Is everyone else's browser jumping down to the AdBot ad when they open a thread?

[ogneopasno]

Sorry to clutter the forum with this, but it just started and it's bugging me.

[MadinMo]

1. Yes. I thought it was just me.

[ogneopasno]

2. I'm using Safari on a Mac.

You?

[nancyr]

11. Yes....really irritating.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

19. yup

[jhrobbins]

29. Me too and my computer has been acting up, so I thought here we go

[TNDemo]

3. Yes.

Very annoying.

[abbeyco]

4. Yes - horribly annoying

and a seemingly new, yet not valuable addition to the site.

[alfredo]

5. I'm using Safari on a Mac and see no problem. Have you checked the

"Block pop up windows" menu item? It's under the Safari menu.

[ogneopasno]

21. Yep, that's always activated.

It happens on the "Discuss" page too, and I jump down to the ad in the middle of the page.

[alfredo]

38. I have turned off Google Ads. Maybe that's why I don't have the same

problem. I had them turned off in Preferences.

[Brazenly Liberal]

6. Nope. nt

.

[bbrady42]

7. Me too.

In IE 7. It's really annoying.

[alfredo]

8. I wonder if it is a problem that only affects people who haven't donated.

If one of you want, donate to DU, get your star and see if there is a change in behavior of the site. Be sure to let us know. BTW, it doesn't have to be much, five or ten dollars would be appreciated.


BTW, I have no financial stake in this site, I'm just a long time user.

[kick-ass-bob]

10. No star here, and no problem either.

FF 3.0 Win Vista (ugh)

[alfredo]

14. Well, there goes that theory.

[kick-ass-bob]

34. Yeah - I tried it w/ and w/o adblock on.

Same result - no problems.

[alfredo]

39. I've turned on Google ads and I see no change.

[babylonsister]

20. I think you're close to correct. Maybe Vista prevents it, but

most respondents on this thread haven't donated. I'm not having any problems either.

[Blue Diadem]

30. I have Vista.

It's weird because it's not all the time for me. Mine always seems to happen with the cafepress T-shirt ads.

On the "Discuss" page, when the cafepress t-shirt ad appeared in the middle of the page, it would jump to the middle of the page to that ad. Now that another ad appears, the t-shirt ad is in the upper corner and my page drops down just a little instead of down to the middle.

[babylonsister]

31. Do you use Firefox? That could make a difference, too.

I don't know if donating improves your odds of not having this happen, but I'm not having these kinds of problems. :shrug:

[fla nocount]

32. Firefox w/o a star, no problems.

Still using Uncle Bill's browser?

[Blue Diadem]

35. I'm using the dreadful IE

I was on DU for quite a while today before it happened the first time. I wrote about it down thread, when I went to the lounge it happened the first time, went straight to the bottom of a thread. That ad was also that same t-shirt Cafepress ad.

I'm not having it happen now and I'm not seeing that t-shirt ad.

[nykym]

9. Mine was too

found it quite annoying, we into internet connections and just looked around clicked close and it is back to normal. Me thinks someone corrected the problem and it had nothing to do with me. Or it's a republican plot to make us wring our hands over nothing.

[tnlurker]

12. Yes

IE6 here

[SidDithers]

13. Nope...

FF3 here.

Sid

[Blue Diadem]

15. It wasn't earlier, but I went to the lounge and read a few posts and it

began doing it over there.

Weird. My security/anti-virus program caught malware on here the other day too.

[City of Mills]

16. A fix:

Some instructions for Internet Explorer to get around this (use at your own risk of course):

http://www.webhero.org/Browsers/IEActiveXscripts.htm


My page is no longer jumping.

[patrick t. cakes]

17. yes, its annoying

[Northofyou]

18. Haaaaa.... Makes me crazy.... Make it STOP!

Yep, you are not the only one... :-(

[ogneopasno]

22. It happens when I "read all posts" on a thread.

If it's a long thread, with more than 20 responses, the browser has nothing to jump to, but if all the posts are "open," it jumps down to the bottom. Oh, and that ad doesn't load. Help!

[imax2268]

23. dam...

yes I am having this issue as well...irked me so much I made a thread about it...oooops...dupe...

[plcdude]

24. yes this irritating

someone buy me a star and I'll see if it still continues.

[alsame]

25. I have a star and it's jumping for me too.

[ogneopasno]

26. I alerted my own thread, so maybe we'll see what's going on with this.

Thanks for the responses -- kick it if you're having problems; thanks.

[alsame]

27. Follow up: I logged out and then logged in again and it seems

to have stopped jumping for me.

[tyedyeto]

28. Just tried that and it's still jumping n/t

[dhpgetsit]

33. Nope - IE on Windows XP

[Skinner]

36. Does it happen with all ads, or just with a particular ad?

And if it happens with a particular ad, what is the web address (URL) that the ad points to? I can block a particular ad if I know the URL.

[ogneopasno]

37. For me, there doesn't seem to be a pattern.

But the vast majority of AdBot ads that my browser is jumping to don't display at all. When I copy the link of the little bug that seems to be active in a blank box, it gives me this:

j a v a s c r i p t : n o p ( ) ;

Without all the spaces.