These two adds run at the bottom right of the site constantly, making he site very hard to use. The have audio and attempt to lock the screen to them. If you can get to the reply box you can start typing, if you type enough gibberish it'll allow you to use the forum like normal. Reloading the pages doesn't always work as the same add usually seems to pop up on the first reload.
The Arco video advertisement forces the browser down to the bottom of the screen and essentially hijacks your ability to do anything by repeatedly doing so until the ad is finished. Another ad will come up allowing you to navigate again, but 15 seconds later the Arco ad comes up again and forces you back to the bottom. Are they that bitter that crude oil just went under $40 a barrel???
On a positive note, at least the video ads are crashing at a lower rate and subsequently I lose a lot less posts due to the site crashing my browser...
While browsing on my android i had a notification pop up that said I had won a watch etc and had cancel and ok buttons. I clicked cancel and got redirected tohttp://giveaway-day.com-us-m.net/news/phone/usa/phone_us_applewatch01_tt/?opt1=www.adtrks.net/datt/nav/go/27574/27576?v=50464306&json={"offers":{"opt1":{"link":"www.adtrks.net/datt/nav/go/27574/27576?v=50464306","price":"-","name":"-"}},"config":{"lang":"","country":""}}&client={"info":{"country":[{"isoCode":"US","name":"United%20States"}],"state":[{"isoCode":"NC","name":"North%20Carolina"}],"subdivision":[{"isoCode":"NC","name":"North%20Carolina"}],"cp":"27534"}}.
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While reading a thread on my phone, I was randomly redirected to some 'mobilechecker' site that was telling me how my phone could be infected blah blah blah. So I smashed the back arrow a thousand times because it kept reloading itself.
We've been unable to find these ads.
They are most likely regional, which makes them much harder.
(IE: They won't come up for any of us in the US to capture)
Is it redirecting you (ie: you go straight to that page), or is it grabbing the screen (ie: a big ad that fills the screen, but you're still on our page)?
If it's grabbing the screen, can you screenshot?
(iPhone: Power + Home, Android: Usually Camera + Power )
There is an Intel ad with a woman with red lines on her face that is popping up when I first get to the site. It takes up the whole page, and since I'm on my phone if I'm zoomed in looking at the spoiler or most recent topics it locks me up and I can't even close the page. Very annoying
I've been getting the same Intel add durring moblie browsing. It takes up the whole screen, can't close it until it fully loads, takes forever to load, and follows you scrolls. Really annoying. Next time I see it I'll screen cap it.
Just had a bad browser redirect, along with a forced opening of my Google Play store. I closed out of play store before I saw what it was trying to sell me, but I grabbed the URL I was redirected to. This happened whie surfing in the modern forum, not sure if that info helps or not.
The ads on this site are making browsing horrendous. Seriously, there needs to be a better ad approval policy in place. I will stop using the site if I'm continually redirected or the App Store is forced open on my mobile device for much longer. Sorry I'm not providing URL's or screen shots. I just don't feel that's my duty. You guys are just taking money from anyone who will give it to you, hosting their ads, and only looking back when we speak up about it.
The mobile experiance has gone down recently. Every other page attempts to open my play store, and it's no longer just one app, I'm getting redirected to all different kinds of apps. I've browsed other sites with no issue, and my phones anti virus isn't picking anything up.
I've been almost completely unable to view these forums on mobile lately, there's a sweepstakes as that pops up on what seems like every other page, and seems to be getting worse. Usually I can back up and try again and it will let me view, however today it was happening every time I tried to go to the forums home for at least 20 attempts over about 2 hours. I ended up having to go in through the recent posts list and backtrack.
The URL is below, however it may be slightly different as the ad itself is a bit different from the past week or so. I took a screenshot too and will try to post it tomorrow.
The mobile experiance has gone down recently. Every other page attempts to open my play store, and it's no longer just one app, I'm getting redirected to all different kinds of apps. I've browsed other sites with no issue, and my phones anti virus isn't picking anything up.
Agreed. Lots of redirects and screen grabbing recently... basically makes the site unusable for mobile browsing. There really should be a proactive screening process instead of retroactive fixes.
I don't know if this is a problem based on the advertisements or not, but it seems like every time i load a page it lags out terribly (on desktop). It's doing it right now as I type this. Probably going to take me 10 minutes to finish because of how bad it's lagging the input when I type. My internet connection is fine from what I've checked. Thought I'd throw this out there and see if anyone responds or has had similar issues.
I don't know if this is a problem based on the advertisements or not, but it seems like every time i load a page it lags out terribly (on desktop). It's doing it right now as I type this. Probably going to take me 10 minutes to finish because of how bad it's lagging the input when I type. My internet connection is fine from what I've checked. Thought I'd throw this out there and see if anyone responds or has had similar issues.
