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[KainD]

I've just logged back onto forums after about a 10 hour brake and suddenly was attacked by multiple ads that pop up from clicking topics, or general random clicks. I don't remember it being like this yesterday. Anyone else has this? Is it going to be like this now? 

[Knight of Dane]

Adblock FTW!

[Palidane]

Adblock FTW!

Depriving content creators of their only source of revenue so you can save five seconds of time FTW!

[KainD]

Depriving content creators of their only source of revenue so you can save five seconds of time FTW!

 

This is forums though, damn. 1-2 times when you log in after a period of a few hours would be ok ( I know some solid sites that have it ), but this is just a massive ongoing attack, kinda frustrating. 

[N0rke]

I'd consider scanning your computer for viruses. I haven't once been attacked by a pop-up ad using this site and I don't run adblock.

[I SOLD MY SOUL TO BIOWARE]

I think you downloaded something you shouldn't have.

[Palidane]

I haven't seen any ads on this forum. I'm morally opposed to adblock in general, not in this specific instance.

[devSin]

You probably have some sort of browser extension installed that is misbehaving.

 

As far as I'm aware, there are no ads on the BioWare site; definitely no pop-up ads.

[KainD]

Yeah this is why I asked if others have it the same. I might want to search for problems in my own system, if others don't get ads. 

Strangely enough though - it is this site only. 

[The Spirit of Dance]

Depriving content creators of their only source of revenue so you can save five seconds of time FTW!

There's a middle ground, turn off your adblock every few times you visit.

[sandalisthemaker]

It would seem that you have been infested with worms OP.

[Knight of Dane]

Depriving content creators of their only source of revenue so you can save five seconds of time FTW!

Totally!

[Fast Jimmy]

There's a middle ground, turn off your adblock every few times you visit.

 

The middle ground is the market reacting properly. If users of your site feel inconvenienced by your ads, then your ads aren't speaking to them as consumers and are likely taking up too much time. 

 

Expecting internet users to actively try and turn off and on their ad blockers just to be judicious is not a strategy anyone should look to as being anywhere near wise or self-sustaining. Better ads and shorter time frames targeted towards what your audience wants. That's what people should be doing - not just trusting Google ads to automatically make you money pushing garbage, overly long commercials.

[Xilizhra]

I haven't seen any ads on this forum. I'm morally opposed to adblock in general, not in this specific instance.

Why are you morally opposed to it?

[Thomas Andresen]

Why are you morally opposed to it?

I can probably answer that.

When a site is using ads, it is, most of the time, to generate much needed revenue, in order to cover the costs involved in maintaining the site, with servers and administrators, which are all very real and noticeable costs if you're not a multi-million dollar corporation. Most ads generate revenue for the site hosting the ads based on the number of views the ad itself have received, and so by blocking those ad, you deprive the host, who's very services you are using, revenue that they require in order to maintain those services.

That said. As have been stated previously, BioWare's forums doesn't use ads. Not even before joining up with EA. So if you get ad spam, that's something on your end. I'd check your computer for malware.

[hexaligned]

Adblock FTW!

Never leave home without it.

 

Depriving content creators of their only source of revenue so you can save five seconds of time FTW!

 

I see more value in being selective about who gets revenue, way too many inflammatory hacks parasitising other peoples talent and trying to strike it rich on youtube gold these days. 

 

That being said there are one or two people I think actually do good work, and that I do not block.  TB and... maybe that's it actually.  At least in the gaming community.

[Allan Schumacher]

I think you downloaded something you shouldn't have.

 

I'd be inclined to think this; some sort of software is probably hijacking your your links.  I have been reasonably active with the forums since they came online and don't use any sort of ad blocking software and haven't seen a single ad pop up.

[Grieving Natashina]

Also, since it sounds like you're infected Kain, make sure you run two different virus scan programs.  Sometimes, one program will pick up the virus and the other could miss it.  For example: I ended up with a Trojan about a year ago.  AVG didn't find it, but AdAware did.  It was buried in an old file on my D: drive.

 

I hope everyone goes well for you!

[Allan Schumacher]

Moved to the help forum.