slim jim audio ad on the homepage

[Mockery]

I was just on the I-Mockery homepage and heard an audio ad for Slim Jims. First off, I don't allow audio ads on the site, so something is apparently getting in through one of the networks that represents us, but I can't even find where the ad is on the homepage. I scrolled all over and didn't see any ad displaying a thing about Slim Jims. Have any of you seen this ad? If so, please lemme know what it looks like and where exactly it was.

[Tadao]

I know Kitsa heard a Widex ad and Kahl heard something as well.

I just reloaded the page and my browser blocked a popup and some bitch started screeching about lysol or windex or something and I can't figure out where it's coming from :(

And I just installed new antivirus antieverything.

the same thing happened to me and then it started singing that song that goes, "WONT LET YOU INTOOO MYY HEeeAAAARRRRTTT""

[Mockery]

Lemme know if you guys hear them any more, and if you do, what the ads are for and where they were appearing on any given page. Pisses me off that despite the filters we have in place, some of these networks still get some of those auto-playing audio ads through.

[Chojin]

i heard one myself, but i turned it off before i heard what it was for

[The Leader]

I heard one. It frightened me.

[Evil Robot]

It was the ghosts of the people who died in that horrible plant explosion last year.

[Kitsa]

I heard another one today but I can't remember what it was for. I think it had a fake doctor in it.

FWIW, a small town near me is the Slim Jim capital of the world. Apparently most of them are made there, if not all of them. I know they just had some big expansion and they showed the party on the news, and there was a whole buffet table of Slim Jims.

I really, really, really wanted to run into Macho Man Randy Savage at some point because of this. I guess I figured he'd be the keynote speaker of such festivities. But I never did see him. :(

:themoreyouknow

[Kitsa]

"Larry, we just had the carpets cleaned."

"But it was the pizza guy!"

"You said you bought a DiGiorno..."

(and then I closed the window.)

[The Leader]

It was the ghosts of the people who died in that horrible plant explosion last year.
:lol

[kahljorn]

i dunno... the weirdest thing was that i also couldn't find anything on the page ;/ i had a couple pages open but it just looked like regular ads, nothing that looked like it would have music or anything ;/

[Mockery]

"Larry, we just had the carpets cleaned."

"But it was the pizza guy!"

"You said you bought a DiGiorno..."

(and then I closed the window.)
Where were you when you heard this? On the forums or on the homepage? Was the ad at the top of the page or somewhere on the right side or what? Any info you can provide me will help me track down that crap. Thanks!

[Kitsa]

There was no ad at all that I can remember. It was on the General Blabber forum, and it happened between the time I went back to there from a thread and the time I clicked on another thread. There were no animated ads or anything that particularly matched the audio.

[kahljorn]

i was on the forums when it happened to me :(

[Sam]

It happens to me when I get directly on the forums too. :(

The Slim Jim one and another one.

OH GOD IT'S DOING IT RIGHT NOW, WITH SOME DISCOVER AD.

[Evil Robot]

"Larry, we just had the carpets cleaned."

"But it was the pizza guy!"

"You said you bought a DiGiorno..."

(and then I closed the window.)
I saw this dialog on a TV commercial for DiGiorno pizza on an actual TV set. It was three guys in the living room watching football and eating pizza. The wife walks in and gives them shit about the muddy footprints they left on the carpet for some reason. They blame the footprints on the pizza delivery guy, it flashes to a picture of the DiGiorna pizza and then cuts back to the fat retards cleaning the carpet. One of them then says "you left the box on the counter" or some shit like that.

I actually had one of these pizzas the other night but I didn't hear it playing any audio.

[Evil Robot]

You guys are sure your not just mistaking your TV for the computer are you?

[Tadao]

:lol

[darkvare]

i saw some a while ago that made noises when i moused over them but then again i get ads of completly different shit over here

[Mockery]

Ok, so the only ads we have on the forums are up at the top of the page, above the menus. But what's bizarre is I'm not seeing anything at the top of the pages loading that correlates to the sounds from said ads. Friggin' bizarre o.O

[Tadao]

Maybe it's the new incarnation of ads. If it doesn't correlate with the visual ad, you don't know how to close it. Also, you looked at the visual ad to see if it matched. It's a win win for them.

