All of a sudden CarTalk is looking like a click bait site. The pop-ups just keep coming.

Where on the screen do the ads appear? I haven’t noticed any new ad placement strategy, but I’ve noticed in recent weeks the ads that appear in between the posts are now changing size more often, and when they do it makes the postings move up and down and become very hard to read through the …

There was a banner across the bottom and a very annoying video coming in from the right side. If you clicked it off, it came right back. I’m not seeing right now though.

I see them also, on desktop and mobiles. Pop-up blockers enabled on all.

[image] keith: If you clicked it off, it came right back. Happened yesterday I think, I just exited out and pulled it right back up and they are gone…

Clicking the X or ‘Close Ad’ fields in the corner of some ads only TAKES YOU TO some fo the ads, not close them.

It’s a wildly spammy platform. I’m sure I should change browsers or settings or whatever. But I’m on quite a few sites. This one ranks up there with the worst.

@keith All of a sudden CarTalk is looking like a click bait site. The pop-ups just keep coming. Are you running with the Chrome browser? If so, I wonder if the sudden change you’re experiencing is due to this recent change, and that you began seeing it once your browser got updated: https://ww…

I use AdBlock Plus with both Firefox and Safari and have no problems.

Keith (post 3 above) says: There was a banner across the bottom and a very annoying video coming in from the right side. If you clicked it off, it came right back. If scrolling moves the banner up/down along with the posts, that’s an in-between posts ad. Those are just the price of admission. Li…

What is with the ads all of a sudden?

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davesmopar July 13, 2024, 10:57pm 3

Loosely being talked about here…

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What is with the ads all of a sudden?

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