Help! This banner is taking me HOSTAGE!
 

If that banner ad for Hostage with Bruce Willis pops up on my screen, it really drags down my computer response time. My cursor is flashing a mile a minute, and the text is dragging on my screen. With the banner up, 32% of my system resources are in use...with it gone, I am down to 2%.

Anyone else having this problem?

The same thing happens to me whenever that ad is showing.

How come I never have any of these ad problems people make threads about every week? Oh that's right. I don't use IE.

Some of us don't have the admin authority (at work) to install another browser. :)

At work, it's banners with IE. At home, DVDTalk kept crashing Firefox.

I'm having all kinds of problems. :lol:

HOSTAGE! Own it on DVD June 21st!
 

Damn thats annoying.

D

:hscratch:

que?

Give us a <strike>ransom</strike> donation and we'll take it away. :D

Are you talking about an ad here?

Do you realize that Geoff can't make money on us Otters arguing over pointless crap all day?

It was an awful movie, it deserves a bad ad.

...and now, something completely different:

-other-

And, ironically, what ad shows up when I click in here. We're trapped like rats.

rotfl TEK!

How's the neck?

Not only that...I just found out that we don't get paid a penny a post. :(

Wait, Phil, we

don't?


Aww crap.


In other news, ads make money for Geoff. You could... you know... not have Flash installed.

G-R-E-A-T!!! :up:

I have NO PAIN WHATSOEVER & total movement in my neck & arm and it was like a miracle or something, because I just woke up one day (last week) and it was like I never had a problem!!! :eek:

No more meds, and I'm ON TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!!! :lol:

:banana: !!!YAY FOR ME, EVERYBUDDY!!! :banana:

-Tek! :editking:

Well allow me to come over and give you a great big gigantic slap on the back! :horse:


Chris

YEE-OUCH, CHRISTOPHER!!! :eek:

(I've gotta story or a thread about that very thing happening a little while back...That IDIOT nearly POPPED MY SCREWS!!! :lol: )

But I've been feeling SO GOOD...

I could be...

OTTER PRESIDENT & BLOW THAT ELECTION THING THEY'VE CURRENTLY GOT GOING (in a thread somewhere around here) RIGHT OUTTA THE WATER...WITHOUT EVEN RUNNING!!!

:lol: & rotfl

-THEEK! & MRPAYROLL IN '05! :up:

:confused: oh really, I didn't know! I never read your threads ;)

:lol:

Chris

YOU SUCK, Mr. Vice President...

Hey :mad: I'd make a perfect VP. I'd be totally clueless to any of your policies!

Chris

Policies Schmolicies!!! -ohbfrank-

Everyone knows...THEEK! is the One & Only Real President of OtterVille!

What could be better than FUN & MONEY???

Vote for Fun!

Vote for Money!

TEK & MRPAYROLL in '05! :up:

Whaa, what? They moved us to Forum Feedback and Support????

We should be in the Politics Forum!

Mr. President, can you do something about this? :mad:

Chris

What does half a farthing have anything to do with?

What the HELL do you think I have a Vice President for?

GET TO WORK!!!

:lol: & rotfl

(I'm just kiddin' ya, Christopher! This "thread movement" issue doesn't really require any attention. Look. It's ALL FREE Publicity! Besides, I'm more interested it the...

DVD TALK/OTTERVILLE PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY PARTY!!! :up: & :lol: )

HEY EVERYBUDDY!!!

VOTE FOR FUN!!! :up:

VOTE FOR MONEY!!! :up:

THEEK! & MRPAYROLL IN '05 :up:

:hscratch:
And uh... yeah, actually, Geoff can make money on us Otters arguing over pointless crap all day. That's why we have advertising here.

Or did you think he's hosting this site out of some sense of altruism?

I wasn't having it when you first posted about the problem, but it seems to have started causing issues today. The status bar seems stuck on "read anon.truenorth.speedera.net" and resource usage is at 90+%. :(

I've noticed this the past few days. I use Firefox and tabbed browsing. When DVDtalk's front page is on one of the tabs with the Hostage banner ad, scrolling is choppy and response time is way down no matter what tab I'm using. Took me a while to figure it out because I'd usually notice it when I was using a different tab.

Ya, it makes it impossible for me to click on "Forum" on the main page, I have to use the drop-down bar on the side when that ad comes up with Firefox.

I can't select any of the options scattered along the top with the Hostage banner going. FYI.

Same thing here on firefox. and the Adblock addon will not allow me to block that banner so i can use teh links on the top of the page. Oh Well... IE for now.

Yeah, that ad slammed my browser (Netscape 7.2) three times in a row this morning. It was eating up so much of my resources I couldn't even CTRL-ALT-DEL to shut the program down. I had to wait for Netscape to crash on its own.

The only time I really notice a problem (on Fireefox) is when I'm also playing a DVD (via PowerDVD), the playback gets very choppy. I figure it'll only last another week or so so it's no big deal. If flash banners start to become the norm though that's another issue.

Yep, can't click the forum button. Doesn't slow my comp at all, but it's a really dumb ad that impedes one's ability to use this site.

Ditto here. I got to the forum from the newsletter, but not from the frontpage.

And ironically enough, the damn thing appears three f***ing times on THIS thread. :mad:

What's really odd is I don't seen to have a problem with it until it visibly appears on the screen.

I am using Netscape, and I am having the same problems.

One thing I've noticed, and hopefully Geoff reads through these to pick up on this, is when both the top and middle banner come up w/ the Hostage one it completely hoses the browser. I wonder if there is a way to much sure both banners don't come up w/ the same ad?