What's with the annoying hidden adverts?

[booksgo]

Using Opera and Firefox I have misaligned adverts apppearing on mouse-over of the margins in the forums, but they don't appear in IE.
I find them really annnoying and wouldn't mind if they stayed visible all the time, or just weren't there, or at least were lined up properly! Anyone else think like this? :biggrin:

Edit to add: I notice they've disappeared altogether now I've logged in.

 

[Corey]

They only show for users not logged in

 

[booksgo]

I see, a clever ploy to entice people to log-in

I've just realised I haven't seen them before as I used to be logged in all the time as it's so great here :biggrin:

 

[jtwhite]

I also see them, now that I'm logged in a don't. Interesting to find out.

 

[Corey]

It's to monetize the traffic from google... we get a lot of visitors to just read old threads. The leaderboard ad at the top also disappears once you reach a certain level of posts

 

[callumacrae]

Ooh how many posts?

Although I am ashamed to say that I have AdBlock Plus installed. I am such a cheat. Sorry You should still get the hits though.

~Callum

 

[souphat]

They are a bit annoying, but only because they're misaligned.

 

[adamparkzer]

Ooh how many posts?

Although I am ashamed to say that I have AdBlock Plus installed. I am such a cheat. Sorry You should still get the hits though.

~Callum

Actually, I don't think advertisements receive hits when blocked, seeing as the entire ad script is being prevented from loading.

 

[callumacrae]

Oops. Okay I have unblocked the X10 ads

~Callum

 

[iamcameron]

I'm logged in and i still get the hidden ads. Am i doing something wrong?

 

[rebellion]

They kept crashing my browser

 

[dito7967]

Mine too.
They spiked real mem usage on my mac (safari is usually at 128mb usage) to 800mb usage while compiling apache. Usually it doesn't do that. At least they go away when I login