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The Ad Reporting Thread
- Thread starter Cerium
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Just wanted to let people know that I suffered no redirects at all today. Good job if that's Era staff work!
Got this one just now and jumped to Firefox with some adblock, suggested the last time we had this outbreak.Redirect to this address.
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Redirect on Android Chrome:
http://us.rewardearners.com/en/a/9b...tnership DBA Verizon Wireless&uclick=twk2rndz
http://us.rewardearners.com/en/a/9b...tnership DBA Verizon Wireless&uclick=twk2rndz
There's definitely something funky going on with Era's ads. As of today I didn't get any redirects but I often get scenarios now where I don't see any ads on Era despite it being whitelisted in uBlock Origin. At first I thought maybe ads were temporarily disabled due to the redirect issues but I quickly noticed something else must be going on.
I updated to Firefox 67 two days ago and enabled the new WebRender which has been issue free as far as I could tell but tonight I've been wondering why my CPU cooler howls up intermittently despite me not doing anything resource intensive. Tracking it down I noticed whenever I had an Era tab active Firefox would go as high as 40% CPU usage on my 8600k just displaying a static page without any ads and it was only Era that showed this behavior. A bit stumped I tried various things including blocking trackers which didn't change anything so in the end I pulled Era off my uBlock whitelist temporarily and low and behold I'm sitting at 2% CPU usage now writing this post without any weird spikes.
I have whitelisted Era now again and will just switch to another non-Era tab before I game but please look into this. If I can help anyhow diagnose the issue please let me know too!
EDIT: Alright it's not just the ads! After sending this post Firefox was at 10% CPU, I switched to a Reddit tab, 1% CPU, switched back to here 10% CPU, what's going on here?
I updated to Firefox 67 two days ago and enabled the new WebRender which has been issue free as far as I could tell but tonight I've been wondering why my CPU cooler howls up intermittently despite me not doing anything resource intensive. Tracking it down I noticed whenever I had an Era tab active Firefox would go as high as 40% CPU usage on my 8600k just displaying a static page without any ads and it was only Era that showed this behavior. A bit stumped I tried various things including blocking trackers which didn't change anything so in the end I pulled Era off my uBlock whitelist temporarily and low and behold I'm sitting at 2% CPU usage now writing this post without any weird spikes.
I have whitelisted Era now again and will just switch to another non-Era tab before I game but please look into this. If I can help anyhow diagnose the issue please let me know too!
EDIT: Alright it's not just the ads! After sending this post Firefox was at 10% CPU, I switched to a Reddit tab, 1% CPU, switched back to here 10% CPU, what's going on here?
The mobile redirects are getting out of hand. This is the only site I have this problem on. At first, Chrome was able to block the redirect but not anymore. I have to close the entire tab in order to get back to the board. I'm having flashbacks to about 5 or 6 years ago when myself and others got malware from ads on GAF.
Getting that Walmart redirect pretty consistently today on mobile. Really damn annoying. Who are you all sourcing ads from for crying out loud.
EDIT: Just got it twice in two threads within five minutes of each other. I'm ducking out of the forum for the night. Ridiculous.
EDIT: Just got it twice in two threads within five minutes of each other. I'm ducking out of the forum for the night. Ridiculous.
Can the site do something about ad loading?
Nothing more annoying than the screen suddenly shift as you click something.
It is particularly bad on mobile: ads loading introduces lag into the text processor; at times kicks me out of the text box; and when it does kick me out of the text box often expands such that when trying to get back in I click the ad instead. Ads make replying on mobile a nightmare.
I've had this problem since ads launched.
Nothing more annoying than the screen suddenly shift as you click something.
It is particularly bad on mobile: ads loading introduces lag into the text processor; at times kicks me out of the text box; and when it does kick me out of the text box often expands such that when trying to get back in I click the ad instead. Ads make replying on mobile a nightmare.
I've had this problem since ads launched.
OP
OP
We looked into this extensively and unfortunately there is no perfect solution. If we implement a fixed-size box, it ends up cutting off the "Report Ad" link under the ads. We tried that solution for a while on the old design and a lot of people (quite understandably) complained about the inability to report individual ads.
More of this, I'm afraid. Now the url is this one:
And this:
Honestly this wont stop. Cant we block any ad that goes to an url with "/cor_xs/", maybe?
Iphone user here, I keep getting redirected to http://us.solarize651eo.online/cor_xs/?
Can't currently browse resetera on mobile :(
Can't currently browse resetera on mobile :(
And another one:
http://us.indigene18vc.online/cor_xs/
Is it helpful in any way to keep reporting these here, or should I just give up on visiting the site from iOS for a while?
It doesn't seem like they'll ever run out of random urls to host their redirecting ads and scam.
