legant Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Has anyone else been plagued by annoying roving ads on epicurious.com of late? I did a search yesterday and the "take a survey" ad appeared. On. Every. Single. Page. The ad seemed to be sponsored by Epicurious. Is there a way to stop them? (Pop-ups are "off.") Taking the survey didn't do it. I finally gave up and sent an e-mail to the site, complaining about the nasty thing. What about the roll-over ads. Usually the ad is in the right margin so moving between the scroll bar and the search box seems to set it off. I remember one site that had audio. Not only did you get the ad; you also got audio to interrupt browsing. ETA: It seems to have been an anomaly. It's not happening today. At least not yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Slater Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Has anyone else been plagued by annoying roving ads on epicurious.com of late? I did a search yesterday and the "take a survey" ad appeared. On. Every. Single. Page. The ad seemed to be sponsored by Epicurious. Is there a way to stop them? (Pop-ups are "off.") Taking the survey didn't do it.I finally gave up and sent an e-mail to the site, complaining about the nasty thing. What about the roll-over ads. Usually the ad is in the right margin so moving between the scroll bar and the search box seems to set it off. I remember one site that had audio. Not only did you get the ad; you also got audio to interrupt browsing. ETA: It seems to have been an anomaly. It's not happening today. At least not yet. The Firefox browser from Mozilla is my current favorite. It has a nifty add-on called AdBlock that blocks all advertising on webpages. That, plus the pop-up blocker do most of them for me. Try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 epicurious gives you access to a lot of great recipes, but the fucking minefields of fucking ads all over the fucking place is so fucking annoying I say they should fucking go fuck them fucking selves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legant Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share Posted March 10, 2008 epicurious gives you access to a lot of great recipes, but the fucking minefields of fucking ads all over the fucking place is so fucking annoying I say they should fucking go fuck them fucking selves. That's exactly what I said in my e-mail to them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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