- Poll: Is Your Browser Acting Poorly When the Pen Ads Come Up?

Updated on July 27, 2012
A.V. asks from Silver Spring, MD
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I've had problems in FireFox lately and it drove me crazy. I figured maybe mamapedia had javascript in the background that was loading...and loading...but then I realized that every time the browser froze, it was after one of those pen ads (sometimes I can hear it if I can't see it yet). No pen ad - everything is fine. I asked them about it, but I am also curious if anyone else is having issues. Are the pen ads messing you up?

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B.F.

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The pen ads on Mamapedia are so very annoying. I don't get them on any other site with Firefox, just this one. Once they start, I can't get them to stop without leaving this site. So, I just leave Mamapedia and go to other places. I wonder if it is worth the $ that Mamapedia gets if the ads cause people to just leave.

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T.M.

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I hate the pen ads because of the stupid noise it makes! but other than that I'm not having any other problem. I just have to remember to turn off the volume. It's an ANNOYANCE for sure.

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C.Z.

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They are not messing up my computer but they are ANNOYING!

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K.M.

answers from Chicago on

Yes, me too - plus the wooshing sound is annoying.

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J.S.

answers from Hartford on

I've been using Chrome lately because so many web sites seem to be updating their scripts for Chrome. ::sigh::

But on both Firefox and Chrome I have AdBlock Plus. I don't get those pesky ads. I can also selectively block images and other things as well. It's free.

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L.H.

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Not interfering but ANNOYING!!!

☆.H.

answers from San Francisco on

Huh - I don't see the pen ad. I'm using safari.

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A.H.

answers from Omaha on

I haven't noticed any problem, but my kids love those ads. My daughter comes running when she hears them! lol
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J.B.

answers from Houston on

If you research it, this site has been known to DESTROY a computer... ask me how I know...
Then you ask why I'm still on here..? and the answer to that would be... 'switched to a mac'

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J.M.

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I was an avid Firefox fan for sooo long!

Then it turned out to be incompatible with my college's website... So I couldn't access my school e-mail, get into my message boards, or anything else I NEEDED to have access to...

THEN I started having issues with other random sites, getting popups about script errors and all sorts of freezing issues... I couldn't use MP at ALL, because every time I got to the page I would get message after message (layering one over the top of the other until I had about 5-6 on my page) warning me of script errors. I thought I had a virus or something. The computer guy I had come check out my computer told me that Firefox has been having issues lately with certain scripts... which sucks, because I really do like Firefox...

BUT... Now I use Google Chrome, and haven't had any issues since. :)

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C.B.

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Yes... problems here also!

X.O.

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Seems to make mine very slow to respond to my commands.

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R.K.

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I ffind that most of the ads on MP that have any kind of movement or sound mess up my computer.

Those pen ads are really annoying.

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D.N.

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Not sure what a pen ad is but I have had a tonof mamapedia problems today. Sometimes I cannot open a question or cannot respond, or it takes forever to get my response to go through. THis morning I had to refresh over and over and over and still had problems.

K.L.

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My computer has been having issues with my computer running so slow today every time I am on this site. I am so sick of those ads already!

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