weird TR ads

[Inkling]

Political ads are pretty rare, are difficult to completely block, and come from both ideological sides through ad networks. So take comfort that the other side's probably just as offended as you are. I've seen'em from Newsmax, Huffpo, Cato Institute, and Moveon, among others.

The SpringCM banner, however, is indeed misbehaving. That one is geo-targeted to a short list of major metropolitan areas, so I hadn't seen it myself. I've disabled it until the ad agency can get it fixed.

As always, thanks for the heads-up.

- Adam

[derFunkenstein]

I had to think long and hard about that because the nearest metropolitan area is roughly 3 hours away (Chicago or St. Louis). But then I remembered that I'm on a VPN that routes me through the DFW area.

[superjawes]

Chicagoland here. No wonder it was popping up.

But seriously, /highfive for taking care of this stuff! It's really nice to have ads blocked by the site when they are, as you put it, misbehaving.

On the topic of political ads, I really don't care. Any political statement or click-baiting that fits into an ad banner is pretty shallow and not really though provoking. Case in point, "Obama meltdown coming" and "Gun control?" I prefer my politics to have more depth than that.... [/soapbox]

[just brew it!]

Yeah, I've noticed geographical targeting too. Not just on this site, on other sites too. I got the above mentioned misbehaving ad earlier this morning at home (Chicago area). When on the web at work (via a NJ-based proxy) I sometimes see ads that are obviously aimed at people out east.

[mortifiedPenguin]

The SpringCM banner, however, is indeed misbehaving. That one is geo-targeted to a short list of major metropolitan areas, so I hadn't seen it myself. I've disabled it until the ad agency can get it fixed.

I just got the misbehaving SpringCM banner. I don't think I've seen it until this morning, though.

edit: if it helps, I'm currently in Orange County (Southern California)

[Arvald]

I think I may have found the cause of the dating ads coming up for people...
Have you visited Pirate Bay?
The ads there are almost 100% dating and that data may have been used to serve you more dating ads here.

[derFunkenstein]

It's back:

link

If they told you it was fixed, they lied.

[Flying Fox]

It's back:

link

If they told you it was fixed, they lied.

+1, in WA
Was able to move the mouse cursor to avoid it though.

[mortifiedPenguin]

If they told you it was fixed, they lied.

If the fix was supposed to be that it doesn't auto-open without mouse-over it seems to work. The one on THIS PAGE (probably because we mentioned the product name a few times) only opens up if I deliberately mouse over it.

[derFunkenstein]

If they told you it was fixed, they lied.

If the fix was supposed to be that it doesn't auto-open without mouse-over it seems to work. The one on THIS PAGE (probably because we mentioned the product name a few times) only opens up if I deliberately mouse over it.

That was always the case for me, and it says "ROLLOVER TO OPEN" so I guess it's not so bad. It no longer covers the TR logo so I can leave the page I'm on now.

[Pagey]

Speaking of weird ads being injected, Ars has this article up: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013 ... for-hs-ok/

[steelcity_ballin]

Speaking of weird ads being injected, Ars has this article up: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013 ... for-hs-ok/

I came here to post just this. Really scummy of that ISP and really scary for the potential abuse when you take what they did to extremes. Is HTTPS really the only way around it?

[Captain Ned]

Speaking of weird ads being injected, Ars has this article up: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013 ... for-hs-ok/

I came here to post just this. Really scummy of that ISP and really scary for the potential abuse when you take what they did to extremes. Is HTTPS really the only way around it?

Redirect r66t.com or any other offending address to 127.0.0.1 in your HOSTS file or block it at the router level.

[Pagey]

Speaking of weird ads being injected, Ars has this article up: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013 ... for-hs-ok/

I came here to post just this. Really scummy of that ISP and really scary for the potential abuse when you take what they did to extremes. Is HTTPS really the only way around it?

Redirect r66t.com or any other offending address to 127.0.0.1 in your HOSTS file or block it at the router level.

Good call, Cap'n.

[Khali]

I use Do Not Track me on my browsers so I don't get any of the tailored ads. I use it not so much because of the privacy issue but more along the lines of why should Google and others make money off my info and not me as well. They want to track the websites I visit then cough up some cash, until then they get no info from me.

[cubical10]

Speaking of weird ads being injected, Ars has this article up: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013 ... for-hs-ok/

I came here to post just this. Really scummy of that ISP and really scary for the potential abuse when you take what they did to extremes. Is HTTPS really the only way around it?

Redirect r66t.com or any other offending address to 127.0.0.1 in your HOSTS file or block it at the router level.

This works to protect your home network.

The only way for TR to protect itself is to purchase a SSL certificate and redirect 80 to 443.
Which is a nightmare for 3rd party content, like ads.