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Offline Carling

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Ad on FreeRepublic?
« on: July 13, 2015, 02:20:01 am »
I use TOS as a news aggregate only, but has anyone else not only had ads there in the past two days, but also virus attempts?   One could conclude that they are now selling ad space, but have almost zero safety measures for those ads.

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Re: Ad on FreeRepublic?
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2015, 02:45:28 am »
Quote from: Carling on July 13, 2015, 02:20:01 am
I use TOS as a news aggregate only, but has anyone else not only had ads there in the past two days, but also virus attempts?   One could conclude that they are now selling ad space, but have almost zero safety measures for those ads.

Hmmm...I don't see any ads...I wonder if my add-on Ad Block on Firefox is blocking them..
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Re: Ad on FreeRepublic?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2015, 02:53:07 am »
I've thought about doing this to help pay the bills here..I wonder how lucrative it is..something I need to look into maybe.
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Re: Ad on FreeRepublic?
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2015, 02:58:02 am »
Quote from: mystery-ak on July 13, 2015, 02:45:28 am
Hmmm...I don't see any ads...I wonder if my add-on Ad Block on Firefox is blocking them..

My mouse's built in bullshit filter won't execute clicks on that URL.

Can't help you guys.
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Re: Ad on FreeRepublic?
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2015, 09:15:02 am »
Not getting any ads, even after disabling Adblock. You might want to run a full scan with Malwarebytes, just in case you picked up a little bug on your computer from somewhere.

Myst, all I can tell you is they aren't very lucrative for a smaller, low traffic site - I have removed ads from mine as it wasn't worth the irritation to the readers. Here gets enough traffic to maybe make them worth the aggravation - I don't know.
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Re: Ad on FreeRepublic?
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2015, 01:34:02 pm »
Judging by what EC's saying, yeah, it sounds like there's already a trojan on your computer. Run Malwarebytes, and if that doesn't work, well, it will probably take some aggressive pinpointing to see what got onto your computer.

The only "ads" I see on FR are for their quarterly Freepathons.
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Re: Ad on FreeRepublic?
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2015, 02:56:37 pm »
I hate ads.  What I really despise are sites that you can't even hover a cursor over any area on the screen without obnoxious things popping up - I get the hell off of those sites!  I can understand why you would consider it though Nancy.

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Re: Ad on FreeRepublic?
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2015, 03:59:02 pm »
Download and run TDSSKiller.

It's free and very effective in tandem with Malwarebytes.
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Re: Ad on FreeRepublic?
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2015, 06:07:57 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on July 13, 2015, 01:34:02 pm
Judging by what EC's saying, yeah, it sounds like there's already a trojan on your computer. Run Malwarebytes, and if that doesn't work, well, it will probably take some aggressive pinpointing to see what got onto your computer.

The only "ads" I see on FR are for their quarterly Freepathons.


Which seem to run year round.
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Re: Ad on FreeRepublic?
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2015, 06:12:55 pm »
Quote from: alicewonders on July 13, 2015, 02:56:37 pm
I hate ads.  What I really despise are sites that you can't even hover a cursor over any area on the screen without obnoxious things popping up - I get the hell off of those sites!  I can understand why you would consider it though Nancy.

Well they are aggravating and I won't do it..but I may have to run a mini thon to help cover upcoming expenses
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Re: Ad on FreeRepublic?
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2015, 06:34:38 pm »
I went to check FR and didn't see any ads. I looked at the source code of the page and don't see any ad triggers either. You my have a toolbar or app that is causing them or worse, malware. I would download and run Malware bytes to be safe.
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Re: Ad on FreeRepublic?
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2015, 07:47:06 pm »
Quote from: alicewonders on July 13, 2015, 02:56:37 pm
I hate ads.  What I really despise are sites that you can't even hover a cursor over any area on the screen without obnoxious things popping up - I get the hell off of those sites!  I can understand why you would consider it though Nancy.

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Re: Ad on FreeRepublic?
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2015, 02:49:05 am »
Quote from: Carling on July 13, 2015, 02:20:01 am
I use TOS as a news aggregate only, but has anyone else not only had ads there in the past two days, but also virus attempts?   One could conclude that they are now selling ad space, but have almost zero safety measures for those ads.




You almost certainly have malware on your system that has nothing to do with FR.
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