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12-26-2016, 02:06 PM
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Dear RC Universe -
The service(s) you use for advertisements are doing bad things with the browser. At the moment, there is actually an ad on your site that redirects the browser to a different website... That's bad ummmkay?
Jason
The service(s) you use for advertisements are doing bad things with the browser. At the moment, there is actually an ad on your site that redirects the browser to a different website... That's bad ummmkay?
Jason
Last edited by PerryCodes; 01-04-2017 at 10:56 PM.
12-27-2016, 02:05 PM
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I've been getting strange pop up lately too,,, tells me it my ISP and wants me to take a survey,, Another thing that only happens on RCU,, I thought it was malware on my old machine,, but it happen on the first day on my brand new lap top too. Happens if I hover on one page too long,, weird
12-27-2016, 02:13 PM
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Yep - that ISP survey one is probably the second most intrusive... it redirects to a completely different website and then fires off a popup. Luckily with that one all you need to do is hit your browser "back" button... others are not so "kind" ...
Point is, these are the types of advertisers I'd expect to see from PORN SITES.... NOT a respectful R/C one. It's a major black eye, in my opinion.
Point is, these are the types of advertisers I'd expect to see from PORN SITES.... NOT a respectful R/C one. It's a major black eye, in my opinion.
12-27-2016, 02:15 PM
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By the way, you notice it when you stay on a page for an extended period of time because the ads cycle and eventually will hit the obnoxious ones...
12-28-2016, 09:20 AM
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12-28-2016, 09:26 AM
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I can only speak for the one scenario at the moment, and I should have posted this with my original whine-fest... I'm seeing this on OS X v 10.11.6 / Chrome browser. I will test the scenario on Safari and report back. I would assume the behavior is OS-agnostic... I would not, however, expect to see the same behavior on mobile devices. They handle redirects and popups differently than desktop browsers.
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12-28-2016, 09:41 AM
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And to those who work hard in order to provide a resource like this for the world to use for free, I didn't mean to offend you or trivialize your genuine efforts with my first post. It was meant to be sensationalist and get people's attention. So in that regard, I guess it worked. I do apologize if anyone was offended.
Jason
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12-28-2016, 12:03 PM
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Desk Top for me, don't know about mobile,, this had been happening every once in a while on my old Vista based machine for months,, just got a brand new windows 10 lap top,,it showed up again the first couple hours I had the machine running,, only happens here on RCU
next time it happens I'll link the URL it want to take me to
next time it happens I'll link the URL it want to take me to
12-29-2016, 06:03 AM
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this is the source
view-source:http://www.mellowsurvey.com/?
I redacted the whole link because it identifies my IP
I sent the whole link in a PM
I can send you the html code, but I'd need an email address,, too many characters for a PM
view-source:http://www.mellowsurvey.com/?
I redacted the whole link because it identifies my IP
I sent the whole link in a PM
I can send you the html code, but I'd need an email address,, too many characters for a PM
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01-05-2017, 10:51 AM
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01-09-2017, 07:38 AM
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Scale, no one is ever here on the weekends. Posting updated info for us to come into on Monday is appreciated, but memes aren't particularly helpful. We are continuing to work on the problem. We think it's an ad network again, since it is effecting a couple of other sites, as well.
01-09-2017, 08:46 AM
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Scale, no one is ever here on the weekends. Posting updated info for us to come into on Monday is appreciated, but memes aren't particularly helpful. We are continuing to work on the problem. We think it's an ad network again, since it is effecting a couple of other sites, as well.
Sorry if I'm a little cynical, I'm used to being blown off after reporting problems.
Good luck