Annoying Webshots Audio plug-ins

I use Flickr. I pay a small annual fee to have no adverts at all. There is also a free one, though; but it does have adverts. I don't know about sound, as I never have my speakers switched on! . In message , John writes

Howdy!

Amen!

I will miss seeing some quilty shots but I won't miss webshots.

R/Sandy

I've been using Picasa on Google. It is free. I haven't really used it a whole lot so I haven't figured a lot out or how user friendly/unfriendly it is.

Steven Alaska

John

I haven't had any "audio intrusions" on webshots. I've used it for about 5 years and have no intentions of leaving.

When I uploaded some new photos today, I noticed the same thing. You click one ad "off", and the next one comes on louder. I think turning off the sound might be a good solution!

I just deleted all of my photo's from webshots. I have them on my extra hard drive so I am going shopping for a photo hosting site. Stay tuned. but no more webshots for me. John

I hear you John (no pun intended)! I was looking at Gen's quilts on Webshots last night and every time I brought up a new picture another LOUD ad started up. I have a headset rather than speakers, and even with the headset laying down on the floor I could still hear it. I finally gave up.

Trixie

John, I'm *hating* going to Webshots to see people's photos because of the audio. If I have music playing from iTunes or am listening to the news, the ads override that. It's very annoying, as you say.

Unless you're trying to listen to something else on your computer as you look at the photos. :S

i've been using webshots free version since 2003 and just checked it now. nothing is popping up and/or making any sounds at all. weird you lot are all getting stuck with it. j.

"John" wrote... I have noticed that Webshots has started using annoying plugins to flog something or other that requires you to unclick it to make it stop it's syrupy voiced intrusion. It might be time to look for a new photo hosting site. Any suggestions? Thank heavens I have copies of all my photo's in a back up hard drive.

John

No it doesn't stop this fiendishly effective intrusion that originates from within the webshots page. You have to click the annoying thing to shut it off and then it starts again after you click anything else on the site. Enough already! I have cancelled my webshots acct and am looking into other providers.

John

I just checked mine yesterday. I thought perhaps I wasn't affected, but after staying on my page for a few seconds, one of the ads became active with an audio track accompaniment. Rats. I may have to change my account too. Has anyone contacted the Webshots owners to protest?

I contacted them and told them I was closing the acct because of the intrusive audio spam. No response from them. I looked at the figures for my particular webshots page and the number of hits was over

John

My albums have over 125,000 hits and still haven't had any sound spam.

Are you logging in and viewing online? Check your album, select a photo, then click on "view online". That's when I heard the noisy ads.

I have noticed new pop-ups, but as I always surf with my speakers turned off, I hadn't noticed the noise. Hmmm.

Michelle in NV

How could I view an album off line?

Mary, as soon as I clicked on your link below, I got a blast of audio spam. Some of the other sites it didn't come on until I acutally got into the albums and pictures. Mickie