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The Ad Reporting Thread

Landy828

Landy828

Member
Oct 26, 2017
13,395
Clemson, SC
Can barely open any page without this stupid ad opening up.

Happening to other members too.

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b-dubs

b-dubs

That's some catch, that catch-22
General Manager
Oct 25, 2017
32,721
Ok, we are aware of the problem and are contacting the ad agency in order to take care of it.
 
Solidsnakejej

Solidsnakejej

Member
Oct 25, 2017
13,763
Fort Lauderdale
808s & Villainy

808s & Villainy

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
42,700
I'm on desktop gaming side and getting an "Xfinity" ad. I"ll try and actually save a screenshot next time it happens

edit: Ugh, got it again

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New Donker

New Donker

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 26, 2017
5,355
808s & Villainy said:
I'm on desktop gaming side and getting an "Xfinity" ad. I"ll try and actually save a screenshot next time it happens

edit: Ugh, got it again

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I got this and it continuously opened new tabs until I closed out the entire browser.
 

BlackPizzaCrocodile

Member
Sep 28, 2019
240
808s & Villainy said:
I'm on desktop gaming side and getting an "Xfinity" ad. I"ll try and actually save a screenshot next time it happens

edit: Ugh, got it again

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I got one exactly like this a few minutes ago.
 
DrArchon

DrArchon

Member
Oct 25, 2017
15,485
Solidsnakejej said:
Got a ad in the Kojipro Covid thread

Browser: Chrome
Platform: Desktop
Offending Ad:

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Got this same ad on the main Gaming Forum page.

Browser: Chrome
Platform: Desktop

Edit: Just got the same ad two other times now. Giant Bomb OT and the Modern Warfare 2 Remastered thread. Can't tell what ad is causing it though.
 
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JustinH

JustinH

Member
Oct 27, 2017
10,392
Got this ad today (at least once...)

It opened another tab, so I guess it's not technically a "pop-up," but before I actually got it, ESET blocked it and I had to "Ignore and continue" to actually go to the ad's url.
I say "at least once," because the other one or two times I've seen the "ESET block screen," I just kinda let it be blocked, but it still takes over my browser and makes me lose my spot in the forums where I was at the time.


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edit: Oh, seems like a popular ad lately, lol.
edit2: oh sorry, I forgot to mention the browser I'm using. It's the Chromium-based Edge browser on a Windows 10 PC.

edit 3: Got it again today, with the url...

Don't have a screenshot because I didn't "ignore and continue" the ESET block. Even when I hit "go back," I get taken to the thread list and "lose my spot." Same platform as before. Was browsing the first page of this thread.

edit4: and again in this thread.

This time the URL is

same platform, same browser

edit 5:

yadda yadda yadda... going to the Gaming forum thread list.
 
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entremet

entremet

You wouldn't toast a NES cartridge
Member
Oct 26, 2017
60,004
I'm getting tons of redirects. May just log out and lurk more lol. It's that bad. Walmart, Altice.
 
mysteriousmage09

mysteriousmage09

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,853
Usually i'm calm about this but seriously....how in the flying fuck are the vip sweepstakes site redirects back AGAIN!? This has been on and off for months now and at least the 5th time this shit has come back. Do you have any quality re-assurance for this crap or do you just allow any ads to go through?
 
cakely

cakely

Member
Oct 27, 2017
13,149
Chicago
Yep, I've been getting the same redirects to "fortunatefellow.xyz" domain urls. I click into a thread and suddenly my tab has been replaced with the contents of an obvious scam url. It's happened three times in the last day or so.

This is browsing with Firefox on Windows 10.

Sorry mods, I also used your "contact us" link before I found this thread. Feel free to ignore that mail.

EDIT: And it happened again while I was in this thread.
 
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b-dubs

b-dubs

That's some catch, that catch-22
General Manager
Oct 25, 2017
32,721
Sent an email to the ad company, they'll be on it pretty quick.
 
shrapnelmagnet

shrapnelmagnet

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,324
Vancouver
This isn't so much the ads themselves but a couple time recently, the ads seem to cycle quickly in such a way that they constantly shift the window up and down. Especially after a load but I kinda expect that. As I type this, the website is jumping slightly every 10 or so seconds as the ad switches and loads in the "report ad" text or something. I find it super distracting. It's not 100% of the time, though. Anyway.
 
Untogether

Untogether

Member
Oct 29, 2017
350
I'm getting a bunch of redirects today, the most recent from the Gaming forum home page and took me here, which seems to be the same .xyz domain but all mine start eu.somethingorother.xyz as I'm in Belgium. Can't tell you ad that prompted this one as when I hit back to Era there were no ads on the page!

Warning on the link as AVG reports them.
 
DRock

DRock

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
1,166
Untogether said:
I'm getting a bunch of redirects today, the most recent from the Gaming forum home page and took me here, which seems to be the same .xyz domain but all mine start eu.somethingorother.xyz as I'm in Belgium. Can't tell you ad that prompted this one as when I hit back to Era there were no ads on the page!

Warning on the link as AVG reports them.
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I'm getting a bunch on my mobile device as well. The site is unusable right now as it redirects like every few clicks wether I'm in a thread or at the forum level. Just started today.
 
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