Super Aggressive Full Screen Ads Now?

[tehachapifan]

For the past couple days, I've been getting full page ads when I click on various TRW forums. They take up almost the entire screen and the TRW page blurs into the background. These ads will be from all kinds of places, but MB Klein seems to be one of the most common. A lot of the time, there's no "X" to click to close the ad. Anyone else getting these?

[Jbub]

I've been getting them as well. I understand that the ads produce revenue to operate the website, but wow, have they become increasingly obtrusive with top banner, bottom banner, low drop down, and sidebar ads present at all times and now the full screen ads popping up every 10 clicks or so. Maybe Tom should really introduce a Plaid membership to get rid of the ads.

[Chris333]

For me they are pop up ads in a separate smaller window with the Railwire blurred in the background. There is an X to click, but also a slider that counts down 30 seconds. But after the 30 seconds the ads is still there. So far 2 Lowes ads and one other I don't remember.

[bbussey]

Yup. Super annoying.

[signalmaintainer]

That's why I use Duck Duck Go when I come here. I'm willing to pay to help Railwire keep operating, but I am tired of intrusive ads.

[C855B]

Undoubtedly something new that Google Ads has stuffed down everybody's throats without notice. Tom will have to do whatever magic is required in the control panel to cut this crap off at the knees.

[amato1969]

AdBlock Plus browser extension takes care of them...

[ednadolski]

I thought it was an NHL TV broadcast, since I could not see any players or puck... just the ads.

Ed

[TrainCat2]

I clicked on the link to this topic in recent posts and got a full page eBay ad. Talk about insult to injury.

Well, I pay $20/yr to be able to post and enjoy RCScaleBuilder without any ads. If you don’t want to post, it’s free to join. To login and use the amenities, you have to be a paying member. I bit the bullet and bought the lifetime membership and for Scale RC, best money I ever spent. Tom, sign me up if you go the $$ route.

[nickelplate759]

Started for me mid-last week, on Android w/Chrome.  So far it hasn't shown up on Windows w/Chrome.  Super annoying.  If it weren't TRW I'd have just quit the site.

[CBQ Fan]

 Have seen them also, not a fan.

[thomasjmdavis]

Started for me mid-last week, on Android w/Chrome.  So far it hasn't shown up on Windows w/Chrome.  Super annoying.  If it weren't TRW I'd have just quit the site.

Is this showing up on PCs, or just phones?

I am not seeing it on my PC, but do have the security filters turned up pretty high on firefox, run Linux, and wipe all the cookies every time I shut down the browser.

[Jbub]

It's on pc and mobile. I've had it happen on firefox and chrome and I do not use any ad blockers for TRW so revenue can be generated for maintenance.

[mu26aeh]

Was only seeing it on mobile, but now popping up on the desktop today.  rrpicturearchives has had them like this for a while, so new to here but I'm used to them

[Chris333]

I'm used to them

 

I used the computer at work the other day and kept yelling "how do people even use the internet this way".