Advertising - Reporting bad ads

[Fraza]

MMO Champion is part of the Curse network now I understand. I already have Curse Premium, so receiving ads about joining Curse Premium for an "ad-free experience" is rather ironic, not to mention misleading and wrong.



Clicking on the ad:



It even says "Curse.com and our major network sites are already ad free with your membership."

[wing5wong]

autoplaying sound/animation.. doesnt seem to have just one ad, but multiple.
eventually results in flash plugin crashing


same ad again today.
multiple ads in one. categories: airwick strepsils dettol daily-spots.com

embed: http://s0.2mdn.net/3691115/1-300x250_car.swf

object: http://d1cyvnjc1olxmw.cloudfront.net.../jw-5.7-sp.swf


and again today.
these ads re enable sound every time the ad changes ( no page refresh, the ad just changes once one plays through)

[FusedMass]

When I clicked to enter "MMO Champion" without clicking on anything. A massive AD makes it's way across the screen. This is what I suspect someone else complained about. It's not just a little big. It blocks all of the screen AND you do not click anything to make it appear mega big.

That's where it links me to

http://borderlands2.com/buy/

---------- Post added 2012-09-19 at 01:11 PM ----------

Also this message popped up when I was writing a PM. Out of nowhere the audio started playing and the video.

It didn't leave a url.

[Dakia]

Also this message popped up when I was writing a PM. Out of nowhere the audio started playing and the video.

It didn't leave a url.

In my experience, these ads only trigger when you mouse over the banner. If the cursor is left over the banner for a set pperiod of time, I think something 3 seconds, it will trigger the video. If you start hearing the sound, simply move the cursor and it will stop the triggering of the video. It threw me for a loop at first as well.

[Sigma]

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...5#post19131915

Date - 17.11.2012
Time - 10:30 GMT
Getting a Malicious link warning from avast

[Treeston]

Was caused by an embedded image in a signature. I've removed the image in question.

[Mugajak]

The last time I opened http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...Garalon-Tanks?

I was greeted by a forwarding pop-up to http://www.lordofultima.com/en/welco...ign=lou_iqu-us -- I missed the pop-up URL because I closed the window before thinking about reporting it, but I snagged that when I deleted relevant cookies. Ad for some flash MMO...thing.

[Letmesleep]

The last time I opened http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...Garalon-Tanks?

I was greeted by a forwarding pop-up to http://www.lordofultima.com/en/welco...ign=lou_iqu-us -- I missed the pop-up URL because I closed the window before thinking about reporting it, but I snagged that when I deleted relevant cookies. Ad for some flash MMO...thing.

I believe I was just greeted with the same add. I was browsing the General OT list of threads and suddenly had another page opened to the "world's best free game" or something like that. I closed it pretty fast since it was loading something.

[Arcilux]

Just had a floating ad, I was in the process of logging in (had entered my username and hit tab to enter my password) and the ad came up. Links to:

http://www.usa.philips.com/c/energy-...47_262142987_0

[Sunshine]

Looks like a popover from one of the rollover banner ads -- did you happen to leave your mouse there while you were typing?

[Arlee]

Looks like a popover from one of the rollover banner ads -- did you happen to leave your mouse there while you were typing?

I meant to say something the other day but forgot >< there are a few of the rollover ads where even if you quickly move your mouse across that part of the screen they keep counting down and pop-up anyway. The one he posted there is one of the ones I have had that happen on.

[Arcilux]

Looks like a popover from one of the rollover banner ads -- did you happen to leave your mouse there while you were typing?

Definitely possible, I did not see any banner ads, but then again I was not paying particular attention to the screen, was just on autopilot going to login.

[Totori]

http://db.tt/U2EB0IpN

Not sure what the hell it is.
On my cellphone Droid Razr Maxx which prompted to crash my browser afterwards.
Firefox 17.0

[Vanyali]

Bic 40th celebration Lighter add (sorry, don't have a ss)

Plays noise, then goes into an obnoxiously big pop-up.

[Vanyali]

Adds are not being my friend

[Sunshine]

That looks like a rollover ad - they will usually pop over if you hold your mouse over the ad for a few seconds.

[Shamanic]

I had an adult dating ad today, I think they're meant to be blocked, the image is http://cdn1.clkads.com/ext/ibario/53...eral728X90.jpg and clicks through to http://www.chinawomendating.asia/?af...71811980318048

[DeltrusDisc]

Bottom right ad was an auto-play of sound ad that was for some light and fat Greek yogurt or whatever. I clicked the little blue arrow in the ad and it went to: https://preferences-mgr.truste.com/?...50&w=300&h=250

After the ad finished, I went back in time to 2001! No refresh or anything for this.

[Dewote]

Not sure if I should post this here, but Google Chrome started to block access to http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...Simulator-2013.
At least for me, anyone else?

[noteworthynerd]

Not sure if I should post this here, but Google Chrome started to block access to http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...Simulator-2013.
At least for me, anyone else?

CanardPC links are currently being reported as Malware, that's the site where CPU-Z Validator sigs are hosted. So any page where someone with one of those sigs has posted is gonna trigger the Google Chrome Malware warning.