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Title: Sketchy ad on forum?
Post by: HamsterStache on February 26, 2019, 03:07:47 PM
Not sure what this is supposed to be an ad for, but it seems sketchy as anything, at best.
Title: Re: Sketchy ad on forum?
Post by: Dicey on February 26, 2019, 05:50:41 PM
I don't want to enlarge it for fear of clicking through, but what I can see doesn't look great, so I passed it on to the mods.
Title: Re: Sketchy ad on forum?
Post by: katscratch on February 26, 2019, 08:52:15 PM
Is that an ad or new secret subforums that are the reason pages crash all the time?? :p
Title: Re: Sketchy ad on forum?
Post by: Dicey on February 26, 2019, 09:18:04 PM
Quote from: katscratch on February 26, 2019, 08:52:15 PM
Is that an ad or new secret subforums that are the reason pages crash all the time?? :p
OMG, that's it!
Title: Re: Sketchy ad on forum?
Post by: nereo on February 27, 2019, 06:50:07 AM
Quote from: katscratch on February 26, 2019, 08:52:15 PM
Is that an ad or new secret subforums that are the reason pages crash all the time?? :p
so others have been experiencing the frequent page-crashes too?  I thought it was due to my VPN and firewall, but maybe it's more universal...

we had similar problems several years ago before they switched servers.  Wonder if that's happening again.
Title: Re: Sketchy ad on forum?
Post by: arebelspy on February 28, 2019, 09:03:07 PM
Can anyone else confirm seeing this?

My guess is you have something installed on your computer putting injecting ads--you may need to run an adware scan.
Title: Re: Sketchy ad on forum?
Post by: katscratch on March 01, 2019, 10:21:36 AM
His screenshot shows the AdChoice logo that the current ad does. When I logged in today there was an ad for a very questionable-looking "online friend service" with suggestively posed teen-looking girls. My searches on this computer are all related to medical devices so Google is doing a terrible job targeting me if that's the aim.
Title: Re: Sketchy ad on forum?
Post by: dougules on March 01, 2019, 11:10:41 AM
Quote from: katscratch on March 01, 2019, 10:21:36 AM
His screenshot shows the AdChoice logo that the current ad does. When I logged in today there was an ad for a very questionable-looking "online friend service" with suggestively posed teen-looking girls. My searches on this computer are all related to medical devices so Google is doing a terrible job targeting me if that's the aim.

Tangentially I keep getting ads for a fancy toy top probably from having posted in the "Top Is In" thread so much. 
Title: Re: Sketchy ad on forum?
Post by: soccerluvof4 on March 02, 2019, 04:15:11 AM
Quote from: katscratch on February 26, 2019, 08:52:15 PM
Is that an ad or new secret subforums that are the reason pages crash all the time?? :p



That has been happening to me alot lately. Cant move around on the forums without it knocking me out. Sometimes if I post a response will take two three times to go through. But i havent had the add issue.
Title: Re: Sketchy ad on forum?
Post by: BTDretire on July 04, 2019, 01:50:37 PM
I have Adblock on my computer, I never see any adds on MMM forum.
None on Youtube videos either. Seems to work unobtrusively.
I also run Ghostery.