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Ad Hijack

Postby Keab42 » 13 Jul 2012, 10:29

In Chrome, trying to view the Videos Archive, as soon as the ad loaded it forwarded me to a site with the fake virus warnings: http://savertasksdeliverer.info/198ar58 ... 52c4a/pr2/

Unfortunately didn't see the ad responsible.
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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Lemegeton » 18 Jul 2012, 03:49

this has been happening to me too
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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Benwatton92 » 19 Jul 2012, 18:17

I have had the same problem using Firefox just now
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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Smeghead » 15 Aug 2012, 22:55

Oh a somewhat related topic; Have they disabeled all ads on the forum?

I've never had an issue with ad hijacks on this site (maybe because the only ads I've ever seen are for LRR stuff), but since about a week back or so all the ads have been replaced with "Broken image"

Is this a step by LRR to stop hijacks by removing all ads?
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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Lord Chrusher » 16 Aug 2012, 00:27

I am also not getting any ads.

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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Master Gunner » 16 Aug 2012, 03:31

Same.

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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Jamfalcon » 16 Aug 2012, 07:56

No ads here either for the last week or so.

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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Metcarfre » 16 Aug 2012, 12:50

I am getting ads (sometimes);

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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Keab42 » 18 Aug 2012, 09:23

The Broken ads for me are the ones for the LRR store...
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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Foxmar » 26 Nov 2012, 17:48

I am getting ads sometimes.
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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Dubious_wolf » 26 Nov 2012, 23:20

Getting ads in the archive. RigHt in the middle of my screen, so I can't watch anything.
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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Moshi » 30 Nov 2012, 04:40

Clicking on forum from the main site I got a redirect ad, on of the ones were a ad website pops up then it says click here to return to site.

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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Dubious_wolf » 06 Dec 2012, 13:09

Dammit those stupid things are on my iphone now.
Pop up adds whe going into video archive. "Ads by vpodia".
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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby phlip » 01 Jan 2013, 05:24

The forum straight-up isn't working for me at the moment unless I enable ad-block... with every browser I've tried (Firefox, Chrome and IE; Linux and Windows). It looks like the ad scripts are doing something truly horrifying with document.write(), and the entire body of the page ends up being parsed as part of a <script> tag. So you're left with just the logo and menu links at the top, an ad down the side, and nothing else.

I'm not entirely sure how they managed it... I tried to read what the scripts were doing, but I got as far as reading this mess:

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document.write('<SCR'+'IPT type="text/javascript">');
document.write('document.write(\'<scr\'+\'ipt type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.360yield.com/adj?p=17195&w=160&h=600&tz=\'+(new Date().getTimezoneOffset())+\'&click3rd="><\/scr\'+\'ipt>\');');
document.write('</SCR'+'IPT>');
document.write('');
document.write('');
when I closed the tab by reflex to prevent further brain damage.
[edit] Actually, I was nearly there... the script mentioned there is the culprit, it document.write()s a start script tag with no end-script tag, so everything after it in the page is rolled into that script tag and then not displayed. [/edit]

Every now and again a page will actually load (possibly coincidence, but it was often the first time loading it in a new browser to test) but after browsing around and refreshing a couple of times it would break. And even when it was working, the formatting was still very broken.

Removing the exception in the ad blocker fixes it, since it doesn't run whatever script is misbehaving, but obviously I'd rather that not be my permanent answer...
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Re: Ad Hijack

Postby Master Gunner » 01 Jan 2013, 11:00

The same thing happens on my desktop. I thought it was just my desktop been derpy though, since it hasn't happened on any other machine I've used.
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