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  • Chrissi
    FFR Player
    • Mar 2004
    • 3019
    #1

    What in the world is this?

    Randomly when I'm on this forum, some webpages will play music at me...

    This is incredibly annoying. Is it one of the ads? It's techno-type music that sounds like something I'd hear in FFR. And no, I don't have FFR open.... and when I close the forum page, the music stops.

    I don't really know where else to post this. It's INCREDIBLY irritating for webpages to play music without me asking them to. I often listen to music on my computer, and it interferes with it, or maybe my sound is way up and I'm not expecting anything, and suddenly it just plays...

    The first time it happened was a few days ago, and it just happened again right now, when I had my Control Panel open.
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    • I_hate_arrays
      FFR Player
      • Feb 2008
      • 3
      #2
      Re: What in the world is this?

      You're lucky.
      I just get forcefully redirected recently to some ads from the front page, levelrank, and forums.

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        • Tokzic
          FFR Player
          • May 2005
          • 6878
          #3
          Re: What in the world is this?

          yeah it's almost like the forum is updated with the most up-to-date and current annoying gimmick ads to piss people off

          Last edited by Tokzic: Today at 11:59 PM. Reason: wait what

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            • OrganisM
              FFR Player
              • Oct 2006
              • 2644
              #4
              Re: What in the world is this?

              I personally just subscribe and don't have to deal with it.

              I do a double subscription. FFR accidentally started charging me monthly in addition to yearly, and I left it that way because I'd rather support FFR.

              I suggest some of you do the same. It's not that expensive, though I won't preach at you. /shrug

              Ask synth or something I guess.
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                • foilman8805
                  smoke wheat hail satin
                  FFR Simfile Author
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 5704
                  #5
                  Re: What in the world is this?

                  I think this happened to Patashu awhile ago...

                  I've heard of this problem though, and I don't really know what to say. He hasn't said anything about it recently, so I guess the problem went away for him.

                  EDIT:

                  ffr is stalking the forums - Flash Flash Revolution
                  http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=104008
                  Last edited by foilman8805; 03-13-2009, 11:15 PM.

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                    • Crashfan3
                      FFR Player
                      • Nov 2006
                      • 2937
                      #6
                      Re: What in the world is this?

                      I've had this happen too, except an infomercial thing starts playing. I'll be reading along and all of the sudden...

                      The following advertisement is brought to you by [insert stalker here]...

                      I scroll all around looking for an ad to block, but nothing. And it's not my computer, because it ONLY does this on the FFR forums.

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                        • Flandre Scarlet
                          Death
                          • Feb 2008
                          • 903
                          #7
                          Re: What in the world is this?

                          I once encountered this on FFR on Firefox last summer, but I haven't had it happen again. Even back then, it only occurred maybe 2-3 times on one day, then stopped. I also got what Crashfan got during that time also, but that only happened twice.
                          Playing FFR/Lurking around the forums since Dec. 2004

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                            • DarkManticoreX2
                              TWG Overlord
                              • Apr 2005
                              • 7355
                              #8
                              Re: What in the world is this?

                              I absolutly hate having to wait to browse the forum because some idiot wants me to see a zwinki ad.
                              I also hate being re-directed to Cash4gold dot com without clicking anything.
                              I also hate "CONGRATULATIONS YOUR A WINNER" suprising me out of the speakers when im trying to be sneaky and peek into ffr when im at work.

                              These ads must go. I know it's not what you're talking about, but it's similar in nature.

                              Oh yeah go play emotions in ffr and see if it's the same song. dance 1 genre
                              Last edited by DarkManticoreX2; 03-14-2009, 12:22 AM.
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                              Originally posted by V
                              Manti, I apologize for insulting you. Let the record show that I am a prickass douche, and not only that, but that I am a terrible player.

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                                • Zageron
                                  Zageron E. Tazaterra
                                  FFR Administrator
                                  • Apr 2007
                                  • 6592
                                  #9
                                  Re: What in the world is this?

                                  Subscribe + adblok ftw :3

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                                    • DarkManticoreX2
                                      TWG Overlord
                                      • Apr 2005
                                      • 7355
                                      #10
                                      Re: What in the world is this?

                                      Originally posted by Zageron
                                      Subscribe + adblok ftw :3
                                      Regular users shouldn't be punished with annoying ads just because they don't feel like shelling out money each year. subscribing was supposed to be a way of supporting ffr, not hiding from ads.
                                      AAA's = 800

                                      Originally posted by V
                                      Manti, I apologize for insulting you. Let the record show that I am a prickass douche, and not only that, but that I am a terrible player.

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                                        • Zageron
                                          Zageron E. Tazaterra
                                          FFR Administrator
                                          • Apr 2007
                                          • 6592
                                          #11
                                          Re: What in the world is this?

                                          Originally posted by DarkManticoreX2
                                          Regular users shouldn't be punished with annoying ads just because they don't feel like shelling out money each year. subscribing was supposed to be a way of supporting ffr, not hiding from ads.
                                          Well maybe Synth Needs to have these annoying adds.
                                          Think about the site population vs the income off of not-so-annoying adds.

                                          :\

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                                            • Tokzic
                                              FFR Player
                                              • May 2005
                                              • 6878
                                              #12
                                              Re: What in the world is this?

                                              Originally posted by Zageron
                                              Well maybe Synth Needs to have these annoying adds.
                                              funny, other sites with less traffic seem to do just fine with less intrusive ads

                                              Last edited by Tokzic: Today at 11:59 PM. Reason: wait what

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                                                • DarkManticoreX2
                                                  TWG Overlord
                                                  • Apr 2005
                                                  • 7355
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: What in the world is this?

                                                  Synth does not need those specific ads. They don't directly pay ffr. If you had any idea of how advertising works on the internet, you would know that websites like ffr are paid by a service to host a bundle of ads (think of it like someone giving you a sack with 200,000 ads and everytime someone loads a page one of those ads gets displayed). FFR isn't payed by each individual company in the ad bar (not directly at least)

                                                  Synth can go into that bundle and delete the ads he doesn't want to display. Thats how he got rid of the some of the more questionable ads when ads were first implimented. Synth gets paid reguardless of if those 6 or 7 ads show.
                                                  Last edited by DarkManticoreX2; 03-14-2009, 01:06 AM.
                                                  AAA's = 800

                                                  Originally posted by V
                                                  Manti, I apologize for insulting you. Let the record show that I am a prickass douche, and not only that, but that I am a terrible player.

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                                                    • qqwref
                                                      stepmania archaeologist
                                                      FFR Simfile Author
                                                      • Aug 2005
                                                      • 4092
                                                      #14
                                                      Re: What in the world is this?

                                                      I think I remember Synth saying something a while ago about how he'd remove ads that were redirecting people or being really annoying, but that he just didn't know which ones they were. So if you can isolate the ad that's doing the redirecting or music, try sending an e-mail to Synth... it can't hurt. I think he'd like to have only non-annoying ads as much as everyone else would.
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                                                        • Crashfan3
                                                          FFR Player
                                                          • Nov 2006
                                                          • 2937
                                                          #15
                                                          Re: What in the world is this?

                                                          Originally posted by Zageron
                                                          Subscribe + adblok ftw :3
                                                          What I was talking about in post #6 was happening while I was a subscriber, over the last six months of 2008.

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