Starting today I have noticed a light gray popup bar coming up from the bottom of my screen every time I load a new page on Renderosity. There is NOTHING on it.

Adblock plus says that it is http://www.renderosity.com/photos/File833.png

I don't know what this is supposed to be but it is annoying. If this is supposed to be some new "feature" is there some way to turn it off and make it stop coming up like that?

I got a big ad for full sail university and some other popups that my flashblock is stopping.

Renderosity must have installed a new advertising annoyance. I am on dialup and it really kills performance when it pops up.

There are at least 4 websites involved, one being some facebook site, ad.doubleclick.net, d,productsdirect.com . The others I didnt catch.

It looks like some major spamblocking will be needed because I dont want to have renderosity as a trusted site if they start allowing third party sites on the same session.

Perhaps a rendo admin can give us an assurance that renderosity management indemnify  the third party sites ?

ok, my mistake  not d,productsdirect.com but d.proadsdirect.com  

Oh great it figures. How about giving us some way to get rid of that crap eh? because I can tell you I will never click any links on it because nothing Mark mentioned is something I will go to.
It will just make people who don't want to deal with it and people who are on dialup who get lagged to hell and back by them not even want to bother coming here.

I'm using the FireFox browser with the excellent NoScript plugin, and fortunately haven't seen the dreaded "light grey popup bar".

Yeah I agree it's annoying as Hell and really it's just a new type of Pop Up that pop up blockers cant seem to block or at best make it white with no image showing. I have a pop up blocker active because I hate Pop ups. Jeez.

What do you mean pop up blockers cant seem to block it? Mine do. I've never seen a popup ad here. Or pretty much anywhere for that matter. I have several running so don't know which one is the awesome one, but they work.

Don't know what to do, I installed the FireFox no script thing but then I could not reply to this thread. Sigh.

So I disabled the no script  tool to reply and then the pop up came back.

I have the fire fox pop up blocker active but it's not stopping the pop up.

I'll turn on the no script tool again and stay silent from now on. GRRRR.

If you have the no script tool, allow renderosity to use scripts but not third parties. That seems to allow posting while doing away with the pestilence.

Oh for the love of Mike...what the hell? I unsubscribed from the newsletter so that I don't get unsolicited emails and now this? What the f*ck are you guys thinking? You have a store, ain't that enough?

walks away shaking head

Laurie

The other day I noticed that every page on Renderosity was taking a longer than usual time to load.  I wondered if there was something new trying to load. 

Quote - If you have the no script tool, allow renderosity to use scripts but not third parties. That seems to allow posting while doing away with the pestilence.

I did as you suggested. I added renderosity.com to the white list. But it seems to block the ads now.

Thank you Rederosity for the reminder to be more cautious of our security settings.

Well, I just enabled AdBlock Plus for Firefox on my end for this site and now I don't see any ads...

happy dance

Laurie

Hmmm they must have changed something. I went off and did something else for a bit and now the annoying bar does not show up when  reload pages.

Yup, it appears to be gone ... for now ... Thanks Rendo.

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

Quote - Well, I just enabled AdBlock Plus for Firefox on my end for this site and now I don't see any ads...

I was getting the empty grey thing at the bottom, but I restarted my browser and it's gone now, so perhaps  the AdBlock filters were updated...

I didn't see it.  they may have killed it an hour or two ago.

Good afternoon everyone!

I just wanted to take a moment and thank everyone who took the time to express their concerns regarding today's footer overlay advertising.

There was a small window of time this morning when I was testing a bit of code from a potential advertising client of ours.  The reason this footer overlay remained in place longer than initially intended was that it was not appearing on our home page (the page that I kept checking the status of) - but on every other page throughout the site.

This is not the level of 'in-your-face' advertising that you should come to expect from us nor that we would allow. 

I apologize for the inconvenience that it may have caused.

All the best,
Tim Haaksma
Renderosity
Marketing | Sales

Um, pardon for being somewhat sarcastic, but...

Don't you have a mirror site on a local server that you can test on rather than on the live site???! Forgive me if I find that odd. For a site this large, you would think you'd not want to risk breaking the site by "testing" ads like that on the live site. But what do I know...

Edit: oh, and I don't know if you've noticed, but this site is loaded with in-your-face advertising (the freebie area comes to mind).

Laurie

My concern was not with the popup, they are merely annoying and often can be killed with a bit of a setup of popup or script blockers. It was more that several sites were being called and for me scripts from 3rd party sites are always forbidden.

If my virus / spyware /adware goes off on a renderosity page , I will be blaming rendo, not a 3rd party site.

You have the top banner for ads, now you think you need a pop-up too.

By the way, while that was active , my version of Firefox was crashing often.  I dont know it was the extra stuff, but it stopped crashing when the ads stopped appearing. It was the usual "Firefox has encountered a problem and needs to terminate" message , so no clue what was bothering it.

Thanks Tim, - for the note from a real person .    We tend to forget you guys are still back there when things are working OK.

I'm glad I'm not a morning person! :tt2: