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Old 04-23-18 | 01:13 PM
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We were good for a while there, weren't we? I'll report these
Old 04-23-18 | 07:16 PM
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We were good for a while there, weren't we? I'll report these
Yes it was good for a while but then the redirects began to creep back..
Old 04-25-18 | 02:27 PM
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Old 04-29-18 | 01:09 PM
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Old 05-07-18 | 02:50 AM
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Found this ad to be odd....

Old 05-07-18 | 02:51 AM
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Than while coming here to post the odd one... Bam... Another popup blocked. This URL is not one I remember...


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Several ads today appear to be running cryptocurrency miners or something that caused my CPU cores to spike really huge.
Old 05-08-18 | 05:13 PM
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Old 05-11-18 | 06:18 PM
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Not to jinx myself, but I haven't had any of these redirects on my phone in quite awhile now.

(iPhone w/ Chrome)
Old 05-14-18 | 11:12 PM
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Several ads today appear to be running cryptocurrency miners or something that caused my CPU cores to spike really huge.
Happened again today until the Chrome tab ran out of memory and crashed.
Old 05-15-18 | 12:54 PM
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Later yesterday, we put a 3rd party blocker on all sites in our division and it should stop redirect completely. As for high-memory regular ads, we are currently working on those.
Old 05-19-18 | 12:42 AM
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Originally Posted by TheBang
Several ads today appear to be running cryptocurrency miners or something that caused my CPU cores to spike really huge.
Again, on 4 different tabs today. It was causing CPU usage to max out about 6 cores. And each tab was using over 3GB of RAM before they crashed.

I was able to use Chrome Task Manager to identify one of the offending tabs (the other 3 had crashed already). I took a screenshot. As you can see, the ads didn't even load properly in the tab. They're just sucking down CPU and RAM.

Old 05-19-18 | 05:28 AM
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I'm now experiencing videos that won't allow me to scroll past them. I scroll down and it snaps back up to them. Chrome on Android.
Old 05-21-18 | 09:07 AM
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Re: Ads redirecting on mobile

The thread title only refers to mobile options, but for the last few days the site has been redirecting my browser to one of those "you have a virus" pages that have audio and will not let you close them.
Old 05-21-18 | 09:23 AM
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Thanks guys, I'll report all these ads to our team. The cryptocurrency ones are particularly disturbing. Bang, thanks for the screenshot. b2net and mickey, can you post some of what you're seeing? b2net, I know it's hard to showthat you can't scroll past something, since that requires video, but maybe if it's disturbing text/content? Are you both browsing in the US/through US IPs?
Old 05-21-18 | 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by IBJoel
Thanks guys, I'll report all these ads to our team. The cryptocurrency ones are particularly disturbing. Bang, thanks for the screenshot. b2net and mickey, can you post some of what you're seeing? b2net, I know it's hard to showthat you can't scroll past something, since that requires video, but maybe if it's disturbing text/content? Are you both browsing in the US/through US IPs?
So far I haven't noticed if it is disturbing content as I don't watch it as I am trying to scroll past it. Browsing in the US using either Verizon's network or on my employer's local WiFi (when there is too much congestion on Verizon's network). I am 98%+ on Verizon's network.
Old 05-24-18 | 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBang
Several ads today appear to be running cryptocurrency miners or something that caused my CPU cores to spike really huge.
Old 05-25-18 | 04:03 AM
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I was ads-redirected several times last year November. I took some time out hoping this annoying issue got fixed. So far so good.
Old 08-28-18 | 02:21 PM
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It has been good for so long.... But this today...


Old 08-29-18 | 11:52 AM
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Gah! It was a good three months. I've spoken to our ads manager, and while we can't stop these completely, it shouldn't be a recurring problem, as it was.
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Originally Posted by IBJoel
Gah! It was a good three months. I've spoken to our ads manager, and while we can't stop these completely, it shouldn't be a recurring problem, as it was.
It has only happened to me twice in 3 months. When it happened this second time, I figured I'd post just in case there is a way these are sneaking in again.
Old 09-13-18 | 12:06 PM
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Re: Ads redirecting on mobile

It’s happening to me a lot today.
Old 09-14-18 | 10:47 AM
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It’s happening to me a lot today.
Could you post a screenshot? About how often would you say you're getting them?
Old 11-13-18 | 08:47 PM
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Re: Ads redirecting on mobile

Getting this crap regularly today. Super annoying. Even clicking Cancel redirects to the shitty website.
Is it because I made fun of the anti-Handbrake ad?

Old 11-14-18 | 09:31 AM
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Getting this crap regularly today. Super annoying. Even clicking Cancel redirects to the shitty website.
Is it because I made fun of the anti-Handbrake ad?

Hi Dan, definitely shouldn't be happening since we installed some 3rd-party redirect-blocking software, but unfortunately some can slip through. I will alert tech/ads.


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