MERGED -- "Dragons: Worlds Afire" ad causes horizontal scrollbar

[Steverooo]

I got the Dragons Worlds Afire banner five times in a row just now. Now, it's a Dark Quest Games ad. There is some variety in the ads.

I think another problem is the frequency of the DWA ad. What's with that?

I've gotten the annoying ad nine times in a row, myself...

 

[Agamon]

I don't normally use Adblock on ENWorld (the ads have been fairly unobtrusive), but in this case, I make an exception.

 

[IronWolf]

I use the Flashblock plugin for Firefox. It disables all flash by default, giving you a clickable button to enable specific flash objects in place of the Gargantuan ad banners or what-have-you. It also has a whitelist feature, so you don't have to click the "enable" button every time you want to watch a youtube video (or whatever).

I had wondered what all the fuss was about. I run FlashBlock in FireFox so I haven't seen it yet. Elephant's right - FlashBlock is a great plug-in.

 

[ThirdWizard]

I just got Flashblock. It's still stretching the screen for me, though. It's just a white bar now instead of pretty.

 

[jeffh]

I use the Flashblock plugin for Firefox. It disables all flash by default, giving you a clickable button to enable specific flash objects in place of the Gargantuan ad banners or what-have-you. It also has a whitelist feature, so you don't have to click the "enable" button every time you want to watch a youtube video (or whatever).

What version are you using? I just installed it, and like the person who replied just above, the only difference it makes is that I get a white bar instead of the ad. It's not the ad as such that I care about, it's the fact that it's forcing a scroll bar.

 

[Orius]

Yup, it's been providing annoyance to me as well, ranking somewhere below a hangnail. I found that refreshing the browser might get rid of it (sometimes it doesn't want to go away) on my, but an extra long banner is annoying, even when I have screen resolution set at 1024x768.

 

[Agamon]

What version are you using? I just installed it, and like the person who replied just above, the only difference it makes is that I get a white bar instead of the ad. It's not the ad as such that I care about, it's the fact that it's forcing a scroll bar.

Adblock Plus. I find it way better than Adblock, especially for blocking some content on a site rather than all of it.

 

[Agamon]

As an aside, one thing about Flash not many people know about: by default, Flash allows sites that you haven't visted to store content on your PC. You can go here to fix that.

 

[Elephant]

What version are you using? I just installed it, and like the person who replied just above, the only difference it makes is that I get a white bar instead of the ad. It's not the ad as such that I care about, it's the fact that it's forcing a scroll bar.

Flashblock 1.5.1 and Adblock Plus 0.7

Adblock has an option to leave the empty space where it removes ads or to snip the affected area out of the page entirely. There's a setting in the Extensions box to change the behavior.

 

[jeffh]

Flashblock 1.5.1 and Adblock Plus 0.7

Adblock has an option to leave the empty space where it removes ads or to snip the affected area out of the page entirely. There's a setting in the Extensions box to change the behavior.

Ah. Adblock must be doing most of the heavy lifting, because Flashblock alone just isn't cutting it.