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Thread poster: IrinaN
IrinaN
IrinaN
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Jun 29

Even the online cheap clothes sellers have an option to remove any ads that break through AdBlockers immediately after pop-up. But half-price membership ad seems to be non-destructible and covers half of the screen. Maybe big deal, just tacky. Sorry for possible typos, I can't see half of what I wrote

Jennifer Levey
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Barbara Carrara
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Cilian O'Tuama
Philip Lees
ibz
 
Joseph Oyange
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How to close the membership Ad Jun 29

Hi everyone. You can close the Ad by clicking in the "X" on the top-right corner of the page as shown on the attached image below

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Jennifer Levey
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Chile
Local time: 16:01
Spanish to English
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@Joseph Jun 29

Last evening, when I got my first opportunity to curse that ad, the "X" you refer to seemed to be hidden/disabled, or inaccessible because the ad spilled over the edge of the screen.
To get rid of it I added https://www.proz.com/forum/translator_resources/368230-nice_ad.html to my Adblock blacklist. Problem solved (at least as far as this particular un-nice ad is
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Last evening, when I got my first opportunity to curse that ad, the "X" you refer to seemed to be hidden/disabled, or inaccessible because the ad spilled over the edge of the screen.
To get rid of it I added https://www.proz.com/forum/translator_resources/368230-nice_ad.html to my Adblock blacklist. Problem solved (at least as far as this particular un-nice ad is concerned).
I have briefly unblocked that page, and I now see that the "X" was in fact accessible - but it was black, not red, with a transparent background - and hence indistinguishable against a very dark area of the ad image.
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Barbara Carrara
Philip Lees
neilmac
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Erwin van Wouw
Apolonia Dermit
Hans Lenting
 
IrinaN
IrinaN
United States
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Please Jun 29

Make it visible. Thank you.

 
Cilian O'Tuama
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Germany
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Should disappear shortly... Jun 30

if the offer is only for today.

The red X is invisible to me too.

(Posted at 3:20 am on June 30 - may take a while to appear)


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Philip Lees
Philip Lees  Identity Verified
Greece
Local time: 21:01
Greek to English
Web standards Jun 30

Jennifer Levey wrote:

I now see that the "X" was in fact accessible - but it was black, not red, with a transparent background - and hence indistinguishable against a very dark area of the ad image.

Thanks for this, Jennifer. I'd given up trying to get rid of it and was ready to abandon the site for a few days until the ad goes away.

If this is a taste of the kind of thing we can expect when the "revamped" ProZ website is launched - and presumably will become obligatory, with no opt-out - then heaven help us all.

The kindest thing that can be said about this ad is that it is amateurish.


neilmac
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Barbara Carrara
ibz
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 19:01
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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@All Jun 30

Is this a reflection of the state of our industry as a whole? Since when does Proz.com need to get members through a super discount? By the way, how successful was this one-day campaign?

Christel Zipfel
Barbara Carrara
Chris Says Bye
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Christel Zipfel
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If I had only known that... Jun 30

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

Is this a reflection of the state of our industry as a whole? Since when does Proz.com need to get members through a super discount? By the way, how successful was this one-day campaign?

... perhaps I would have taken advantage of it as a (very small) compensation for all the bugs we have suffered. as last year, the membership was surely not even worth half its price.

Maybe ProZ will consider repeating this "special sale"? (But still thinking about renewing.)


Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Zea_Mays
Barbara Carrara
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
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English to Portuguese
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@Christel Jun 30

For my part, after much hesitation, I decided to give Proz the benefit of the doubt and I recently renewed for another year, if I had known about this discount I would have taken advantage of it for the reasons you mentioned...

 
Philip Lees
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Greece
Local time: 21:01
Greek to English
One day Jul 1

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

By the way, how successful was this one-day campaign?

A "one-day" campaign, claiming "TODAY ONLY", which has now already been running for three days, by my count.

Have the robots taken over, and are ProZ staff now unable to shut it down?


Barbara Carrara
ibz
Chris Says Bye
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Zea_Mays
Michele Fauble
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Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
Local time: 20:01
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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F5 Jul 1

Just hit F5. The ad disappears.

Trying to find an X was one of the first things I tried. There is no X.


 
Philip Lees
Philip Lees  Identity Verified
Greece
Local time: 21:01
Greek to English
Not so easy Jul 1

Samuel Murray wrote:

Just hit F5. The ad disappears.

And then reappears as soon as you scroll up and down.

Trying to find an X was one of the first things I tried. There is no X.

There is, but the only way to find it is to move your mouse slowly around in the upper right region until the mouse cursor changes from an arrow to a pointing hand. Then click.


Barbara Carrara
 
Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 20:01
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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Black Jul 1

Samuel Murray wrote:
There is no X.


Yes, there is. But it's black, so you have to look closely.

In the meantime this ad keeps on popping up everywhere. Kind of annoying.


Philip Lees
ibz
Barbara Carrara
Stepan Konev
Michele Fauble
philgoddard
 
I haven’t seen this ad🤷‍♂️ Jul 1

Maybe they just don’t want me.

Becca Resnik
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Kuochoe Nikoi-Kotei
Barbara Carrara
B&B FinTrans
 
Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise
Belgium
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Discrimination Jul 1

Christopher Schröder wrote:
Maybe they just don’t want me.


What an enviable instance of discrimination.


Josephine Cassar
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