I just came here after getting the levi's ad,there is no way to control the volume on it.it's intrusive and rude.
This is extremely annoying for the video and sound to start playing and you can't stop it. Please do not allow these ads on the site.
Yep, this is the ideal way to drive away people who log in occasionally at work. The sound is not just annoying, it is enough to deter me from logging in from my office, and I spend most of my day there.
I'll add (no pun intended) my name to those LOUDLY COMPLAINING about this problem. The one I get, something to do with water, can't even be stopped. Please make it stop.
Well, that's one way to fix it. If you are using OpenDNS as your DNS provider, you can simply set up a block to the ad.simbiotico.com domain. I've not seen the Levi's ad since earlier this afternoon.
What is really pissy is it will just start randomly. The tab sits there while I'm on another tab then all of a suddon IT STARTS YELLING AT ME. I'm done with this site for a while. I'm not going to give it hits and help it's ranking while if annoys the hell out of me. I'll check back in a few days.
still going on....this seems to be an issue every other month anymore.... I'll just go to RAWK till you get it fixed.
Hey, I got it tonight too! Cool voice from the narrator, but it was loud, unexpected, and on the front page.
It's in the Flowplayer where the Ole Teve video runs with Barcelona & whoever. This video runs unbidden by the BigSoccer user, but without sound. When it gets to the ad, THE SOUND COMES ON AND IS UNABLE TO BE MUTED. Not exactly what my sleeping wife wanted to hear in bed next to her last night. Thx, Jay!
Of course you can do this, but it hurts our site. Our ads are not meant to be obnoxious like this so hopefully we can sort this out soon. Apologies to those of you who do support the site - thanks.
My biggest problem with the OleTeve ad square is that the same vid clip runs forever. It was a week of Swansea's debut in the Premiership, now it is Barca. If the clips were changed daily, at least there would be a "reward" for the ad, but as of now, it is only annoying.
I understand that, but ads should ideally give the user the ability to opt-in to the sound, and at the very least give the opportunity to mute the sound. The ads that simbiotico.com served up do not meet that standard. As a result, they go on my block list. It's a very small block list though...
They keep showing Barca matches on the Madrid board, too. If the ad was a poster, I'd have infracted it for trolling already.
Yes I got the Olive Garden now too. Happened on the bigsoccer.com home page. I've been 10 years on bs and this is the most annonying thing that's ever happened.