Okay, I'm guilty as charged, I use Adblock Plus.
Anyway, I noticed when Adblock is enabled on this site there is an ad that shows up that covers the thread title. If I right click it's as if the ad was never there (context menu is the same as right clicking on empty space) and same thing with middle click; hovering the mouse over the ad doesn't show the URL. Basically, it's like the ad isn't even meant to belong there.
Refer the image below:
Note, this only happens if you're not logged in. For some reason the forums look different when logged in.
WIth Adblock off it looks normal:
My question is, is this intentional by Tom's Hardware, or is it malware because I'm sure there is some malware that inserts ads into web pages. However I've only seen this happen on the Tom's Hardware forums, and in Google Chrome, not in other browsers. Very strange. Can somebody shed some light on what's going on?
Anyway, I noticed when Adblock is enabled on this site there is an ad that shows up that covers the thread title. If I right click it's as if the ad was never there (context menu is the same as right clicking on empty space) and same thing with middle click; hovering the mouse over the ad doesn't show the URL. Basically, it's like the ad isn't even meant to belong there.
Refer the image below:

Note, this only happens if you're not logged in. For some reason the forums look different when logged in.
WIth Adblock off it looks normal:

My question is, is this intentional by Tom's Hardware, or is it malware because I'm sure there is some malware that inserts ads into web pages. However I've only seen this happen on the Tom's Hardware forums, and in Google Chrome, not in other browsers. Very strange. Can somebody shed some light on what's going on?