I'm not sure what the real definitions are for all these terms. I used to get ads at the top of the screen in the forum section and ads down and across on the home page. They would sometimes move or flash on the spot, but I have never had anything jump at me onto the screen which I would have to click off, and anything that I see by way of advertisement I would have to click on to see what it really is.
But that was before my Dad went to town and bought add blockers, a firewall, spam killers, virus killers and detectors. Infact everything going. I'm not sure what prevents what. If you wanna know what we use to not have any adds or pop ups I'll ask my Dad for you.
I use the proper blockers to stop everything. I get totally nothing but the SimV stuff on here. No adds or pop ups whatsoever. 8) I would suggest that most free dowload thingys are not 100% effetive.
There is a saying you get what you pay for. I'll ask my Dad what we have, I don't think it's that expensive. Depends how much these things annoy you though. I just couldn't tolerate going on here with them all on.
regards
Ben