That's just it. I NEVER block ads on BYC, pretty much to support the site - but, primarily, because I'm waiting for something to appear on one of these machines, here, in order to replicate other members problems - almost always associated with a specific ad/series of ads. And, I prefer the...
Sorry, can never "assume" competency in these matters so I go a bit overboard (for all I know the member has a "somewhat dead" capacitor on their motherboard causing "irreproducible errors" - the worst kind). Used to use Glary registry cleaner on the XP machine. Another free "cleaner" that has...
O.K., you mentioned, upthread, that you had clicked on the ad itself - and told it not to play - this is usually a way to collect info on the "clicker" by the "clickee" (not much of a neologism, but it will do). BYC has been playing nice, in Chrome, here, for well over a year (no ad blocker...
Did you try this in Chrome? Settings/Advanced Settings/Privacy/Content Settings/Plug-ins/(Adobe Flash: change from default setting to `Click To Play')?