Every so often, surfing the forums manages to trigger my antivirus now. I’m running Kaspersky and Ad Block Plus, and every so often it beeps and tells me it blocked the download of “not-a-virus:HEUR:AdWare.Script.Pusher.gen“
Did some amateur google-fu and apparently it’s some kind of ad thing that hits Google ad service things?
Got two more overnight- this one about 11 last night (near Kalamazoo, MI), on iPad, running the latest iOS:
Not sure if hemp oil is one of the things the forum wants to be pushing, but... better safe than sorry.
...and this one, about two hours later, which is behind a spoiler because of NSFW:
This is the second one for this particular product I've seen; I wasn't fast enough with the screengrab to get the first one. It's an adult game made to interact with an adult toy aimed at guys, the toy is hidden behind the black because better safe than sorry. I know this one's against the rules.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
Now that it's been 2 weeks or so since the ads went live, would it be possible to make the announcement dismissable?
I mostly run login containers so PA's ad profile from which they draw from should be rather restricted to content from PA (also I don't use any of this shit).
Knowing google adsense it is probably scraping data from text on the pages and the average PAer in general's browsing habits. So some of our threads are probably triggering the less than desirable ads.
Most of the ones I get are for shit like humble bundle but every now and then one of these fuckers squeaks in. There was a vacuum one today because of the vacuum thread in H/A I probably browsed. I've gotten a few NRA/Political ones, and a few NSFW ones.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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BhowSunny day, sweeping the clouds away.On my way to where the air is sweet.Registered Userregular
I'm getting lots of nsfw-ish bikini girls/topless lying prone type, like those linked/screencapped above.
I don't see ads because I'm a patreon supporter, but the blue space at the top keeps changing size vertically (not like every second or anything, but just every so often)
I don't notice it on my phone, but on my pc it's obvious (current firefox if it matters)
[img]httpx://us.v-cdn.net/5018289/uploads/editor/gs/lxvszlxu0zhh.png[/img]
(Picture includes skimpy bathing suit; I redacted it cause I don't want to look up the actual rules around this stuff.)
Seen ~9:44am PST, Bellevue WA, Firefox.
I just got this one as well. About 1:56 PM EDT, Central Indiana, Chrome latest stable beta.
I was catching up on the conspiracy thread, watching a video in an embedded twitter post, and this happened about halfway through the video.
MacOS 10.15.6
Chrome browser.
+1
BrodyThe WatchThe First ShoreRegistered Userregular
[img]httpx://us.v-cdn.net/5018289/uploads/editor/gs/lxvszlxu0zhh.png[/img]
(Picture includes skimpy bathing suit; I redacted it cause I don't want to look up the actual rules around this stuff.)
Seen ~9:44am PST, Bellevue WA, Firefox.
I just got this one as well. About 1:56 PM EDT, Central Indiana, Chrome latest stable beta.
I know you said you were looking into these, but I wasn't sure if you still wanted data on them.
Edge, 4:15 PM, VPN to Iowa.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Uh, yeah, so, pretty sure we shouldn't be getting porn. Especially porn about teenagers running sex hotels with their teachers.
Or maybe it's just super weird creepy DEFINITELY a thing you'd be banned for trying to make a thread about.
E:
There's apparently a bunch, and even if they're not outright porn (and not clicking on that shit to find out), it's all stuff like "Let's Make Love at a Love Hotel," "Tonight We Exchange Husbands," "The Unobtainable Saki-san's Guide to Self-Pleasure" etc
hmm.. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but it looks like all my PA tabs in an up-to-date firefox on an up-to-date Windows 10 just crashed, and somehow took the whole browser with them. might have been something on my side though
I dunno what other people think, but these ads feel kinda human-trafficky to me. I've seen a couple of them today.
Still Firefox/PC/Nova Scotia.
The alternative is still pretty scammy.
...and when you are done with that; take a folding
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
edited April 2021
I kind of doubt PA wants to be affiliated with white nationalists
Edit: It ended up being way too big because there is still no good way to shrink the file size of IOS photos, but this was an ad for Fox Nation with Tucker Carlson front and center
IPad Safari latest version, Spokane
knitdan on
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
+5
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Nope. Never been able to figure out that stuff on my iPad.
Been also getting ads in the MMO section for paid boosting services in WoW- last I researched, that kind of thing broke Blizzard's ToS something fierce...
I can has cheezburger, yes?