OP
OP
Based on the reports we've recieved so far here and in emails, it appears that this is an issue affecting specifically iOS users in your country. I've reached out to our partners about this.
Much appreciated, Cerium. I wonder if they already did something because I haven't had any trouble this morning.
I'm getting redirected to a fake "Virus Found" site. Started like a minute ago and it's in almost every thread I click.
Browser: Firefox Quantum 67 (64-bit)
Platform: Windows 10 - Desktop
Browser: Firefox Quantum 67 (64-bit)
Platform: Windows 10 - Desktop
Latest google chrome, windows 10 desktop, Belgium
Since yesterday I'm getting redirected to some sketchy sites on Era. Yesterday it was one of these fake you won an iphone things, today it's a site that doesn't load. Incredibly annoying and very persistent. It happens on almost any page and causes my browser to slow down as chrome tries to block the redirects.
I thought it was on me and did virus scans and browser resets and all that. But I see now that other people have been experiencing redirects too lately. :/
edit: I believe I've identified this ad as the malicious one, when it's present I get the redirects, on pages with other ads it doesn't happen
I don't know if that helps, but I've reported the ad and explained that I believe it's causing the redirects, I hope that does the trick
Since yesterday I'm getting redirected to some sketchy sites on Era. Yesterday it was one of these fake you won an iphone things, today it's a site that doesn't load. Incredibly annoying and very persistent. It happens on almost any page and causes my browser to slow down as chrome tries to block the redirects.
I thought it was on me and did virus scans and browser resets and all that. But I see now that other people have been experiencing redirects too lately. :/
https://www.ki0sked.com/track/b7d0c...ZDFkYjg5N2FiYzBjMThhMDg5MThmYWI5NWQzY2E&var1={sitedomain}&var6=YjY0NDA5MjgwNjkxOTE5NTE3MDg0IzE1NTk3NTAxMThANDc1MkBfNDFlZDFkYjg5N2FiYzBjMThhMDg5MThmYWI5NWQzY2E&var5=2
edit: I believe I've identified this ad as the malicious one, when it's present I get the redirects, on pages with other ads it doesn't happen
I don't know if that helps, but I've reported the ad and explained that I believe it's causing the redirects, I hope that does the trick
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Latest google chrome, windows 10 desktop, Belgium
Since yesterday I'm getting redirected to some sketchy sites on Era. Yesterday it was one of these fake you won an iphone things, today it's a site that doesn't load. Incredibly annoying and very persistent. It happens on almost any page and causes my browser to slow down as chrome tries to block the redirects.
I thought it was on me and did virus scans and browser resets and all that. But I see now that other people have been experiencing redirects too lately. :/
https://www.ki0sked.com/track/b7d0c...ZDFkYjg5N2FiYzBjMThhMDg5MThmYWI5NWQzY2E&var1={sitedomain}&var6=YjY0NDA5MjgwNjkxOTE5NTE3MDg0IzE1NTk3NTAxMThANDc1MkBfNDFlZDFkYjg5N2FiYzBjMThhMDg5MThmYWI5NWQzY2E&var5=2
edit: I believe I've identified this ad as the malicious one, when it's present I get the redirects, on pages with other ads it doesn't happen
I don't know if that helps, but I've reported the ad and explained that I believe it's causing the redirects, I hope that does the trick
This ad is definitely broken. Every time it comes up, the page keeps scrolling up and down in flashes in Chrome, making the site unusable. I have to F5 until another ad comes up. Can't even report it, because the link to report this ad is broken when you click it.
Been happening all day to me. I've had to start typing everything in Notepad++ because when it starts up it messes with your cursor focus. Please make it stop... somebody.
Not sure it's that specific ad or what though. I don't ever see any ads. The Report Ad link just constantly keeps popping up like the page is cycling through a billion broken ads and every time it tries to load a different image it causes the page to shift up and down.
I've been having redirects as well. I mostly use iOS. The last redirect was here:
Same hereYeah my access to the site has been blocked all day on mobile. It's from eu.globalcurrencyreset.icu
I can't read anything, both gaming and OT get me this pop up every time.
The redirection is getting out of control. I feel like every time I click on a thread I get sent to a sketchy survey!
Is it too much to ask to not have Cyberpunk ads on this site? I'd really rather not have to browse Era with transphobia constantly shoved in my face :/. It's been making me fairly uncomfortable.
The constant stream of threads is bad enough, but we don't even have a function to ignore individual ads. And I'd much prefer to keep supporting the site by leaving my Adblocker off...
The constant stream of threads is bad enough, but we don't even have a function to ignore individual ads. And I'd much prefer to keep supporting the site by leaving my Adblocker off...
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