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banner ads at the bottom of the screen?
« on: October 30, 2012, 23:22:22 pm »
In the last couple of days I noticed that there seem to be banner ads at the bottom of every page I visit in BW.  And some of them talk to me when I open the page.  Is this happening to anybody else?

happening in both IE and firefox. 

attaching screenshots.... (and yes I know I keep a ridiculous number of tabs open!   :-[ :P ;D )
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Re: banner ads at the bottom of the screen?
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2012, 13:37:27 pm »
That looks like something on your machine - I don't see it on any of my machines. Do you see it on any other websites? Have you run a virus scan recently?

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Re: banner ads at the bottom of the screen?
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2012, 19:05:00 pm »
None for me Jamie!

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Re: banner ads at the bottom of the screen?
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2012, 19:06:08 pm »
None for me either - but I do have the same tab situation ;)

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Re: banner ads at the bottom of the screen?
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2012, 19:44:19 pm »
You haven't seen tabs until you have seen Tom's computer lol

No banners here (work) or at home either. 
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Re: banner ads at the bottom of the screen?
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2012, 21:54:27 pm »
Nope, no ads here, but I have adblock installed too.

And my DH always tells me off about the number of tabs I have
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Re: banner ads at the bottom of the screen?
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2012, 00:56:25 am »
ah ha...it would appear I had a little tagalong when I grabbed the YouTube downloader.  thought I had managed to escape them all, but guess not!  It would appear to be gone now.  ;)
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Re: banner ads at the bottom of the screen?
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2012, 00:58:30 am »
Man those things are so invasive!  Glad you caught it!
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Re: banner ads at the bottom of the screen?
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2012, 11:56:46 am »
Glad you found it :)

And Amanda, what does your DH have against tabs? If you can keep them somewhat organised, and you have enough memory on your computer, go for it I say.

I pretty much always have more than 25, sometimes more than 50. I haven't reached 100 yet :)

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Re: banner ads at the bottom of the screen?
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2012, 20:30:54 pm »
Tom, you are my hero ;)

I think it's the sys admin in him.  Doesn't like stuff using more memory than it needs to
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