Audio Ads

[Buddahaid]

I'm getting audio only ads on two different computers that seem to be related to Subsim. What's going on?

[Onkel Neal]

?? How? Need more information.

[Buddahaid]

Three times today I've had an audio only ad play that doesn't match up with the banner ad. At first I thought it came from photobucket but it just happened on another PC where I don't use pb and it happened right after clicking to refresh GT at Subsim. I'm not saying I know it's Subsim but it's never happened before anywhere without a pop-up creeping through. These have no pop-up windows and were for GM products.

[Wolferz]

That sounds like a very persistent cookie. Or maybe a malicious pop under ad. Have you tried deleting your browser history and cache?

[Buddahaid]

I would think so as well save for two different PC with different cache histories. Well, well, number four just happened and it was for GMAC finance. I had two tabs opened in Chrome and I closed the other one leaving Subsim running. The ad continued to play and I noticed a speaker icon in the tab that went away after it was done. This is certainly coming by way of Subsim or the speaker would have been in the other tab.

[Buddahaid]

Number five just now with only Subsim running. It was a Capital One CC ad and the speaker was again present. The ads may all have been Capital One.

[HW3]

Not happening here.

[Red October1984]

At least they aren't "Meet 1000s Of Singles In Your Area" :shifty:

I hadn't noticed anything like an audio ad. I disable ad block for Subsim sites to help out the site in displaying ads....I use it everywhere else so I'd for sure notice if an ad started playing.

[Jimbuna]

You could consider trying an ad blocking programme.

[Onkel Neal]

Anyone else seeing this? I do not knowingly have anything but a single banner ad.

[kranz]

no audio-ads here. The OP must have been browsing some NSFW/NSFL stuff and now hes blaming our favorite forum.:)

[Moonlight]

None here either, has the OP used something similar to this program adwcleaner_3.311 it works for me and it was recommended by those Win 7 gurus at http://www.sevenforums.com/

[Schroeder]

No audio ads here.

[Rockstar]

Terminate chrome.exe with extreme prejudice
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Iir9LDSl7qI/R6j7okCIvMI/AAAAAAAAMIY/Koyf-hnWiQ4/s400/Picture%252B5X.png

[Buddahaid]

Gone now whatever it was.

[vienna]

I recently had a situation (not on Subsim) where I was hearing an audio track for something I didn't see on my screen. After a bit of sleuthing, it turned out a site I had opened up and left open while I went to another site, had a little video screen way off to one side, a sort of YouTube setup, and, though it showed a still picture when the page was opened, would suddenly start on its own (no click) and run. I have also noted a number of pages where a video will play just after opening the page and, in many of these cases, there is no way to stop the video until it runs its course...


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[Onkel Neal]

If anyone else finds this issue while browsing Subsim, let me know. Otherwise I consider this case closed.