I seem to be afflicted by a "day we fight back" advert appearing on skritter (the web version). It appears when using both firefox and safari. Other websites I visit don't seem to have this problem (BBC, apple.com etc.).

The problem with this is that this advert covers the "save changes" button when adding items to a vocabulary list. I've thrown away nearly 40 minutes of time on this.

Is it just me that this is experiencing this problem, or do other people have this problem too? From surfing the web, it seems that this advert is only going to be troubling people on Feb 11. If so, then maybe the web version of skritter will be usable again from Feb 12 onwards.

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I have the same problem (with both Firefox and Chrome). I wasn't quite as persistent as you though, and only wasted 5 minutes on it. :)

I thought I could just pretend it wasn't there and accept it as a visual annoyance, but when I found that it made skritter unusable, I was "a bit miffed", shall we say….

I applaud the Skritter team for joining the day we fight back. I doubt they foresaw that it would cause the problem you have described. But as you said, it is only one day, so perhaps a small price to pay for Internet freedom.

I don't applaud it. I've paid a subscription to use skritter and I don't see why the service should go on strike (even inadvertantly) for political reasons. I come to skritter to learn japanese, not to learn about other people's perceptions about internet freedom.

Maybe a solution for the future would be to have the "save changes" button somwhere on the page that isn't going to be obscured by these adverts in the future. In that way, people like me can just ignore the visual distraction of the adverts and get on with studying, and those who want to engage in the adverts can.

I do accept that there has just been some unfortunate mistake here by skritter, by the way. I value the work the team put in to developing and maintaining it.

There is a button in the upper right of the banner to minimize it, which should get it out of your way, no?

We weren't able to test the banner before deploying it, which was unfortunate. I thought it would go away forever if you clicked the (x), but it has to be minimized for each page.

It'll go away by tomorrow.

The problem was that it didn't go away fully when that button was clicked. It minimised the pop up, but the minimised bit still covered important functionality in skritter. The other issue with little buttons like that is that you don't know, as a user, whether the code behind that sort of button will actually do what you think (close the pop up) or do something else (e.g. Download malware). My general rule is to not click anything on adverts, including buttons that may or may not be close buttons.

I'm glad that things will be back to normal today.

I am having the same problem. It is still the 11th for some time on the west coast, One crazy work around is to shrink the display. I do it on my mac trackpad with the squeezing gesture. After a few tries I managed to squeeze the text so that the "save changes" box reappeared. Yay! If you can't do that at least copy the words you have and paste it into another document. Tomorrow you can paste it back in without any loss.

I am otherwise grateful for the banners and sympathetic to software designers that can't test enough. Live and learn…

I am also very annoyed about it, it is distracting, and can be only minimized. Can not be closed

It indeed covers the Save button even when minimized. You can make it go away if you type the following in your JavaScript console: $('#tdwfb-container').hide()

In an ironic turn of events, this became the day Skritter users fought back :)

^ +1

^^ +1! Lol