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I came across this nuisance yesterday after switching to Opera. It was really irritating. Every time I minimised the bottom-of-page popup panel it reappeared when I moved to a different forum page. In Opera the remedy is easy. Go to menus Opera | Settings | Privacy protection, and activate the Block Ads option. That still allows the RH panel Forum Sponsors ads, so no harm to forum revenue. When I tried reproducing the nuisance just now, the popup panel appeared at bottom of page but is now void of ads, so maybe Admin is fine-tuning. In Firefox I couldn't get the popup panel to appear at all, even with Block Popup Windows disabled.

The current advertisements below the 'Advertise here' link in the RH panel link back to eu.criteo.com, and on loading forum pages I see that domain name as one of the last flashing up briefly in the status bar as loading-from.


ETA: To confirm: the lower popup panel window, currently occupying the lower ~15% of the screen under Midori browser, is also definitely from criteo.com. Clicking on its top RH arrow confirms that, and asks you to report ads, ie provide free feedback, as "Not interesting", "Repetitive", "Not appropriate" or "Ad design issue".

In the meantime, be aware that some variability in apparent effectiveness of ad blockers might be due to differences in the rate of updating their filter lists, or to their configuration settings. AdblockPlus has, for example, a large config page on its Firefox extension page. with several configurable parameters. I only started using it, btw, not to block ads but to prevent forum posters downloading piles of hotlinked images and videos on me. I've now accumulated a hefty collection of blocked site URLs that I can pass on if anyone's interested.
I think any fixing might be dependent on whatever agreement there is between the forum and GoogleAds. In the meantime, as a possible workaround, I've noticed that, when I've not disabled ads on Opera, switching from full screen window to reduced size, any size, seems to effectively disable the bottom-of-screen popup frame.

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