The ads seem to activate automatically. This is a sinister development.

[moondog]

I am plagued by idiots extolling virtues of Dettol and similar while MNing.
Not good.....

Arf! Do you mean ads that pop up. or stuff at the sides of the pages?

The stuff at the side. If the cursor travel over it, it activates even without clicking. I know more tan I ever needed to about John and his indigestion by now.

John and his twin brother James? I feel your pain. They make me stabby and I've never met them.

Being practical, get a Flash blocker which should stop ads auto playing.

Yes. Not all of them though. The EE ad has to be clicked on.

The truth is life is increasingly like a Philip K Dick novel now, and adverts that wake up when you run the cursor over them is pretty much A Standard Thing. Pre-cognition and replicants are not far behind.

Blimey....
It already shows ads in languages I speak. How do the buggers know?

Ah. I have been getting one at the top of my screen (I think it might an ad choices one) in Italian. Which is odd, as I don't speak any Italian!

Perhaps they know something you don't biwi!! They are predicting you will take an Italian night class in 2014.

I started a thread on this recently- it's driving me mad, and crashing my browser constantly

I wish it was dettol- I had "get great sex"!

and Sky - don't have a television...

Moshi monster movie

and other stuff Ive no idea what it's advertising, mostly boots the chemist I think

I have the Italian vistaprint thingy too BIWI!

my browser keeps crashing too. All due to ads.

The worst thing is when I have several tabs open and suddenly an ad starts playing very loudly, and it isn't even on the tab I am reading and I have to frantically check every tab until I find it and can close it. Not impressed at all.

Sorry about this - it shouldn't be happening. We'll get our ad team to track them down and exterminate them

The latest one is 'jump into ireland', a tesco one, bmw

why has this just started happening to me when it has never happened before?
Happily browsing about and laptop starts telling me about lemsip!