anyone else getting bumped to an ad page?

[mitsuman]

Quite a bit this past week or so, when I come to the site, I get bumped to an ad page. I took some screenshots (below).
Anyone else getting this?

[cjameslv]

No but i do run adblocker plus, might get the plugin for your browser

[ClodBuster]

Are you talking of the mainsite?
I tried to replicate this in Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer, but no ads appeared.

[Necromancer]

No problems here.  I normally run adblock plus, but it's disabled here so I can click on a couple ads daily to help Aaron keep the lights on.

If you're being redirected by one of google's ads, the problem is probably on google's end or you've got a malware problem.

[NightWolve]

I used to use the etc/hosts file of Windows to change the IP addresses of ad sites used here to block all ads and get faster page loads, but then like Necro I thought I should be helping Aaron with revenue generating, so I removed that, and I occasionally even click on the ads. But no, never had the problem, and maybe you got some extension/plugin or something acting up.

[Necromancer]

Googlerins fro comptinters leads me to believe that it's likely an ad sense problem that they know about and are working to fix.

[mitsuman]

It is happening on my iMac at work running safari and just happened on my iPad running Safari.

It happens at random times. When I click on a sub forum, it happens. When I click on a topic, it happens. When I go to reply, it happens. I can hit the back button and come back to the forum, but it is a nuisance.

I'll just check my settings on safari tonight and see what I can do.

Thanks for the info everyone.

[mitsuman]

It is going to lemode-MHz. I looked it up and it seems to be Google ad issue. It is happeneing with other forums as well.

[NightWolve]

Hm, guess it is the ads. As many of them are Adobe Flash, they can do MANY things besides a simple redirect to another page.

Besides the easier ad block plugin option, you could go after the ad domains and neutralize 'em via a hosts file. Here's how a line in my hosts file appeared:

23.193.234.144 pagead2.googlesyndication.com www.google-analytics.com

What happens is, those domains are forced to resolve to another IP address, I used Microsoft's. So any website you go to that uses them, gets nothing from whatever JavaScript ad-serving code is linked. A not found message in principle, so yeah, it has the effect of neutralizing it all with no need for plugins in your browser.

I had to keep this for Photobucket cause they pack a punch with all the ad serving and the page loading is God awfully slow just to upload an image, wasting 5 minutes to finally get to do it. You can use Google's Search IP address here as it's less likely to change as often. The entry in the file looks like this:

#Photobucket Block
216.58.216.196 b.photobucket.com rtax.criteo.com view.atdmt.com b.scorecardresearch.com
216.58.216.196 www35.glam.com loadus.exelator.com secure-us.imrworldwide.com

Browsers all have to be restarted, but a reboot is not necessary for changes to take effect. I dunno where this etc/hosts file or something similar would be on a Mac machine though. You'd have to look that up. One other drawback is if Google or MS change those IPs and they go bad, page loads will be slow waiting around for a server response. You have to remember you did this and do a "ping www.google.com" command to get the latest IP address and update the file on occasion.

[Necromancer]

I got this lemode bullshit a couple times (so far) this morning.

C'mon, google, fix your damn ads.

[cjameslv]

... cough..

[Necromancer]

Like I posted above, I prefer to keep the ads working here to help Aaron pay the bills.  Normally the ads are unobtrusive, and it's not that hard to click a couple a day.

[mitsuman]

Like I posted above, I prefer to keep the ads working here to help Aaron pay the bills.  Normally the ads are unobtrusive, and it's not that hard to click a couple a day.

It stopped a day or two after I posted this. Not sure what happened, but it is gone now.