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DEAR AUDIOGON STAFF: Please remove/fix floating ads that block what we are reading!!!

DEAR AUDIOGON STAFF: Please remove/fix floating ads that block what we are reading!!!

Even on a high-rez MacOSX laptop, I've noticed as of late that in addition to all the ads previously added to Audiogon pages from all sorts of sponsors and vendors plus the unwanted long list of certain dealers ads taking precedence in the search results (they should have no more or less priority in results than any other ad that fits the criteria), we seem to have a new form of ad on this forum namely, ads that sit right over part of the topic or other posting you happen to be reading. This type of fly-over/pop-over ad is not uncommon in web UI development but they always have a close button of some form. The new ones here do not and they don't adjust as you scroll up or down either.

Audiogon Staff; Please fix this! I realize this is primarily a buy/sell forum and your business model has changed to favor sponsors, dealers and other advertisers of value to you but it is also about exchange of ideas and helping others in this hobby in various ways; that is very hard to do or to read someone's posted response when 1/4 to 1/3 of the right hand side of the entire posting is obliterated by an ad that won't go away.

Thank you.
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sfar
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I visit Audiogon almost daily on either an iMac or a Macbook Air, both running OSX 10.12.2 Sierra with Chrome as my usual browser. I've never seen any of the ad behavior you're describing.

I don't have Firefox installed but did test extensively this morning using Safari and still didn't have any of those issues.
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p.s. -- I do have anti-virus software installed, Sophos, but no ad-blocking software. (Having managed a very large site for several years I understand more than most the need for ad revenue, especially on a site that is free to users. Sure, many of them are annoying but, then, so are most ads on TV.)
dbtom2
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I have also experienced the issue brought up by@zephyr24069. It is inconsistent and I haven't noticed it happening since the OP.

Sometimes the "Sponsored Content" rectangle ads runneth over the listings. It was annoying but I found that if I hovered the cursor over the listing, I could read it/select it. 


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dbtom2: Thanks for your comment that you've seen this too recently. It seems to no longer occur in the last 24 hours or thereabouts.

All: Thank you for the comments and recommendations. I will check out Ghostery and see if it it is compatible/allowed by our IT image.  I do clear my cache and cookies frequently throughout the day so I doubt that is the cause but some new type of pop-over/fly-over ad misbehaving is probably to blame.  

I know support has told me they don't own this and it is the result of some advertiser's ad behavior but one would think it would be something that people would want to watch over how things behave for the good of their long-term users not just the most recent contributing money at the trough :-) 
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This just happened to me now . Box said one question site survey . As i scrolled it followed . Then  vanished . Something fishy going down here 
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