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05-02-2009, 04:12 PM
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Okay, I have two questions:
First of all, does anyone else have problems with type of ads that makes some random words underlined, and if you hover your mouse over the word you get popup advert? See the pic attached for better details. Haven't noticed this anywhere else, and it gets annoying if lots of words gets linked this way. Also, at least twice the advert link has replaced the original link, thus making it impossible to use the link without refreshing.
Second question:
I don't mind that much what the ads actually advertise if the format is not offensive, but as the GB is known to be a site for every age, is it acceptable that most of the times the ads are about Viagra or such medicines? Just wondering, that's all. Basically, there ain't hardly any other ads anymore.
So... am I the only one suffering from these problems? Or has anyone else experienced these?
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05-02-2009, 04:21 PM
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That's interesting. I don't get the word ads at all, and I haven't really noticed the Viagra ads. I always seem to get the "rules for a flat stomach" ads.
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05-02-2009, 11:31 PM
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Don't think I encountered any of those ads so far. Maybe the clicksor ad some time ago, but I've yet to bump into the Viagra ones.
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05-03-2009, 02:22 AM
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Haven't seen those "word -> advert" myself, but if it something in rotation, it should be removed fast.
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05-30-2009, 09:36 PM
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Word advertisements aren't showing up on my computer. I think you might have some adware on your computer or browser.
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05-30-2009, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by LitShadowolf  Word advertisements aren't showing up on my computer. I think you might have some adware on your computer or browser. | Probably in browser, though I wonder why it triggers only here in GB... 
On the other hand, the viagra ads have vanished almost totally (I may see one at times, but that's very rarely now) when at one period I didn't get anything but those.
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05-30-2009, 10:20 PM
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Kipi, I suggest installing Ad-Aware to see if you've got any adware on your system. It's a great product that I've used for several years, and it's free.
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05-30-2009, 10:30 PM
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If you determine that the word advertisements are GB-specific, please let me know. I've never given my consent to these types of ads, so they shouldn't be showing up regardless of your region. If they are, I'll make sure they get removed.
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05-30-2009, 11:24 PM
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Okay, did some googling, and found some interesting things about Clicksor.
First of all, it's popup type of ad, and the site owner must enable popups for this ad system to work. Also, as I gathered, the site owner must allow Clicksor before it will work. Now, I don't know well enough if all the advertising code for this site is coming from UGO or not, but if I understand correctly that if those do, and UGO has Clicksor account, then GB should also "suffer" from it in normal situation. Problems with Clicksor | The Webmaster Forums
And here is how it works: Clicksor Contextual Advertising Technology
I also gathered that if you disable popups, then you shouldn't get clicksor ads. So perhaps that's one reason hardly any of you have ever seen those?
I'm not that keen on disabling popups just because of GB, as usually I have one page of GB open all the time my browser is open, but I still want to get those legit popups which I wanted. That would also explain why I don't get those ads when using IE while browsing GB, as I ahve turned popups off from IE.
I'll try Ad-Aware now, but I found references from difference sites that as it's not spyware or adware, Ad-Aware probably won't find anything strange...
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05-31-2009, 02:59 AM
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I've still not experienced this myself, so if it is UGO specific, it is regional specific. And the words game/games get typed alot, so many people would notice if it was on GB I think
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05-31-2009, 06:38 AM
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Things a running smoothly for me at the moment. I've noticed that the banner ad at the top of the page is now displaying UGO's own banner aa lot at the moment, so I suspect they've had to replace at least one problematic one for this region. I haven't seen the 'Advertisement Loading' message all day so far today.
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05-31-2009, 09:10 AM
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I've made UGO aware of the ads, Kipi. Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this tomorrow when the appropriate people return to work.
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06-01-2009, 03:13 PM
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Kipi,
UGO has assured me that they have absolutely no relationship with Clicksor in any region, so these text-based rollover ads are most likely a result of some sort of adware on your computer.
Can you investigate this a bit more and shoot me an email or PM with the results? If nothing else, we can probably contact Clicksor directly to get to the bottom of it.
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06-01-2009, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Kipi I'll try Ad-Aware now, but I found references from difference sites that as it's not spyware or adware, Ad-Aware probably won't find anything strange... | That's true, but did Ad-Aware bring up anything on a full scan? If it's something else, I suggest Kaspersky Internet Security. As anti-virus stuff goes it's a bit nervy, but you can configure it to ignore what it perceives as vulnerabilities. And it's extremely good at sniffing out and killing trojans, etc.
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06-01-2009, 04:08 PM
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I use Kaspersky's security suite and it is *excellent*
Since adopting it a couple of years ago I have not had any kind of malware infections at all.
You might also want to try Spyware Blaster.
Rather than being a removal tool it keeps junk form getting on your computer in the first place.
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