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Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
56,733
Faversham
I have suddenly started getting sound adverts (two for Amazon) when looking at NSC. The only way to stop them is to refresh. And then minutes later they start again. Weird.

Calling @Bozza
 




Bozza

You can change this
Helpful Moderator
Jul 4, 2003
57,543
Back in Sussex
Is it also a visible banner? If so, where?

I'm pretty sure I know what it will be, as I've only made one change to NSC in the last six months or so, and it was on Monday afternoon.

The change should only impact a small number of NSCers, and certainly not patrons.

I can quickly remedy that however - I’ll do some testing of my own.
 




WASH

Well-known member
Jul 6, 2003
288
Rustington
Same for me, cuts out my listening to the radio on an app on my phone as soon as I click into a topic. Never done this before today.
 


Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee

You can't change fighters
NSC Patron
Jul 25, 2005
10,918
on a pig farm
Getting repetitive music whenever I open a thread
 








Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
When I click reply (for this example) or a reaction, I’m getting a 1 second blast like a jingle.
 












WASH

Well-known member
Jul 6, 2003
288
Rustington
The change is so those who ad-block relentlessly, and haven't white-listed NSC, contribute to the running of the site.
But this issue is only happening on my phone which isn't running an ad-blocker! PC seems fine as I can still play You Tube music etc in the background without them stopping while viewing NSC.
 


Bozza

You can change this
Helpful Moderator
Jul 4, 2003
57,543
Back in Sussex
But this issue is only happening on my phone which isn't running an ad-blocker! PC seems fine as I can still play You Tube music etc in the background without them stopping while viewing NSC.
If you have ad banners on NSC pages on your phone then that probably shouldn't happen.

What I don't know is how the Adblock-detector tech works. It's clearly not perfect because NSC Patrons were getting hit, something I've been able to test and confirm.

So if the Adblock-detector says "Are there any ad banners being rendered?" and, if not, does its thing then that would explain why Patrons were getting hit. I can fix that easily.

If people aren't ad-blocking, and do have ad banners on their page then it shouldn't happen. But I can take that up with the vendor to investigate.
 


Nobby Cybergoat

Well-known member
Jul 19, 2021
8,767
If you have ad banners on NSC pages on your phone then that probably shouldn't happen.

What I don't know is how the Adblock-detector tech works. It's clearly not perfect because NSC Patrons were getting hit, something I've been able to test and confirm.

So if the Adblock-detector says "Are there any ad banners being rendered?" and, if not, does its thing then that would explain why Patrons were getting hit. I can fix that easily.

If people aren't ad-blocking, and do have ad banners on their page then it shouldn't happen. But I can take that up with the vendor to investigate.
I've never used an ad blocker and still have the advert noise and audio symbol appear on the tab if that helps with your conversation
 




Tim Over Whelmed

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 24, 2007
10,673
Arundel
Thought you were talking about the new Jaguar advert!
 


Titanic

Super Moderator
Helpful Moderator
Jul 5, 2003
39,964
West Sussex
Just a note... I discovered the AVAST package I have had on my PC for years includes an 'anti-tracking' component and also has a whitelist which I have now added northstandchat.com to... hopefully that will help.
 


Super Steve Earle

Well-known member
Feb 23, 2009
8,976
North of Brighton
Don't know if there is any sound, but Amazon is continually crowding out the NSC screen on my Samsung tablet and often making it impossible to type a post without visiting Amazon site about 10 times in the process.
 










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