Harry Potter Ads?

[Hygro]

So here I am trying hard to live life normally, while avoiding images of Harry Potter movies because I love the books too much (I want to read all of them before seeing the movies) and now the takeover ads are for Harry Potter. What horror!

Worst of all, I click to continue to the site and it doesn't load up right away, so here I am looking at some actors trying to ruin my images of the characters!

 

[Ankka]

Try and use some other browser with popup blocking?

 

[The Last Conformist]

If you're using MSIE, get Google Toolbar.

 

[MarineCorps]

Try and use some other browser with popup blocking?

How would that stop the takeover ads?

@Hygro: I don't think TF has much say in what the ads are for.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Which are takeover ads?

 

[Dell19]

The ones that load once a day instead of the page you asked for and then you have to click continue to go to the page that you wanted. You could just click stop as soon as you see the advert appearing and then click on continue.

 

[The Last Conformist]

I never seem to see those anymore. Assumed it had something to do with switching to Firefox.

 

[Ankka]

I saw them when I used to use MSIE at school, but at home the Mozilla Firefox blocks them.

 

[hbdragon88]

I think the takeover ads rely on the cookie - it gets the cookie and looks if it's been 24 hours or not. But if it can't access the cookie then it can't show the ad, and both Firefox and Opera store their cookies in a "cookie.dat" or something like that, not an text cookie (like IE).

 

[Gogf]

The takeover ad used to stop me from getting into CFC until I got Firefox.

 

[KaNick]

It's strange. I get takeover ads on other sites, like IGN. But I never get them here.