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Subject: What the!?!? A pop up asking for my opinion and went to another website anyway!?

Lyne opened this issue on Jul 31, 2014 · 4 posts
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Lyne ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2014 at 6:30 PM · edited Thu, 01 August 2024 at 2:13 PM

WHEN I CLICKED TO CLOSE IT!   MAKE ME REALLY MAD !!

TO SIGN IN, AND HAVE A POP UP HERE!?!? 

Normally anything like that, wanting opinions or surverys also REQUIRE an e mail address... and why would I want to be on another web site's list!?

Come on guys!! Don't you want to be consumer friendly anymore??

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!

TinaK ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2014 at 8:44 PM

Lyne,

We do not have this type of pop ups on our site.  I am not sure where this would be coming from.

If you get this again try to get a screenshot and I will show it to the programmers to make sure it is nothing on our end.

We haven't had any other member mention this to us.

Tina Kaylor

Community Manager

Lyne ( ) posted Fri, 01 August 2014 at 12:24 PM

Well I actually saw a post here a while back, I think in the "new" market place feed back or bug thread, I forget which... but since it  had not happened to me, then I forgot about it... till it happened to me... sorry I got so mad, and I'm glad it's not you all...but someone is sure 'bugging' this site... I had been to NO OTHER SITES... just came to look around in the am...and it came up and 'hijacked me' to another site...

I sure will do a screen capture next time!

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!

IceEmpress ( ) posted Sat, 02 August 2014 at 1:46 AM · edited Sat, 02 August 2014 at 1:47 AM

I would have assumed it would be the ad companies hired by Renderosity.

About 10 years ago, Gamefaqs had some problems with that.  It wasn't popups, but there were some very intrusive ads, including one with a bug, and two that were indecent (one was Jamster/Crazy Frog-- they put a Norway maple leaf on him, but it didn't cover most of the naughty bit.  One of the Canadian forumites was offended because he mistook it for a sugar maple leaf.  It was also really annoying because he spastically jumped back and forth.  The other one was a Drawn Together ad the censored version originally aired on Comedy Central, and was still pretty risque of one of the characters playing grabass with another)  The buggy ad blared a really crappy guitar riff really loud-- it was supposed to be muted by default but was instead the other way around.  Then there was the dreaded "Coke ad", which made noise every time your cursor ran over it.  Oh, and popovers.

 

The indecent ads BTW actually violated CNET's ToU, and were taken down usually within 24 to 36 hours, but still it really tells you something.  Granted, this IS Cnet we're talking about.

 

If you determine it to be the handiwork of the advertisers, then a complaint to the ad company is in order, as chances are popups violate their ToU.

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