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Tyrantrum July 14th, 2010 8:15 PM

what is this i don't even
 
Okay, some words in posts, VMs, board descriptions, etc. anywhere on the forum are highlighted green with it underlined twice. When you hover over the word, it has an advertisement pop up.

I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing this or is it just me?

Charizard★ July 14th, 2010 8:17 PM

Same with me but blue. It hasn't happened recently though.

Astinus July 14th, 2010 8:25 PM

Those are off-site advertisements, or something of the sort. That's all I can tell you. Don't know why they were added.

I can tell you that in order to disable them, click on the question mark in the right-hand corner of the pop-up ad (when you hover over the word). It'll bring you to another site where you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and click "Disable ads". You might have to do it a few times for it to finally stick, but that'll end them appearing all over the place.

Bay July 14th, 2010 8:42 PM

Hm, I brought the advertising highlight thing up a while back and I thought the staff took care of that in that all members won't have that problem and only the guests. Looks like it's coming back now. O.o I can say though I'm not experiencing that (yet).

Like Asintus said, best way is to disable the ads. I think the staff might be able to get rid of the ads (at least for members) like before.

LightOfTruth February 2nd, 2011 9:34 AM

This stupid thing is on my account. I don't see why as I'm not a guest :)

Massacre. February 2nd, 2011 9:43 AM

Happens to me too. Chances are that it happens to admins :(.

xEoNx February 2nd, 2011 9:50 AM

I use Google chrome now and it doesn't happen to me anymore.

Cherrim February 2nd, 2011 9:53 AM

I... definitely haven't seen anything and I haven't heard that it was turned back on for members or anything but Steve also doesn't really tell us these things. :p

Regardless, until he can give an answer either way here, just disable them as needed.

Rukario February 2nd, 2011 10:00 AM

It may depend on what PC style/theme you are using.. some themes do not have the usergroup limited codes added to them..

Graphical February 2nd, 2011 10:10 AM

It happened for me while I was using the 'Dimensional Rift' skin. I have sinced change to 'The Johto Elite' and it doesn't happen anymore. It must be the way the skins are designed.

Vrai February 2nd, 2011 10:58 AM

I've had that before, and afaik my problem was that it was actually a virus-adbot sort of thing... It did that with most of the sites I visited on IE. Maybe you should double-check and make sure you don't have anything like that?

LightOfTruth February 2nd, 2011 11:04 AM

Its still like that on The Johto Elite

donavannj February 2nd, 2011 12:29 PM

What tier supporter do you have to be not see those ads? Is it just supporters in general that don't see these ads? I as because I don't remember ever seeing these ads on any style other than Route 167, which is what I'm using right now.

Rukario February 2nd, 2011 12:43 PM

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If it looks like the image attached, then it is NOT a virus.. it is a context/keyword based ad (text or image/flash) that should, on most skins, display for unregistered/not logged in users. As stated above, you can block em or just ignore them if they are not of interest to you.

moon February 2nd, 2011 1:17 PM

They are advertisements, just like ad banners. I'm using Firefox with AdBlock Plus, so I'm not seeing them.

Graphical February 3rd, 2011 10:06 AM

After a bit of testing on words it happens to on this very thread, it seems like depending on the skin, the advertisements are on different words. They've been getting really distracting lately though. It looks like they got bigger.

Babebraham February 3rd, 2011 10:10 AM

It shows the blue thing in the first post!

LightOfTruth February 3rd, 2011 11:27 AM

Its annoying but at least I have adblock so I can't see them :)

olih February 3rd, 2011 4:41 PM

I didn't know you could actually change skins. How do you do that?

Astinus February 3rd, 2011 7:46 PM

Two ways.

1.) Look down at the lower left portion of the page you're on, all the way down at the bottom. There's a drop-down menu there with all the skin options. Select from there and change them around to see which one looks best to you.

2.) User CP -> Edit Options. On that screen, close to the bottom, there's an option there to change the forum style under "Miscellaneous Options". Same drop-down menu.

If you go to the main page of your User Control Panel, there's a box that says "Switch Forum Style". Once you click on that, you'll see thumbnails for all the skins, so you can get a quick glimpse of how the skins look.

hth

PokéSwimmer February 4th, 2011 5:17 PM

These in-text ads are really starting to get on my nerves, does anyone know of a way to disable them, or perhaps an ad blocker for Chrome that can disable them?

Ninja Caterpie February 4th, 2011 9:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PokéSwimmer (Post 6436997)
These in-text ads are really starting to get on my nerves, does anyone know of a way to disable them, or perhaps an ad blocker for Chrome that can disable them?

You could try this. It blocks a lot of stuff.

Rukario February 5th, 2011 12:40 AM

or simply switch skins to one that has them properly disabled for registered users.

EDIT: I fixed rt 167's skin.. If there is another one doing this, let me know what skin you're using and I'll check it out.


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