Banner Ad Problem

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Bird

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I don't think I've had any problem with the ads on TBN until this morning. But the Lindt chocolate banner ad "Build the perfect Easter Basket" completely blocks things like "Mark All Read".
 
   / Banner Ad Problem #2  
I had to leave TBN for a while, due to some of the banner ads, and the video ads. While I understand ads help pay the bills, and provide a free forum for us, when they become so obtrusive, and so bandwidth intensive that they remove the fun from the forum, they step over the line, and actually hurt participation.

I am lucky. I have not seen the Lindt ad! If I did, I'd probably begin craving dark chocolate, as soon as my blood pressure lowered from the annoyance of the ad!
 
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I'm accustomed to going to TBN several times a day, click on "New Posts", open the ones I want to read in new tabs, then click on "Mark All Read". That ad was preventing me from getting to the "Mark All Read" icon and I could only see the "N" of New Posts. However, I went to do something else and just came back and that banner ad isn't there this time.

And speaking of dark chocolate (which I, too, am fond of), have you tried Braum's "Deep Chocolate" (instead of dark chocolate) ice cream? At least it's a very dark color and I really like it, although my wife doesn't.
 
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Bird
Changing to another subject,but how is your knee replacment working. I had my left one done back in November and so far I'm very pleased with it.
 
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Bird
Changing to another subject,but how is your knee replacment working. I had my left one done back in November and so far I'm very pleased with it.

That banner ad is back again. Remind me to never buy any Lindt chocolate.:laughing:

As for the knee replacement, I had just the right one done on 8/30/2010. I cannot bend that knee quite as far as the original, but otherwise no problem and no pain.
 
   / Banner Ad Problem #6  
Haven't tried the ice cream, bird. I don't eat much ice cream. I don't have a big sweet tooth. I buy the Lindt dark chocolate candy bars, and put them in the freezer. 2 large ones will last a year or more. I just go break off a piece when I get a craving, and leave the rest in the freezer. So, a serving of ice cream once a year is about it for me, if I have that much. If I bought it and brought it home, it would go bad before half the pint was gone!
 
   / Banner Ad Problem #7  
I don't think I've had any problem with the ads on TBN until this morning. But the Lindt chocolate banner ad "Build the perfect Easter Basket" completely blocks things like "Mark All Read".

Bird, there was quite a discussion on the ads a while back... some humorous. But when the risque ads started showing up here and there, I didn't find it very funny. I don't want them on the pages I visit. I use firefox, and downloaded an adblocker that eliminates all of them.
 
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We'll get that ad blocked.
 
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I kept having the same problem with that add yesterday evening.
It is doing it again now.
 

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