Audio in banner ads

[Scott DeWar]

Thank you. That was giving some very serious headaches to me. Even while under the medicine!

 

[GandalfMithrandir]

I have an adblocker chrome attachment and at school I always keep the volume muted for occasions such as these

 

[moxcamel]

Got it again.
Went to:

http://localpromotions.info/content/multipromo/index_v5.php?cid=XAJAN2011&audio

And not only does it do that 'Congratulations' very loudly it flashes at a very annoyingly high rate.

See the attachment for what it looks like.

Yep that looks like the one! [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION], thanks for having it blocked.

(and unfortunately for me, blocking sound isn't an option as I need it for my job. :\)

 

[Merkuri]

(and unfortunately for me, blocking sound isn't an option as I need it for my job.

What OS do you have? If the sound you need is not coming from your browser and you have Windows 7 you can mute only the browser and leave your other applications with sound.

 

[moxcamel]

What OS do you have? If the sound you need is not coming from your browser and you have Windows 7 you can mute only the browser and leave your other applications with sound.

Innaresting, I wasn't aware you could mute the browser only in Win 7. I'm actually using Win7, but unfortunately the app I need sound for (system monitoring) is browser-based. Now if I could enable/disable sound on a per-tab basis, that would be pretty cool.

 

[Merkuri]

Now if I could enable/disable sound on a per-tab basis, that would be pretty cool.

I've tried that with Chrome, and it doesn't work well. It may show up twice in the volume control, but muting one doesn't necessarily mute just that one tab.

However, you could use two browsers (like IE and Chrome, or Firefox and Opera), one for work stuff and one for non-work stuff and mute the non-work-stuff browser.

 

[Scott DeWar]

looks like there is another one: Adobe - Flash Player

 

[moxcamel]

Here's another one I just got a few minutes ago. The audio is "Congratulations, you won!"

http:// localpromotions.info/content/multipromo/index_v5.php?cid=XAJAN2011&audio=off

Ironically, the page it takes you to has the "audio=off" tag. (I put a space after the http:// so it's not clickable.) Also, because the actual ad was Flash, I couldn't tell where it was going to take me unless I actually clicked on it. If anyone knows how to find out what the destination is without clicking on a Flash ad, please share.

And here's what it looked like on EnWorld (the one on the left):

ETA: And holy F***, I got this ad again after posting, including the "Congratulations, you won!" audio.

 

[Merkuri]

Wow, I have ads disabled, and I think I still got this (or one similar). I heard the "Congratulations, you won!" audio, and I had no other windows open that normally come with ads.

Edit: It just happened again, and EN World was the only browser tab I had open. I cannot tell where the ad is coming from because I can't see it.

 

[Scott DeWar]

On CM I do not get these ads.