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Mon 22 Apr 2024 08:56
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - skidpan

Despite having an AdBlocker this advert will no go away and on my phone its is a real problem.

I have even resorted to filling it in but its still there.

How do you get rid of it?

Update.

Just tried using Brave with Tor and its not there.

Looks like I need a better adblocker on both devices.

Edited by skidpan on 22/04/2024 at 09:00

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Mon 22 Apr 2024 13:44
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - FP

Absolute pain on my mobile - hovering in my field of view when scrolling.

Doesn't appear on my PC, which has various blockers.

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Mon 22 Apr 2024 15:20
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - skidpan

It went earlier in the afternoon but just got back home and it back on the PC and phone both of which have ad blockers.

As before its not there using Brave with Tor.

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Mon 22 Apr 2024 17:46
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - Adampr

It's quite irritating isn't it?

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Mon 22 Apr 2024 18:36
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - Engineer Andy

Perhaps you could try uBlock Origin, possibly in conjunction with Ghostery. On my elderly (2011 Win 7) PC, I found AdBlock Plus rather resource-hungry, uBlock Origin less so but seemingly as effective, and with Ghostery loaded, better still at blocking ads and unwanted cookies.

Both seemingly work well on my far newer Android 12 smartphone. Both devices run Firefox - not sure what ones can run on other browsers, especially the cut down Android ones. Hopefully both.

Worth a try, given they are just ad-ons to the browser.

You may also want to clear your history at least of any data (cookies, etc) related to the errant ads before installing any new software. Sometimes that can make just as much difference as the new software itself.

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Mon 22 Apr 2024 18:52
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - Adampr

I thought I might just keep booking Hyundai test drives until they stop telling me to.

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Mon 22 Apr 2024 19:42
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - galileo

I thought I might just keep booking Hyundai test drives until they stop telling me to.

AdBlock Plus has an option to block specific items, using this I clicked on the Hyundai test drive and it disappeared at once

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Mon 22 Apr 2024 21:44
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - Ethan Edwards

Can I add my vote. Most annoying ad ever.

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Tue 23 Apr 2024 13:07
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - alan1302

Can I add my vote. Most annoying ad ever.

What's it doing? On my PC it's only showing as a small box on the bottom right but does not cover up anything.

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Tue 23 Apr 2024 13:49
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - skidpan

Can I add my vote. Most annoying ad ever.

What's it doing? On my PC it's only showing as a small box on the bottom right but does not cover up anything.

Bottom right hand corner on PC, on my phone its in the centre.

Using Firefox on my phone which seems to sort it and Brave with Tor on my PC.

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Tue 23 Apr 2024 16:18
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - movilogo

Brave browser also blocks ads on YouTube. It makes watching YouTube a pleasant experience again.

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Wed 24 Apr 2024 14:18
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - Engineer Andy

Brave browser also blocks ads on YouTube. It makes watching YouTube a pleasant experience again.

Thankfully. The only way I could get it to work before the browsers / ad blockers updated their software was to temporarily switch off that feature on my Ghostery ad-on, then re-enable it just after the video loads, to avoid the ads. I had to do it for every video watched. Back to 'normal' again, at least on my PC. The YT app obviously doesn't block their own ads.

A constant battle these days. Hopefully that story that came out today (it might be just a puff piece to support TV stations) about TV advertising being far more financially beneficial to the advertisers may lessen Google's proverbial stranglehold on the market.

Obviously sites like this have to bring in revenue from somewhere, so as long as the ads aren't intrusive and slow down my PC / phone, it's something I'll put up with on occasion.

Edited by Engineer Andy on 25/04/2024 at 22:56

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Fri 10 May 2024 16:47
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - skidpan

After a couple of weeks its back on my PC and phone.

I do wonder if Hyundai are paying or simply putting up adverts for free.

Have posted this using Brave browser with Tor, its the only one I have tried that stops it.

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Fri 10 May 2024 21:30
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - galileo

After a couple of weeks its back on my PC and phone.

I do wonder if Hyundai are paying or simply putting up adverts for free.

Have posted this using Brave browser with Tor, its the only one I have tried that stops it.

My post above suggesting AdBlock plus option to click to hide the ad still works.

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Fri 10 May 2024 21:59
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - alan1302

I do wonder if Hyundai are paying or simply putting up adverts for free.

Of course they are paying - why would you think the site would let them do it for free?

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Sat 11 May 2024 20:25
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - groaver
It started to appear for me with the use of chromium (Ubuntu) web browser.

I added the app, "scriptblock" from the chrome webstore and it was successful at removing it.
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Sat 11 May 2024 22:18
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - Adampr

It's now specifically telling me.to book a test drive in an Ioniq 5. I don't want a car that looks like a cross between a Maestro and an Amstrad midi system.

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Fri 17 May 2024 09:50
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - Ethan Edwards

Dunno for some reason it's strangely appealing....

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Fri 17 May 2024 10:35
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - Maxime.

Dunno for some reason it's strangely appealing....

I rarely look at the site now, so a couple of minutes doesn't bother me in the slightest.

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Sat 25 May 2024 22:24
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - A. Brown

Neither do I want to book a test drive in a Hyundai 'ioniq 5', whatever that is. Sounds perfectly ghastly.

Edited by A. Brown on 25/05/2024 at 22:25

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Sun 26 May 2024 22:23
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - alan1302

Neither do I want to book a test drive in a Hyundai 'ioniq 5', whatever that is. Sounds perfectly ghastly.

Could be the car of your dreams but you'll never know now...

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Sun 26 May 2024 00:59
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - focussed

Yes - did what you said and adblock killed it - thanks.

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Sun 26 May 2024 08:08
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - Lee Power

The thing with annoying repeat pop up adverts for the same product, it just makes me think the company has difficultly selling it so the product must be r****** & best avoided.

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Wed 5 Jun 2024 15:41
Book Your Hyundai Test Drive - Ethan Edwards

That's the obvious conclusion but it's a really decent car imo. So didn't need the i**** adverts that block out content.

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