Pop-up Ads

[la dentelle]

As many of you may or may not know, over the past few days there have been an unprecedented number of pop-up ads on gaia.
Actually, they're the first I've ever seen. And at least one is for a quiz about gaia promising 1.5 million gold.
I don't entirely know if this would be our jurisdiction, but I figured I would mention it.
In order to find out other people's experiences, I'm going to make an announcement.
If anyone else could share any experiences or information, I would greatly appreciate it.  

[imtammy]

I only get those annoying talking ads.  

[-EccentricElegance-]

imtammy

I only get those annoying talking ads.

yes i find them soooo irrtating if you refresh the page to see if you have a pm and one is there and your liek ahhh and i have to refsh it again there annoying and stupid  

[il Kaori li]

I received on that looked exactly like a gaia page when I logged in.

Really?  

[xena91388]

Have you tried using a pop-up blocker? I haven't had any pop-ups on Gaian yet. The only annoying ads I have experienced are the ones in the dressing rooms that cover my item poses list but all I have to do is move the list.  

[Dragon Of The Rose]

xena91388

Have you tried using a pop-up blocker? I haven't had any pop-ups on Gaian yet. The only annoying ads I have experienced are the ones in the dressing rooms that cover my item poses list but all I have to do is move the list.

Same with myself.
I've taken to using adblockplus. (Though seeing as for many sites that's their sole revenue, I should disable it and only enable it when I need the extra bandwidth...)
Anyway, are scam pop-ups in their control? How to pop-ups come to be on a site in the first place? o__o  

[la dentelle]

Dragon Of The Rose

xena91388

Have you tried using a pop-up blocker? I haven't had any pop-ups on Gaian yet. The only annoying ads I have experienced are the ones in the dressing rooms that cover my item poses list but all I have to do is move the list.

Same with myself.
I've taken to using adblockplus. (Though seeing as for many sites that's their sole revenue, I should disable it and only enable it when I need the extra bandwidth...)
Anyway, are scam pop-ups in their control? How to pop-ups come to be on a site in the first place? o__o

Hence my posting in the first place.
Also, I would prefer it if you would not just say that they're 'sooo annoying'; I understand your frustration, but it's not constructive.

As to the adblock- that's a fair point.  

[Dragon Of The Rose]

la dentelle

Dragon Of The Rose

xena91388

Have you tried using a pop-up blocker? I haven't had any pop-ups on Gaian yet. The only annoying ads I have experienced are the ones in the dressing rooms that cover my item poses list but all I have to do is move the list.

Same with myself.
I've taken to using adblockplus. (Though seeing as for many sites that's their sole revenue, I should disable it and only enable it when I need the extra bandwidth...)
Anyway, are scam pop-ups in their control? How to pop-ups come to be on a site in the first place? o__o

Hence my posting in the first place.
Also, I would prefer it if you would not just say that they're 'sooo annoying'; I understand your frustration, but it's not constructive.

As to the adblock- that's a fair point.

I gather that they are javascript on the page. The javascript might be contained in a banner ad...it might be completely unintentional by Gaia, but the issue should be brought up with them so that if there is some source they can stop listing...
I really don't know how any of it works. xd
Good luck?  

[Sandawich]

I've encountered them before  

[KairiWillSwantonYou]

I haven't had any popups, but Adblock Plus with the element hiding helper for Firefox does wonders for getting rid of the ads.  

[Vocality]

I got a pop-up, took the quiz, but I don't remember it saying anything about gold. Anyways, I wasn't hacked. I guess that means everything's fine with it.
Or, we're talking about two different pop-ups.  

[Psyri]

I've had none at all. I do have a decent firewall and adblockers on firefox handy tho

 

[Anne Packrat]

Please report them here.

Please make sure to read the directions to find out which information is required when reporting an inappropriate ad.  

[Jaydenn Kelvari]

I've seen similar in threads and such. What it usually ends up being in those cases, though, is that someone has a hack site set up that they're running through tinyurl.com. Whenever their post gets loaded, Gaia loads the tinyurl hack site, since it's in IMG tags, and voila - scam pop-up.  

[Toxicated Cuppycakes]

"STFU I'm talking!"


The only time I've gotten an alarming ad here on Gaia was one of the banner ads in Chatterbox that set off flags with my anti-virus.

If you don't use Firefox, make the switch and get the plugin Adblock Plus.


It's what I use, and it works very well. : D
"Okay, I'm done."