+1
knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
I don’t ever browse the forums incognito but my physical location is not always what websites seem to think it is.
Twitter’s ad software always seems to think I’m in Maryland instead of Washington State.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
+1
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I was unaware that the iPad had an incognito mode
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Also, just got an ad with a woman who was essentially topless for “newzgeek”
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
On my android phone when I visit I don't get the ads but on my computer I do
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
edited April 2021
And now one selling Trump and Don’t Tread on Me coins, “money metals exchange”
Munkus Beaver on
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I don't see ads because I'm a patreon supporter, but the blue space at the top keeps changing size vertically (not like every second or anything, but just every so often)
I don't notice it on my phone, but on my pc it's obvious (current firefox if it matters)
I'm having the same issue. When I'm logged into Patreon / ClubPA, it incorrectly loads the *space* for an ad and then correctly never serves it to me. It looks hella janky. Strangely, when I have uBlock or Privacy Badger on, the layout is flush against the top of the page.
Posts
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Not sure if a ruling has been made here, but these are still happening:
https://imgur.com/bsQwLkc , https://imgur.com/53uC0uq
Firefox on Windows PC, connected to a VPN located in Sunnyvale, CA.
D3: HexDex#1281, PSN: DireOtter, Live: DireOtter
Did some amateur google-fu and apparently it’s some kind of ad thing that hits Google ad service things?
I can has cheezburger, yes?
Firefox, Windows PC, Nova Scotia.
(Picture includes skimpy bathing suit; I redacted it cause I don't want to look up the actual rules around this stuff.)
Seen ~9:44am PST, Bellevue WA, Firefox.
Just got this one as well. 8:38pm North Carolina.
Not exactly great for a safe for work/sub-18 forum.
I don't know who or what Google thinks I am, but I'm shook
Not sure if hemp oil is one of the things the forum wants to be pushing, but... better safe than sorry.
...and this one, about two hours later, which is behind a spoiler because of NSFW:
This is the second one for this particular product I've seen; I wasn't fast enough with the screengrab to get the first one. It's an adult game made to interact with an adult toy aimed at guys, the toy is hidden behind the black because better safe than sorry. I know this one's against the rules.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
I mostly run login containers so PA's ad profile from which they draw from should be rather restricted to content from PA (also I don't use any of this shit).
Knowing google adsense it is probably scraping data from text on the pages and the average PAer in general's browsing habits. So some of our threads are probably triggering the less than desirable ads.
Most of the ones I get are for shit like humble bundle but every now and then one of these fuckers squeaks in. There was a vacuum one today because of the vacuum thread in H/A I probably browsed. I've gotten a few NRA/Political ones, and a few NSFW ones.
PC, Chrome, West Michigan
I don't notice it on my phone, but on my pc it's obvious (current firefox if it matters)
I just got this one as well. About 1:56 PM EDT, Central Indiana, Chrome latest stable beta.
MacOS 10.15.6
Chrome browser.
I know you said you were looking into these, but I wasn't sure if you still wanted data on them.
Edge, 4:15 PM, VPN to Iowa.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
Same, iPad safari Alabama
Or maybe it's just super weird creepy DEFINITELY a thing you'd be banned for trying to make a thread about.
E:
There's apparently a bunch, and even if they're not outright porn (and not clicking on that shit to find out), it's all stuff like "Let's Make Love at a Love Hotel," "Tonight We Exchange Husbands," "The Unobtainable Saki-san's Guide to Self-Pleasure" etc
Still Firefox/PC/Nova Scotia.
The alternative is still pretty scammy.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Edit: It ended up being way too big because there is still no good way to shrink the file size of IOS photos, but this was an ad for Fox Nation with Tucker Carlson front and center
IPad Safari latest version, Spokane
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Saw one like that just now, for ‘single Russian ladies’ on iPad in Alabama
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Been also getting ads in the MMO section for paid boosting services in WoW- last I researched, that kind of thing broke Blizzard's ToS something fierce...
I can has cheezburger, yes?
Twitter’s ad software always seems to think I’m in Maryland instead of Washington State.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I'm having the same issue. When I'm logged into Patreon / ClubPA, it incorrectly loads the *space* for an ad and then correctly never serves it to me. It looks hella janky. Strangely, when I have uBlock or Privacy Badger on, the layout is flush against the top of the page.
Win 10, Firefox 87.0, DC, USA
Also got one of the WoW boosting sites
Located in PA.
EDIT: Boosting site is “Wowvendor”
Yep.