Argh! Make it stop!!! Pop-up ad keeps going forever :-(

This topic was created by Martin Budden .

[Martin Budden]

Argh! Make it stop!!! Pop-up ad keeps going forever :-(

You have a big video pop-up advert which hides the Science page. It happens to be for an S4 but that's not an issue. It pops up on mouse-over of the smaller ad, and the cross-to-close is directly over the smaller ad: this means that when I close the big pop-up, the mouse is still over the smaller ad, so it pops up again, over and over, ad infinitum (pun intended). This is VERY ANNOYING. Even when I did manage to get the pop-up closed and gone eventually, the soundtrack was still playing, from nowhere, which was also VERY ANNOYING. I had to close the browser tab completely to make it stop.

It's one thing to maintain a necessary revenue stream, it's another thing to make the site unusable.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Argh! Make it stop!!! Pop-up ad keeps going forever :-(

Martin, the offending ad is served by Google AdSense in Australia. Ops will email you for more info so we can block it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Not seen any video pop-ups myself - forwarded to ops.

[Martin Budden]

I have received an email from ops. "We do have ad policies that prohibit pop-ups and are strict on user-initiated overlays/expandables (and this ad breaks those policies) so I'm attempting to block this particular ad." This is great to hear, thanks very much for the feedback guys. I understand that it's impossible to vet every ad served by the ad provider and that sometimes a pop-up ad might sneak through: the important thing is that you have a sensible policy in place and that you are willing to take action to enforce it. Thanks!