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MD Buckeye;2166964; said:
The pop-ups aren't as annoying to me as the AdMonkey video ads....lol
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As long as they're not autoplaying audio or autoexpanding, we're basically stuck with them -- but without those behaviors you should never notice them (unless you want to). If you're seeing something with bad behavior, please let me know.

We had those awful anti-smoking ads (the campaign is fine, but the box ads we got auto played audio and sometimes two would load creating this awful echo/tunnel/warp effect) but I was able to squash that pretty quickly (I nuked an entire advertising partner).
 
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Just to be clear -- this insightexpressai.com survey pop isn't some sort of 'attack' or something. Tons of ads include a survey option, you probably see them all over the web and the vast majority of the time Insight Express is the company that serves them and processes the data. We block all of those. Doesn't matter how much the ad campaign is worth, we turn them away. In this case, one of the Gatorade creatives simply has that enabled when they shouldn't, so USA Today is having them remove it (or whatever it will take to get it off our site). The only thing that's 'bad' about this thing is it doesn't belong here. It's not here as the result of some sort of bigger problem, simply an oversight or error somewhere between Gatorade's agency and our ad partner. This is an annoyance, nothing more, but one that sees me a hardliner. I hate pop-ups, and have no real patience when it comes to seeing them here when we expressly forbid and block them across the board.

We don't allow:
Pop-ups
Pop-unders
Full page layers (ads that work into page backgrounds) -- or for that matter;
Any forced layer tech (ads have to stay within the confines of their respective spaces)
Auto-expanding (situationally we tolerate on-click or on-mouseover expanders -- the Marine Corps campaign was one example)
Auto-audio (reduced or full volume) (situationally we tolerate on-click audio -- as above)
Creatives that have elements that operate outside of the defined ad space (flying objects and other bullshit)
Political (sometimes these slip through third party filters)
Religious (as above)
Foreign language
 
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Just checked in with the good folks at USA Today Sports Media and I really hope/expect either the Gatorade campaign (where the survey pop is attached) will be gone today, or they'll be able to strip that bit of code out of it. The latter may be harder insofar as it's the advertiser's code.

Stupid Gators.

Anyway, sorry to all for any inconvenience.

Finally, when and as people see ads that fall into my 'prohibited' list above, please do let me know in this or another (new) thread like it. These things stress me right the hell out, but they have to be dealt with.
 
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Clarity;2166998; said:
As long as they're not autoplaying audio or autoexpanding, we're basically stuck with them -- but without those behaviors you should never notice them (unless you want to). If you're seeing something with bad behavior, please let me know.

We had those awful anti-smoking ads (the campaign is fine, but the box ads we got auto played audio and sometimes two would load creating this awful echo/tunnel/warp effect) but I was able to squash that pretty quickly (I nuked an entire advertising partner).
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They have been auto-playing audio from time to time
 
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The pop-ups seem to be gone for me now. I've been trying to get them to show back up so I could forward you the additional information you were asking for, but I'm not getting anything. Glad that it seems to be fixed.

In the future, I'll send screenshots/URLs.
 
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MD Buckeye;2167120; said:
They have been auto-playing audio from time to time
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If it happens again, please let me know what they were advertising. Or what the URL was that it linked to. I just need something (no snark here, just want everyone to know) to chase it down.
 
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jlb1705;2167124; said:
The pop-ups seem to be gone for me now. I've been trying to get them to show back up so I could forward you the additional information you were asking for, but I'm not getting anything. Glad that it seems to be fixed.

In the future, I'll send screenshots/URLs.
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Much appreciated. Hopefully that means the changes I made to our remnant providers cleaned them up.

You don't have to go as far as screenies (although the more info I get the easier it becomes to figure out where bad things are coming from). What the ad was for, and ideally what its own URL was, is often enough to get us started down the right path.

Thanks to everyone with your patience. The off-season often seems to be an exercise in squashing undesirables.
 
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Clarity;2167128; said:
If it happens again, please let me know what they were advertising. Or what the URL was that it linked to. I just need something (no snark here, just want everyone to know) that I need enough to chase it down.
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Will do
 
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About an hour ago I got an IE message about it blocking a site with certificate errors. It could've just been a valid ad with an outdated cert (I didn't allow the browser to display it, so I don't know what ad it may have been). That's the only thing I've noticed lately...
 
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Clarity;2167291; said:
Really concerned they're not going to deal with it before leaving for the weekend.
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This seems to have happened. No one hates it more than I do. Anyone who wants to block it locally can do so by blacklisting insightexpressai.com -- otherwise we'll get it taken care of early next week. Sorry, all.
 
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BuckStocksHere;2167509; said:
That pop up just did a triple lindy on me. It popped up three times in succession, one right after another.

Just giving you insight if you hadn't seen that effect yet.
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I'm guessing it choked trying to store a cookie on your browser. It will hit you every single time there's a Gatorade ad if you don't have the cookie. If you do have the cookie (which you get from seeing the popup) then it will hit you every 2 hours.

No matter how you look at it, it's not just a shitty pop-up, it's a shitty pop-up with shitty in-your-face rules. Can't wait for it to be gone. I have to figure Monday, at this point.

Come August I will have direct control (as I understand it) of the ads from USA Today (they didn't authorize the pop-up, a client snuck it in with the Gatorade campaign) and will be able to nuke things myself rather than call someone, who calls someone, who calls someone to do it.

Can't wait.
 
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