Report bad ads here (popups, videos, etc.)

Costello · Dec 20, 2017

hello,

We have recently switched ad platforms (we're with Freestar now). Thanks to ads we can pay for server bills, we can afford nice prizes for competitions, we can reward our staff, and more.

While the new platform is great for us financially, it comes with some caveats. Their filtering system isn't perfect and sometimes some bad ads slip past their filters.

If you get an ad such as:
- popups (a popup ad is an actual new page opening up in your browser, not a full-screen ad overlay: those are supposed to show up on mobile once per session, and they have a "close" button)
- browser hijacks: you were visiting gbatemp and were suddenly redirected to another site
- ads with audio
- ads with videos that have audio, or without audio but that make your browser scroll up or down

Please report these bad ads here: click here to access the bad ad submission form (alt URL: here https://gbatemp.net/reportbadads.html ) You need to access this from the same browser that received the bad ad, because the form will automatically identify the last ads that you have been getting. Every report will be useful and will help not only on GBAtemp but all other sites on the same network.

Thanks for your contributions!

Costello · Jun 29, 2018

SirNapkin1334 said:
I have a problem. On my iPhone (using Firefox), the site is laggy. Scrolling is slow, buttons are slow to respond, but worst of all there’s extreme lag when entering messages (like as I am doing right now). So bad that the caps that should only be one letter carries over to multiple, sometimes it completely freezes and types the characters and shows the animation several seconds after I touched the screen, and Predictive acts glitchy when combined with that. I’m blaming it on layered ads. You see, there’s this ad always at the bottom of the screen, it sticks to the bottom when scrolling (does that make sense?). It has a little X button that’s kinda hard to hit, but if you hit it, sometimes instead of going away, it changes to a different ad, as if it had been removed but there was another one underneath. I think this is happening with all the ads on the site, hence the lag. I’d rather not pay $10 to remove the lag-causing ads just to browse the site easier, so, I was wondering if you could fix it.

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Also there is extreme lag (like the freezing I mentioned earlier) when an ad changes or appears (yes, the ad that I mentioned with the X sometimes reappears after a while despite not having reloaded).

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ALSo, Kritik Wave basalen A

we are going to change ad networks very soon (in coming weeks) to address all those issues, we'll update here when it's done

SirNapkin1334 · Jun 29, 2018

sometimes the site is so paralyzed by lag that it almost completely stops at least to big parts of it, at leat big parts kf it:
oh, great, my phone has randomly decided to use mp4 now and not mov, so i can’t upload that upload that? You’ll just ist have to take my word for it my word for it

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ALSO word or phrases repeated is not me, it’s the lag fuckingwith my phone / predictive

SG854 · Jul 2, 2018

I keep getting anti virus popups browsing this site. I goes to a new page automatically.

And also my notebook keeps getting messages that browsing here is using significant energy, and things starts to move slow and lag browsing this site, and it says I need to close this site. When I don't come to this site things run fine. It never did this before.

Quantumcat · Jul 2, 2018

Report them here https://gbatemp.net/threads/report-bad-ads-here-popups-videos-etc.492123/

Costello · Jul 2, 2018

SG854 said:
I keep getting anti virus popups browsing this site. I goes to a new page automatically.

And also my notebook keeps getting messages that browsing here is using significant energy, and things starts to move slow and lag browsing this site, and it says I need to close this site. When I don't come to this site things run fine. It never did this before.

do you know for sure that this comes from ads on this website? couldnt it be an issue with your computer getting a virus or something?
but regardless please use the form given here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/report-bad-ads-here-popups-videos-etc.492123/

and also please note we are changing ad platforms (will happen during July) so we're hoping to get rid of these bad ads for good sometime soon.

SG854 · Jul 2, 2018

Costello said:
do you know for sure that this comes from ads on this website? couldnt it be an issue with your computer getting a virus or something?
but regardless please use the form given here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/report-bad-ads-here-popups-videos-etc.492123/

and also please note we are changing ad platforms (will happen during July) so we're hoping to get rid of these bad ads for good sometime soon.

It only happens when I visit this site. And the popups automatically take me out of this site. So I have to click Back Page just to go back to this site.

smileyhead · Jul 6, 2018

In awe at the size of this lad. Absolute unit!
(Reported.)

SirNapkin1334 · Jul 8, 2018

@Costello can you try to do the switching of platforms sooner? I got redirected a few minutes ago, this is the second time it’s happened...
It was to a site pretending to be amazon CLaiming i had won an iPhone X, Galaxy S8, or $1000 gift card, creating an unclosable popup that prompts you to press OK to claim your prize (NEVER hit ok by the way, doing that will do bad things).

Costello · Jul 8, 2018

SirNapkin1334 said:
@Costello can you try to do the switching of platforms sooner? I got redirected a few minutes ago, this is the second time it’s happened...
It was to a site pretending to be amazon CLaiming i had won an iPhone X, Galaxy S8, or $1000 gift card, creating an unclosable popup that prompts you to press OK to claim your prize (NEVER hit ok by the way, doing that will do bad things).

did you use the report form?

SirNapkin1334 · Jul 9, 2018

Costello said:
did you use the report form?

Yes, every time, but there hasn’t been much change. It’s the same thing, just a different website.

SirNapkin1334 · Jul 15, 2018

I just...why...

And less than 5 minutes later...

Freestar is FUCKED. I used the report form on both, but they never seem to go away.

Bonus: a VPN wouldn’t even “repair” your phone - for those who don’t know, a VPN just redirects your internet traffic through an alternate server first, so you can’t be tracked.
Also, I’ll add, I’ve never visited any adult sites on my phone.

shaunj66 · Jul 15, 2018

I can only apologise for the inconvenience. We are trialling a new network soon which should be free of bad ads. This is a problem we take seriously and shouldn't be happening.

Ericthegreat · Aug 1, 2018

Code leaking from an ad?

Costello · Aug 1, 2018

yes, thanks Eric.
we are switching to the other platform right now, the new ads will enable soon

Costello · Aug 2, 2018

SirNapkin1334 said:
Yes, every time, but there hasn’t been much change. It’s the same thing, just a different website.

We have switched ad platforms since August 1st.
We have been told that there should be no bad ads at all, I hope this is true.
Next month we'll try yet another platform too - we just want to figure out whats the most profitable platform but also, importantly, which of them offers the least amount of disturbing/annoying ads.

pickmh · Aug 8, 2018

The issue of popup ads on mobile has been brought up a few weeks ago.

The Catboy · Aug 15, 2018

So I noticed this happened when I was trying to scroll through a page

The video actually kept scrolling with me as I tried to navigate through the page.

Song of storms · Aug 15, 2018

This whole thread is why I Adblock.

smileyhead · Aug 15, 2018

Song of storms said:
This whole thread is why I Adblock.

I'm not using AdBlock on here on purpose. This is a community I love and I think deserves support.
This whole thread is them trying to make ads not annoying.

Song of storms · Aug 15, 2018

smileyhead said:
I'm not using AdBlock on here on purpose. This is a community I love and I think deserves support.
This whole thread is them trying to make ads not annoying.

My ease of mind of knowing that I won't get a hack attempt by some malicious code in some malicious ad is worth more than my contribution to the site of a few cents per click.

I get that not many legit ad platforms may want to sponsor a hacking website, but alternatives exist. Could go with Amazon reflink program, for example.

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