[Mockery]

Keep me posted if you guys keep hearing the ads. I have the networks looking into it so hopefully something will get that crap off the site soon.

[Zhukov]

While I haven't heard any audio, I really hate the ad that pops up about once every month or so and covers the top portion of the 'message' box when you hit reply, or the first threads in any given part of the forum.


It really gets on my goat.

[Kitsa]

in the i-bapery skin, the banner ads frequently cover the first few threads of a forum (in chrome and firefox, anyway).

I've had DiGiorno pizza fairly often and there's no way in hell I'd mistake it for something made at a pizza place. If it were made at some delivery franchise, I'd probably complain loudly and never go there again.

[captain516]

Happened to me just now.

[Mockery]

More details please, captain516. What was the ad for / what did you hear?

[The Leader]

It sounded as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

[Zhukov]

:lol

[captain516]

More details please, captain516. What was the ad for / what did you hear?
No idea, I exited the front page before I could hear the whole thing :lol
I got the impression that it was for a travel agency or something, though:\

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/www.google.com

ance google tv ad at the bottom of the page.

[Chojin]

Head & Shoulders audio-only ad happened on this page:
http://i-mockery.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69704662&page=2

[Guitar Woman]

Randy Savage is hijacking your site, Rog.

ARE YOU JUST GONNA LET HIM, OR ARE YOU GONNA STEP UP AND ACT LIKE A CHAMPION?

[Tadao]

I was viewing thread "LA for a Day"

Ad was blank, properties for it are

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I couldn't understand what the lady was trying to sell me. Happen 1 minute ago.

[Kitsa]

I was on the general forum index and just got page-jacked to redorbit.com.

[Kitsa]

just happened again to "therugged.com"

[Pentegarn]

The spambots are learning!

:skynet

:hypno

[Kitsa]

Now something about continuous air freshener. :(

[Mockery]

Thanks for the tips all, it's definitely helping. Keep 'em coming.

Kitsa - One of our ad reps located the ad that was causing those redirects you found, so they stopped the ad and they've now been banned. Thanks for letting me know about those. Now if I can just track down the source of the audio ones we'll be in good shape.

[Kitsa]

np.

Speaking of banner ads, those Zappos puppets are really starting to freak me the hell out :hypno

[lumpisan]

just heard one for clearasil and then airwicks on your article about the thumbwrestling toys just thought id give ya an fyi

[Babs]

I just got a Downy fabric softener commercial.

[Robodie III]

I heard a bewaterwise.com ad on the home page today. No idea what caused it.

[k0k0]

I got one for downy fabric softener...and it raped me. I'd show you all the places it touched me on a doll, but it'd probably be faster to show you where it didn't touch me.

Forgot to mention it was after I clicked on the main page to see comments on the E3 post.

[Chojin]

got the downy one today when i went to the main page

[kahljorn]

it scared me and now i have emotional damages :(

[Mockery]

Thanks for letting me know. Couldn't find the Downy one, but I just got an audio one on the homepage for some dishwasher detergent and grabbed a screenshot of it. I just sent it off along with info about the Downy one to our ad networks so hopefully they can track that bullshit down quickly.

I noticed that after the audio ads finish playing, they switch to a completely different ad in an attempt to hide their origin. >:

If any of you can tell me where on the homepage you saw the Downy ad (top of the page, sidescraper ad, or one of the 300x250 box ads on the left) that might help too.

[Kitsa]

I got a Downy one earlier today. From what I remember, the banner ad was totally unrelated to Downy.

[Mockery]

Yeah it changes to another ad at the end so you have trouble finding where the sound was coming from. So shitty.

Anyway, Gorilla Nation (one of my ad reps) says they found the obnoxious ads in question and have just removed it. If it's still happening later tonight, please let me know. This is the second time those kind of ads have appeared in their network and it had better stop.

[Esuohlim]

Is anyone else getting occaisional popups now?

[Pentegarn]

Firefox refuses to allow them, they refuse to allow almost all ads. It's nice

[MLE]

I've noticed Chrome blocking a few.

[Pentegarn]

Chrome is strong on ad blocks