New Banner Ads

Scooby074 · Dec 10, 2013

Muhammad said:
What is the actual ad for? What company?

Mazda ad was one I believe. Its the floating pop up frame at the bottom.

murphy1244 · Dec 10, 2013

farmgirl19 said:
Thanks, bakerg! I have gone thru double my allotment for this 30 cycle, and still have a week to go before beginning a new cycle. If the motion ads hang around, I may be even more scarce. The ads that just come up with a small photo and/or wording is not my complaint, but the ones eating data plan is. I fully understand ads make the forum available to us for free, but until I realized what was causing me to bust limits, the ads had cost me $50, plus taxes and fees for this cycle. I tried posting or not posting, and that doesn't make much of a difference. The type of ads do.

Need to be carefull of what links you click on.

MossRoad · Dec 10, 2013

farmgirl19 said:
Thanks, bakerg! I have gone thru double my allotment for this 30 cycle, and still have a week to go before beginning a new cycle. If the motion ads hang around, I may be even more scarce. The ads that just come up with a small photo and/or wording is not my complaint, but the ones eating data plan is. I fully understand ads make the forum available to us for free, but until I realized what was causing me to bust limits, the ads had cost me $50, plus taxes and fees for this cycle. I tried posting or not posting, and that doesn't make much of a difference. The type of ads do.

What is your monthly plan data allotment ???

mpham · Dec 10, 2013

She said 5 gigs a few post up.

2LaneCruzer · Dec 10, 2013

Scooby074 said:
Mazda ad was one I believe. Its the floating pop up frame at the bottom.

I recall one that I've seen was Pizza Hut. It takes up the whole top of the page, and the rest of the page is blank.

farmgirl19 · Dec 10, 2013

aczlan said:
Firefox, Adblock plus and possibly Noscript will take care of that problem for you...

Aaron Z

I have adblock plus, and for some reason, it is not keeping those ads away. I am still seeing them, amd losing data plan to them.

farmgirl19 · Dec 10, 2013

MossRoad said:
What is your monthly plan data allotment ???

I get 5 GB every 30 days. And I do not click on links.

Now, Equifax is up there moving.

MossRoad · Dec 10, 2013

I think you have some other problem. There's slim to none chance that banner ads on TBN are consuming 5G of data twice a month. When I have TBN open, I monitor my network connection and there is very little traffic once the ad loads. Most of those are cached and only download once.

tkappeler · Dec 10, 2013

RDrancher said:
Download the firefox adblocker from the mozilla site. You'll love it.

If you are using Chrome, you can add Ad Blocker Plus from the Chrome App store. As RD said ... You'll love it.

farmgirl19 · Dec 10, 2013

MossRoad said:
I think you have some other problem. There's slim to none chance that banner ads on TBN are consuming 5G of data twice a month. When I have TBN open, I monitor my network connection and there is very little traffic once the ad loads. Most of those are cached and only download once.

That is what I kept thinking too, but when I stay off of TBN, I do not consume the data. I think each ad consumes with each change of the ad. When it was stationary banners, I did not have the issue. My problem began with the motion and video ads. And even though weather here has had me confined, I purposely stayed off of TBN, and did not go thru another GB of data, as I had been doing every 3-4 days when spending a lot of time on here.

You may be correct, and it might be something else, but it still appears to be related to being on TBN, and until those ads began, I never used 5 GB in the 30 days.

Thanks for the help!