Annoying add

[alexman]

Take a look at the following screenshot.

Not only is it a flat-out lie (I have been the 1,000,000th visitor three times already today ), but there is no way to close it (short of hitting refresh).

Please get rid of it.

[Hueij]

lucky man. I never win anything

[DrSpike]

Damn PLUS account. I wanted to be the 1,000,000th user.

[Snowflake]

I think there is a close X button kind of thing in the upper right corner.

[alexman]

Yes, you're right. Thanks!
I'll try it next time I win.

[Japher]

Also, it disappears after a few minutes... I know this because it took me that long to read it.

[Dinner]

Is there a way to preemptively prevent them from appearing?

[DrGerry]

Yes: SP2

[GeoModder]

Really?

[Snowflake]

I'd say AP.

[Alex]

I'd say Firefox. Or Opera.

[Sabre2th]

It also shows up in Opera.

[Atahualpa]

Ads like these make people get adblockers. The advertisment business ruins itself that way.

I have an adblocker for myself, that kills most of the ads. But since I wanted to support Apolyton I am glad that there is the PLUS option.

[johndmuller]

I have lately been getting annoying ads seemingly along these lines, but ....

• they are moderately large opaque ads blocking most of whatever is underneath them;
• they do not have an X (close) clickpoint on the upper right (or anywhere else); instead, they have a white band across the top of the ad containing only the word 'false' on the left;
• they cannot be moved, minimized, etc.;
• they do not go away by themselves, although they do not necessarily reappear on a refresh or a return after going to another page.

These things tend to appear early in my Poly sessions, quite often blocking the newest topics on a forum thread-list. Perhaps they are supposed to have a normal title bar, but are defective or otherwise unprepared for something in my setup (which on this computer however, is not atm the newest, but is nevertheless quite plain vanilla Win2K IE5.0). Fortunately they do not recur frequently after that, or else I would soon become a very infrequent visitor.

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On a slightly related subject (related mostly because it happened when following Ming's link to this thread from the now closed related thread) I have been experiencing the following defective behavior for some months now:
--When following a link from an email (subscription message) and/or a link to another thread which opens a new window, Poly seems to forget that I am logged in and does not seem to properly check for the appropriate cookie(s) -which btw I am not blocking- having the effect that it loses track of my identity, profile, etc. and I am seemingly viewed as a guest instead of a member, unable to post or do other stuff in that window. Since most of these screens seem to not be equipped with the provision for logging in, I have to close the new window and navigate to the relevant page on my own so that my credentials will be picked up.
What gives with this?

[Adagio]

Advertising is just getting worse

I read yesterday that some Swedish (I think) people did a study on the internet and came to the conclusion that if things doesn't change soon, the Internet as we know it will "self-destruct" in about 2 years because of all these popup ads and spam you get in email