[dprozzo]

Who took such leave of their senses that they would place such an obnoxious Macromedia ad for Apple on the PCWorld Homepage? It is loud, unintelligable and makes the rest of the page unnavigable. The pause button doesn't work. Any more crap like that and I will be a complete stranger to PCWorld. I understand that ads are needed for revenue, but how about a little respect for your visitors? David

[KellieCM]

Hi dprozzo --

I haven't seen it yet, but I'll contact our ad ops group to make sure that it's working as it is supposed to.

[smax013]

dprozzo said:

Who took such leave of their senses that they would place such an obnoxious Macromedia ad for Apple on the PCWorld Homepage? It is loud, unintelligable and makes the rest of the page unnavigable. The pause button doesn't work. Any more crap like that and I will be a complete stranger to PCWorld. I understand that ads are needed for revenue, but how about a little respect for your visitors? David

Are you sure it is an ad done by PCWorld? I believe there are ways for others to insert ads over other people's website. I only ask this because I get no such ad when I go to the PCWorld home page. And all the ads that I get are done with Adobe Flash, not Macromedia. And none have sound. The most annoying "ad" that I have had on the PCWorld site is the stupid subscription "floating" box that pops up some times...and...thank you, but I already have a subscription. It is annoying to have to hit the stupid moving target.

[TechyGuy]

I believe that you are talking of the Macintosh ad that takes up the right and top adspaces on PC where the top adspace says "Don't give up on Vista", along with Vistaguy and Macguy on the far right adspace. I have had no problems that pertain to this advertisement. However, the ad you speak of does not seem to be the Mac ad that I have seen on the PCW homepage.

[dprozzo]

You may be right, that it was a Flash media, not Macromedia. I've heard of what you mentioned - ads being placed on top of what the what the web page owner intended - but I don't know how to determine that. It seems possibly because the page virtually locked up and I can't imagine PCWorld placing an ad that would cause this. For now, what I saw before is gone and instead is an (relatively) unobtrusive ad for Samsung.

[KellieCM]

There was an Apple ad there this morning. It appeared to me to be malfunctioning. I sent a note to AdOps as I said I would. It appears to not be there anymore. I'm not in the office today, so I don't know what all is going on with it currently.

[SoahmZ]

" that it was a Flash media, not Macromedia"
Flash is a program that was developed by Macromedia.
Macromedia Flash was sold to Adobe Systems, and now its called Adobe Flash.

[KellieCM]

The ad has been fixed (and we were not the only site that had a problem with it) and will be running occasionally over the next month or so.

[snorg]

Well, if ads bother you then you can get an ad blocker and you wont see anymore ads.
Thats what I do, not because I hate ads, but cuz all I got is 28.8 dialup so I must block ads otherwise it takes forever for web pages to download.