Classmates.com
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Category: Site News, Newbies, Help and Improvements
Forum Name: Report bugs here
Forum Description: Help us improve the site from a tech standpoint
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50720
Printed Date: November 29 2024 at 23:53
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Classmates.com
Posted By: johnobvious
Subject: Classmates.com
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 16:11
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This thing has got to go! I hope PA gets paid buckets from this sponsor because they are the biggest pain in the rear I've ever seen. For two months, half the time I hit any link on the site, it brings up a classmates.com screen that I can't get out of. Now today, a big pseudo window is popping up in the forums and you can't get rid of it and it blocks half of the top of the page. Make it stop. Yes, I know the ugly girl married the jock. I don't care. I just ran a search function on classmates.com and came up blank. I can't believe this is only happening to me. ------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
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Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 16:15
I guess I wasn't the only one...I've been getting this annoying stuff for quite some time, but I guess I was to lazy to report anything...and there's also another about netflix
------------- "I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..." |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 17:12
| I've not seen these at all, perhaps you should get Ad Blocker and/or a pop-up blocker. |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 21:31
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Maybe it is a U.S. thing. Do you get the same ads in England as we get here? Does classmates.com have an English division? This thing is Evil, with a capital E. I don't have problems with pop-ups. I click on a link in PA and it stays in PA, but all you get is the big classmates.com ad. The site is bogged down tremendously nowadays and this thing does not help.
------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 15:18
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Great, now Zwinky is doing it. And add Netflix to the list.
------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 18:44
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I never have that problem because I'm running Adblock Plus.
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 18:49
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Download ze Firefox 3 and ze add ons. Like me and Rilerdog did. ------------- 
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Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 18:49
Just curious...where did you get it?  ------------- "I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..." |
rileydog22 wrote:Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 18:51
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 18:51
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http://adblockplus.org/en/ - It's free . You just have to be using Firefox, which I would recommend you do anyway if you aren't doing so now.
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 18:52
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Ummmm, yeah, Harry beat me to it.
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Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 18:56
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Thanks a lot guys. I do use Firefox(way better than IE). Well I'll get it now to stop those annoying adds!!! THANKS!!
------------- "I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..." |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: August 20 2008 at 12:29
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I am on the latest Firefox 2 but will get the 3 and the adblock. I certainly would like to fix it for myself, but I would think the admins would want to fix the underlying problem as well. This certainly can't be good for business.
------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: August 20 2008 at 14:29
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3 is ugly though, so make sure you grab a skin along with it.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 20 2008 at 14:36
I'd love to get in touch with some of my old classmates, if you know what I mean... Nudge nudge, wink wink...  (I mean, obviously, that I'd like to play chess with them.) |
Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 00:00
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Ummm...I got that pop up blocker you mentioned and I still get it. And not only in my computer by in my dad's office computer too.
------------- "I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..." |
Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 03:34
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Hello guys, please confirm that there is still popup because it's not suppose too.
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 03:42
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I have yet to see this pop up. If you have all the nice Firefox add-ons, you shouldn't see anything of the like. Just download NoScript and Ad Block Plus people, and thou shalt be fine. If you have Ad Block already, JUST ADD the offending images, GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs and whatever to your adblock list, that's all you have to do people  -------------
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Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: August 22 2008 at 08:04
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Well there not actuallly pop ups. There simply adds that appear when I click any link on the page(even in the forum). For example...if I click to go to the progressive metal sub genre on the main page instead of showing me that page(the genre page) the add appears. Clearly these adds don't appear all the time...but the times it appears is very frequent and are REALLY annoying.. I doubt that its my computer since like I said before I've been getting it in mine and other computers.
Will try that Harry. I'll post again in the coming days to see if it works.
 ------------- "I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..." |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: August 25 2008 at 16:26
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From what I can tell now, this is not a bug but an authorized deal that PA has instituted. Since after these ads show up you can click on a link called "skip this ad", otherwise you will go to the correct page after a 15 second countdown. If you click "skip this ad" you will go right to the link. Unless someone tells me different, I am assuming this is not a bug. It is not a pop-up, per se. The whole screen has the ad.
------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: August 25 2008 at 18:53
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And by clicking it you've just downloaded gigabytes of spyware into your HD It's not really about having to download all the add-ons and plug-ins to prevent these. I'm lucky enough to not get any of these, probably because I'm not in the US or that i'm using Opera. But I think if they're unwanted here, we shouldn't all have to get add-blockers, but they should be removed... Hmm, all I get is PM spam from 0-posts members at times. |
