What's up with the ad bar?

[HeavyHauler]

Just wanted to know if anyone else felt this way:



I was just wondering why I paid $35 to join a club that sends out FOUR magazines and has a website that was only going to start putting advertisement bars on the bottom of the viewing area. It's one thing to have pop-up windows (which shouldn't be allowed either) but putting a banner across the bottom of the screen that restricts viewing area and can't even be closed is totally absurd and a slap in the face to all members. With the thousands of members of the TDR, you would think that you guys could keep from putting non-removeable ad bars on our screens especially those of which are not even diesel related.



This ad bar at the bottom wasn't here when I registered and it's seems rude and unfair to start putting stuff like this on OUR site.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

A couple of things. First we don't have any pop up ads. You probably have a spybot on your pc that was put there by another site. Go to http://www.adaware.com and download ad aware and do a scan and it will find all the spybots on your pc and allow you to delete them. Second the reason you are getting the ad across the bottom is because you are accessing the site from one of the alternative addresses. Go to the site at https://www.turbodieselregister.com (which is the true address for the site) and you won't get that ad at the bottom of the page.



-Steve St. Laurent

Webmaster

 

[MCummings]

Steve, I remember you saying that the ad will be on the bottom of the page for a limnited amount of time. Is that still true? If so, when is it going to be removed when you go to www.TDR1.com ?



I also noticed that going through www.TDR1.com got the banner on the bottom of the page, which is annoying as the Ford owns Cummins rumour.



What other URL's are usable to get into TDR?



I know www.TurboDieselRegister.com and the on with the "numbers" xxx. xx. xxx.com How does that one go?



Thanks,

Merrick Cummings Jr

 

[gitchesum]

Something else to consider concerning the www.tdr1.com address.



That is the address listed on the TDR decals. Is there no way to get rid of it on that address?

 

[TDRadmin]

Will Be Fixed

Thanks, guys. I'm the one who dropped this ball. It was on my "to-do" list. But I just never got to it.



So, today I got the ball rolling to get this fixed. As part of the process, I am transferring these URLs to my preferred provider. This whole process will take about 14 days to get the process completed. Then the annoying banner ad will be gone. Sorry I didn't get this done sooner.



Thanks!



Robin

TDR Admin

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

God Robin ya know! Sheesh! Take Dat ! Robin! Iv'e been using the numerical IP addy that I forgot the TDR1 access existed ... . who knew? gitchesum's got a good point tho.