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Inkling wrote: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.
derFunkenstein wrote:
derFunkenstein wrote: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.If they told you it was fixed, they lied.
mortifiedPenguin wrote:derFunkenstein wrote: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.If they told you it was fixed, they lied.
Pagey wrote:Speaking of weird ads being injected, Ars has this article up: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013 ... for-hs-ok/
steelcity_ballin wrote:Pagey wrote: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 wrote:steelcity_ballin wrote:Pagey wrote: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.
Captain Ned wrote:steelcity_ballin wrote:Pagey wrote: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.
drfish wrote:So hey, not to embarrass myself if others haven't noticed the same thing but wow there are a few ads on TR the past few days that are uncharacteristically tasteless. I know my browsing habits haven't changed and most of what I see are still PC hardware related or at least from Amazon or another online vendor - but there are some, errr, exceptions I can't explain...
drfish wrote:I'll get screen shots next time I see one. Was mostly curious to see if anyone else had seen any funny ones slip though...