If this happens every once in a while, then it is likely an ad gone awry. (possibly not even a "bad ad" and just one that gets stuck in a loop)
If it's doing it every time you load a page, then you have something that's trying to "do a bunch of stuff" on your page loads. While there's several javascript files that load, and the ads can do some stuff, this should never take multiple minutes and slow down your typing to a crawl. Something else is going on. The first thing to try is a CTRL+F5 to refresh the cache of our page and download new copies of everything. If this fails, try disabling any browser extensions, try it in safe mode, etc. Something's running amok; the hard part is pinning down what.
I don't know if this is a problem based on the advertisements or not, but it seems like every time i load a page it lags out terribly (on desktop). It's doing it right now as I type this. Probably going to take me 10 minutes to finish because of how bad it's lagging the input when I type. My internet connection is fine from what I've checked. Thought I'd throw this out there and see if anyone responds or has had similar issues.
If this happens every once in a while, then it is likely an ad gone awry. (possibly not even a "bad ad" and just one that gets stuck in a loop)
If it's doing it every time you load a page, then you have something that's trying to "do a bunch of stuff" on your page loads. While there's several javascript files that load, and the ads can do some stuff, this should never take multiple minutes and slow down your typing to a crawl. Something else is going on. The first thing to try is a CTRL+F5 to refresh the cache of our page and download new copies of everything. If this fails, try disabling any browser extensions, try it in safe mode, etc. Something's running amok; the hard part is pinning down what.
I only had the basic google extensions for chrome, but disabling them seems to have alleviated the problem a bit. Thanks Feyd
I had to stop browsing on my android today because I kept getting redirected to rareclick.xyz which had the google logo as well as telling me that my battery was damaged and needed to be repaired and then later that I had viruses. Not only was it intrusive but I'm pretty sure it's illegal.
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I had to stop browsing on my android today because I kept getting redirected to rareclick.xyz which had the google logo as well as telling me that my battery was damaged and needed to be repaired and then later that I had viruses. Not only was it intrusive but I'm pretty sure it's illegal.
I had the same ad.
The first ad that came up came from go.mobisynergy.com for a virus "infecting" my phone. The popup locks the browser unless you hit OK.
To help others. Force quit the app. Turn off WiFi and 3/4G. Then relaunch the browser. No internet access equals no popup. You can close the offending window without clicking OK and being taken somewhere else.
In any case, ten minutes later, a similar locking popup from rareclick.xyz.
I believe they're related since flipping through the browser history showed the new browser session loaded mobisynergy before loading rareclick.
The first ad that came up came from go.mobisynergy.com for a virus "infecting" my phone. The popup locks the browser unless you hit OK.
To help others. Force quit the app. Turn off WiFi and 3/4G. Then relaunch the browser. No internet access equals no popup. You can close the offending window without clicking OK and being taken somewhere else.
In any case, ten minutes later, a similar locking popup from rareclick.xyz.
I believe they're related since flipping through the browser history showed the new browser session loaded mobisynergy before loading rareclick.
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These two adds run at the bottom right of the site constantly, making he site very hard to use. The have audio and attempt to lock the screen to them. If you can get to the reply box you can start typing, if you type enough gibberish it'll allow you to use the forum like normal. Reloading the pages doesn't always work as the same add usually seems to pop up on the first reload.
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On a positive note, at least the video ads are crashing at a lower rate and subsequently I lose a lot less posts due to the site crashing my browser...
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They are most likely regional, which makes them much harder.
(IE: They won't come up for any of us in the US to capture)
Can you give me a screen shot?
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If it's grabbing the screen, can you screenshot?
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It's been reported and hopefully will be killed soon (if it isn't already).
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Good news is I haven't seen the Intel ad!
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The URL is below, however it may be slightly different as the ad itself is a bit different from the past week or so. I took a screenshot too and will try to post it tomorrow.
http://mtz.adsrocket.net/?utm_term=11276214870&clickverify=1&utm_content=c3fbc0c6c0caac9ca2909291a692909dba8bb8d7cbd3d0bdc7ddd4d4d0dedad0eeea
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If it's doing it every time you load a page, then you have something that's trying to "do a bunch of stuff" on your page loads. While there's several javascript files that load, and the ads can do some stuff, this should never take multiple minutes and slow down your typing to a crawl. Something else is going on. The first thing to try is a CTRL+F5 to refresh the cache of our page and download new copies of everything. If this fails, try disabling any browser extensions, try it in safe mode, etc. Something's running amok; the hard part is pinning down what.
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I only had the basic google extensions for chrome, but disabling them seems to have alleviated the problem a bit. Thanks Feyd
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I had the same ad.
The first ad that came up came from go.mobisynergy.com for a virus "infecting" my phone. The popup locks the browser unless you hit OK.
To help others. Force quit the app. Turn off WiFi and 3/4G. Then relaunch the browser. No internet access equals no popup. You can close the offending window without clicking OK and being taken somewhere else.
In any case, ten minutes later, a similar locking popup from rareclick.xyz.
I believe they're related since flipping through the browser history showed the new browser session loaded mobisynergy before loading rareclick.
Same problems still on android.
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