: I never got the floating Ad, but I assume the ad is triggered on a cookie (didn't check to see if it was longterm or session yet). The pound sign (#) is there for adding hash tags to

@Pierce454

I never got the floating Ad, but I assume the ad is triggered on a cookie (didn't check to see if it was longterm or session yet). The pound sign (#) is there for adding hash tags to the page. I use this a ton to pass along javascript variables to functions on the page. It's similar to passing variables the normal way ../somepage.html?x=1&y=2 except it's a little more friendly to javascript.

Also these work the old fashion way as anchor links. If I wanted you to jump to a specific section of the page after it loads I could push the anchor tag in the URL forcing your viewport to jump down the page to the specific point.

Personally, I'm guessing a link on that ad has a link that is incorrectly configured to point to href="#" and the onclick event is causing the function. This is a really common mistake when using javascript with a function and not making it return false to avoid applying the hash tag.

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