STUFF/Panasonic Blocking Pop-Up

[relocated]

What's with this recent full screen pop-up? It repeatedly blocks you from the seeing the content you came on the site for.

Does anyone think this is a positve thing to keep happening to visitors? For me, at least, the last thing I am going to do is want to have anything to do with whatever such a persistant nuisance is trying to promote.

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[Andy Clough]

Click it once and it shouldn't appear again. The ad allows you to customise the feeds you see in the box on the Homepage, but having done it once I haven't been served it since.

 

[relocated]

Click it once and it shouldn't appear again. The ad allows you to customise the feeds you see in the box on the Homepage, but having done it once I haven't been served it since.

Thanks for the reply Andy.

However this thing keeps coming up, I suppose because I deselect it with the -X- button in the corner. I have an aversion to going into something because it is the only way of keeping something at bay. This morning it came up 5 times in a row blocking me from initial viewing and replying on the forum. Entirely counter-productive.

 

[DrMadvibe]

That popup is intensely annoying. It pops up on almost every and even when altering a filter. I've clicked the cross, tried chosing one/several options but it makes no difference. This is a very bad user experience. I build websites and I would never inflict this on my users.

 

[Dave_]

What pop-up?

 

[DrMadvibe]

In the right hand column on many pages you can see a 'Stuff Promotion' prompting you to choose from 8 boxes and keep 'everything in one place'.

This ad also pops up in front of you on a great many pages obscuring the page until you close it. It even reappears if you use a filter on the same page e.g. reviews. Plus, even when I did try to select a box, nothing seemed to happen anyway.

Having said that, it's calmed down a bit now.

 

[bigboss]

Which browser are you using?

 

[Andrew Everard]

I haven't seen this pop-up at all, but then I am in Germany and the site doesn't seem to be serving any ads at all, which is unusual...

 

[The_Lhc]

I've only seen it once, when I went to the home page a couple of days ago. I'm not seeing any ads at the moment either.

 

[relocated]

Just to update. The pop-up has disappeared now. I use Chrome, BB, but don't understand how some haven't seen it at all. But then I dont understand computers anyway.

 

[Andy Clough]

If you're seeing the ad repeatedly it may be because you have your cookies disabled. Otherwise you should only see it once at the start of each user session.

 

[bigboss]

Worth trying this on Chrome:

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95472

 

[MajorFubar]

I guess there'll never be a time when we'll see the major browsers equipped with a really good ad-blocker as standard. I use AdBlock for Safari and it works great. I suppose a built-in ad-blocker would be as frowned-upon as Akai's video recorder from the late 80s that removed adverts during recording, which if I recall correctly was banned from sale in the UK.

 

[relocated]

If you're seeing the ad repeatedly it may be because you have your cookies disabled. Otherwise you should only see it once at the start of each user session.

I have cookies enabled but not for third party cookies because I do not see why, who knows who should put cookies on my computer if I have not gone to their site by choice. When I first disabled third party cookies, What Hifi was the only site I visit that wouldn't work properly although that cleared up after a day or so.

The site does seem t be working much faster now. Have you managed to get rid of all that spam?