American Express ad playing music

I don't mind ads and understand they are crucial to supporting the site, but there is currently an AE one that plays Maroon 5 songs when your cursor goes over it. Outside of turning off my speakers, is there a way to mute this?

This is too weird. It started playing just now when I was in a whole other window. The ad is overreaching the site's typical ad space too. Until I refreshed the page, I couldn't click "New posts" without starting it. I will never own an American Express card.

Chrome's Adblock extension has fixed the problem, if anyone else is having it. It was just that one ad that had ever done that...

Perhaps Google is getting more money from those advertisers who can post ads with sound. So I doubt that they would give control to viewers to be able to disable it. Honestly, I just keep my speakers off unless I have reason to specifically turn them on, so I would never notice something like that.

But to directly answer your question, no, there isn't any way I am aware of to block audio from Google ads.

BTW, what ad types can even support an audio track? SWF?

I do hope that Google isn't going to shoehorn multimedia ads (video and audio) onto ad hosting sites, otherwise the burden may become intrusive enough that I would have to consider an alternative to that income stream. Not that this site brings in much revenue that way, but heck, every little bit helps.

Thanks, it looks like Adblock killed that ad. But I liked allowing ads (assuming the revenue isn't generated if blocked), and I like seeing the CS sponsor ads here, especially.

With the Google ads, I only get a small slice of the pie if you click on the ad, so unless you habitually clicked on some of interest to you, blocking their viewing won't have any effect.

The advertisers that show up here using my FaunaAds.com website, however, are paying per day for their ads, so I'm sure they would like to think that most people here are at least seeing them. So yeah, in this case I would think that the ad blocking modules would negatively impact this site if they are widely used by members and guest viewers.

Originally Posted by Chip

Chrome's Adblock extension has fixed the problem, if anyone else is having it. It was just that one ad that had ever done that...

Chip, I use google chrome browser whenever on a windows computer. That adblock is definitely a must-have thing.

Note, even safari has a very similar adblock emblem/icon up there, now that I look. Which I must have put there at some point. Which allows nothing through.

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