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Doofy
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Sep 29, 2010, 06:21 AM
 
At the bottom of the page, I'm occasionally getting vertical ads. Facebook.
     
ghporter
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Sep 29, 2010, 08:13 AM
 
That's unfortunate and inappropriate. If you can get an ad URL it will help nail down exactly which advertising service is doing this. I'm going to pass this on anyway, but it'll take more time to fix without a specific service to talk to...

Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
     
Doofy  (op)
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Sep 29, 2010, 06:19 PM
 
OK, it finally popped up again.
ClickToFlash installed...

Says "img.mediaplex.com" on right click.
Shows "Facebook Ads" if you click on it (to show the flash).
Goes to "http://ad.yieldmanager.com/support/click_error.html" if you click on it.

I'd post pic, but I haven't got an FTP client installed at the mo. It's about 600 pixels tall by 150 wide.
     
Demonhood
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Sep 29, 2010, 07:37 PM
 
It has been elevated to the proper authorities.
     
Laminar
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Sep 30, 2010, 12:20 AM
 
     
Doofy  (op)
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Sep 30, 2010, 02:32 AM
 
Yes. Like that.
But at the bottom.
     
Rumor
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Sep 30, 2010, 03:53 AM
 
I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
     
Doofy  (op)
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Sep 30, 2010, 06:55 AM
 
Originally Posted by Rumor View Post
That's not a fix - it'd still bugger up the layout with the vertical blank placeholder, wouldn't it?

You know you're not supposed to encourage the punters to avoid the only thing that's paying for the site, no?
     
Laminar
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Sep 30, 2010, 10:02 AM
 
Wait - so where's all that cash I've been sending to Demonhood been going?
     
Phileas
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Sep 30, 2010, 10:35 AM
 
I had overlays recently that you had to click to close. Only happened once and I automatically got rid of it without thinking.
     
ajprice
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Oct 18, 2010, 07:44 AM
 
Just had a vertical Facebook footer ad in iMac/eMac/Mac mini forum.

It'll be much easier if you just comply.
     
reader50
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Oct 18, 2010, 02:33 PM
 
We need a link URL from it.
     
ajprice
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Oct 20, 2010, 11:08 AM
 
Had it again, its a flash banner so I can't copy the link from it, and it redirects a couple of times, VERY quickly!

The final page it goes to is Advertising | Facebook

I managed to screenshot the address (although the first address continues out of the address bar!) for both.

This is the ad


This is the first address..



and the second

It'll be much easier if you just comply.
     
reader50
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Oct 20, 2010, 01:56 PM
 
Originally Posted by ajprice View Post
Had it again, its a flash banner so I can't copy the link from it, and it redirects a couple of times, VERY quickly!
Report referred upstairs.

If you use Firefox, you can beat those quick redirects using the History window. It not only shows all intermediate addresses, it allows easy text copying of the URLs.
     
   
 
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