Advertisements that make noise without pressing play

[Matthew3590]

I am on the lakenvelder thread and I just clicked on a new page when I noticed there was some lady talking to me. Turned out to be an add by Oranum.com Never even heard of them but it is about psychics?

Will it be a common thing now to have advertisements that will play on their own with sound or is that just an accident, or is there an ability in settings to disable it automatically playing?

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Sorry you had a bad experience with an ad. There should be absolutely no auto-play audio ads showing up on BYC. I've forwarded this along to our ad team to see if they can track it down and find out how it got on the site. Unfortunately it's the nature of the beast with online advertising that sometimes this stuff sneaks through, but we try very hard to not have it happen.

We try VERY hard to find chicken only advertising, but it's very hard to find enough advertisers that are interested in sponsoring a site like BYC. When that happens we need to turn to third parties (like Google AdSense) to supply the ads, and unfortunately we have much less control over what ads they display.

With that said, we're always working very hard to have related and appropriate ads on BYC, so if any member sees an ad that is inappropriate (compared to other sites on the web like Cnn.com Yahoo, etc. please let us know!

If you see this ad again, please take a screenshot so we can more quickly find it and remove it.

Thanks!

 

[Matthew3590]

I found it again. This time it was the same advertisement different person talking about psychics.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

I received a note that these have been found and blocked! If anybody sees ads like this, please alert us immediately.

 

[Matthew3590]

I found another one no less than a minute ago.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Very odd, but we're looking into it.

Anybody else getting these auto-play ads?

 

[Matthew3590]

It may be useful to tell you that they don't immediately start playing. I will be reading a long post in a thread then it will automatically start playing. I never press play.