banner ads in posts

[junkeymonkey]

here today I see that opening a thread I now get ad's in individual posts in the thread.. is this something new or what??

 

[Gam3r01]

Are you logged in? If you are try re logging. Thats how threads are for people who dont have an account with us. (Unless something changed, It hasnt happened to me today)

 

[junkeymonkey]

ya logged in and all there showing up in the bottom right corner of the post above the reply to ??? and the edit bbb '' blocks are bbut if I refresh the thread there gone ?? this one here is doing it from amazon.com in the dave218 post

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2208855/gpu-driver-update.html

 

[USAFRet]

ya logged in and all there showing up in the bottom right corner of the post above the reply to ??? and the edit bbb '' blocks are bbut if I refresh the thread there gone ?? this one here is doing it from amazon.com in the dave218 post

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2208855/gpu-driver-update.html

Can you do a screenshot? I'm not seeing any ad on that thread.

 

[Gam3r01]

Thats odd, I dont get any ads, but I do see a gap under his sig, that really shouldn't be there(edit, I think it should be there). With and without adblock it dosent show up.
I would just use adblockplus and try it then.

 

[junkeymonkey]

ya I'm not set up for screen shots here or I would but as I said sometimes its there some times its not then I don't know if its something he had added on his own ?? I'm pulling up some threads to see if it reoccurs on them or not now..

 

[Gam3r01]

Just hit the print screen button on the keyboard and paste into paint, upload to imgur if you have to

 

[junkeymonkey]

that's ok I'm not doing all that sorry but as an example if you look at blackbirds post in the bottom right corner hes got that toms hardware thing and this is where the ads are showing up. also I went back to the link I posted above and now the ad is gone like I said its there one time gone the next and then its back..


blackbirds example post on where the ads are showing
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2208844/wifi-card-good.html

 

[Gam3r01]

Those are just custom gifs he has uploaded in his sig.

 

[junkeymonkey]

its a open adclick to amazon.. I thought I been seeing this most of today in threads but as I said some tims there there some times not i'll look in to that screenshot deal I just don't care for going theough 3ed party sites like imgur and doing accounts with them seemed like I read there eulas and got turned off from doing that..

 

[USAFRet]

imagur doesn't require an account. I use it ALL the time. And a logged in user should not see any ads from Toms.
If it is an ad as part of a user sig, that is a whole different issue. And I'm still not seeing it.

 

[junkeymonkey]

ok let me go and look imagur over ,but as I said the ads are there one minute and gone the next like I can open the thread 10 times but the ad may only show up 2 of the 10 times

 

[Gam3r01]

Hmm, I dont think I have seen that before.

 

[junkeymonkey]

ok did the imagur thing if I catch it doing it i'll post the shot thanks for the reply's

 

[junkeymonkey]

screenshot of ads in post

http://i.imgur.com/oFaIqL3.jpg

 

[Gam3r01]

I have never seen that. It looks like they are supposed to be related to the threads (Which its not even the board mentioned in his system in the pic)
I think USAF is going to have to take over, because that dosent seem like it should be there.

 

[junkeymonkey]

ya like I said I can open the linlk 20 times but it just shows up so often and I'm trying to catch another one but its like bobbin for apples in a swimming pool and this been only today I have been seeing this

 

[jpishgar]

That's really unusual. I don't think I've seen that style of ad on our site before, and as a logged in registered user with expert badges, you certainly shouldn't be seeing any ads in the forum.

I'll forward this over to the devs for investigation. Might be worthwhile to check stuff on your end in your browser as well, if something related to an extension poked it's way in with a bit of malware. I've had that happen to me recently with a pretty respected extension that started interjecting amazon ads here and there in Chrome.

-JP

 

[junkeymonkey]

I get them in the articles that they cover up the graphs of like benchmark results or bring up the page and have to -x- out the ad blocking the whole main page

 

[Gam3r01]

That sounds like some sort of adware/malware then. If it dosent fit correctly that is usually a big giveaway.

 

[junkeymonkey]

spent the last 2hrs scanning all clean for whats that worth and I'm not one for going to odd sites or downloading as you can tell I did not want to do that imager thing to post the screenshot thst how much I look things over and don't click I agree. but that's still no guarantee something slipped in

 

[Gam3r01]

Yeah I try to be like you, if a site is even mildly sketchy I typically avoid it. That dosent mean I dont get adware/viruses. Ive had adware from an adobe update.

 

[junkeymonkey]

since I started here at toms I never been ad free as they claim no big deal but this is the first time I got one in a post..

 

[Gam3r01]

Yeah something is hiding somewhere then, you shouldnt have a single ad as a member.

 

[junkeymonkey]

one thing they seem to have in common is ---- Copyright 2014 DoubleClick, a division of Google Inc