New ads?

BugBoy

I've been seeing some banner ads at the top of the forums since last night, and I was a bit surprised
, since I'd never seen them here before. They're pretty inconsistent. Sometimes they load, other times there's only a blank space
.
Is this a new thing (which would be cool) or is some weird bit of adware causing my computer to give me ads where they're not supposed to be ( this would not be cool)?

Xaquin

yeah I'm getting this too

"sell my knowledge" indeed

anyone that knows me knows I have no knowledge worth selling.

Enc

Also getting them. Sometimes it's just an empty bar area (like an indentation) where they would otherwise be, though.

fightinfilipino

if you use Chrome, this could be a case of one of your extensions "going rogue": http://discuss.howtogeek.com/t/warning-your-browser-extensions-are-spying-on-you/12394

BouwsT

I've seen them, using Firefox.

Tube

I could use browser information from people who are seeing these. As far as I know we have no new ads, but stranger things have happened.

Margaret

Looks like this on Android, Chrome 39. Not enjoying the flashing "NEW" text in the ad.

BugBoy

I'm getting them on chrome and safari.

Enc

Chrome here, exactly as Margaret shows

Mayabird

Firefox, ditto.

Tube

Yeah, it's not us. Something hinky is going on.

knitdan

I've seen it, I'm on Safari. It's not every time, most of the time I don't even get a banner up there.

ASimPerson

I browsed around a bit on Chrome with ABP disabled and finally saw it. Here are some deets.

The image URL is http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/386203output.gif
The link goes to http:// flitsoo.com/?refa=pa (I broke it on purpose)

Tube

This is weird. I'm bringing in clever people to help.

Bowen

I tooled around for 10 or so minutes on a fresh IE... got nothing.

It seems to be related to a flash update?

http://forum.maplewoodonline.com/discussion/112745

I guess flash is a thing on android so that would explain it. I don't have flash installed at all except via chrome so that seems to fit. Maybe remove flashplayer if it's installed on your system to see if that fixes any issues you guys are having?

LuvTheMonkey

Searching Google for 'flitsoo.com' seems to return some results on a messsage board run for some towns in New Jersey reporting the same thing. Their users seem to have reported it in multiple desktop browsers and even on iPhone.

http://forum.millburnonline.com/discussion/112745

Xaquin

Current firefox here as well

malwarebytes, adaware, and avast don't pick up anything on my end

Bowen

Xaquin wrote: »

Current firefox here as well

malwarebytes, adaware, and avast don't pick up anything on my end

It may not be flagging your anti-virals, try removing adobe flashplayer and see if that fixes it.

Xaquin

I disabled flash in the browser and it remains

or did you mean completely uninstall it?

Bowen

Xaquin wrote: »

I disabled flash in the browser and it remains

or did you mean completely uninstall it?

Yeah kebosh the whole thing. I am wondering if it's some shitware that got paired with it somehow.

Enc

This also happens to me about 1 in 3 pageviews. Chrome. I have no addons beyond vanilla download. The void still shows up, but with no advertisement. It's been mentioned a bunch but I figured you might want a screencap.

Bowen

Yeah I figured that was norm, it's been like that ever since the kickstarter thing right? IE shows the same thing, just that blank voidspace.

Butler For Life #1

The empty box has been there ever since the PA DVD advertisement went away, to my knowledge.

ASimPerson

I've never seen it in Firefox. I actually have Penny Arcade whitelisted in this ABP, but I still use NoScript. I currently have pa-promos.appspot.com and google-analytics.com blocked in NoScript.

Redthirst

Using Firefox, just installed lates Flash update, not seeing anything.
For people who do see them, why not just use adblock until someone figures out what causes it?