What's with the annoying slide-in,pop-unders and other such ads?

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   Cardisaposted 10 years ago

   Whenever I visit a site and am bombarded with pop-unders and the ever annoying "you have a message" ads, I usually retreat and never go back. I always though these sites were spammy. Now HP has become one of them. Jeez, where will it end?

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      sheilamyersposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Not only do I get the occasional pop-ups, not long ago a lot of us were getting redirected to another site. I can't remember the exact explanation, but it had something to with the site providing the add to HP. A lot of us complained about it and someone at HP found the offending add and either had it changed or removed. If you write down what adds are popping up and report it to HP they'll probably be able to do whatever they did before to get rid of them.

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         Cardisaposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         It was happening this morning, now they are gone. There was a skyscraper to my left which slid in, a banner pop-under and a box ad bottom right. They appeared several times this morning but I am not seeing them now.

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      Marina Lazarevicposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Both pop up and pop unders are blocked in all of our ad network accounts. If you see one on the site it's probably a rogue ad. Unfortunately, rogue ads are a common problem in online advertising.   When you see an ad that violates our guidelines, we need as much information about it as possible so that we can a) figure out which network is serving it and b) submit an accurate report to the network so that they can remove it. Trust me, we don't like these ads either! They can be tricky to track down.  Please try and follow the steps here next time you see one. We'll do our best to get rid of it. Thanks!

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         paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         And FF isn't happy with the link.
         
         "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (hplink) isn't associated with any program."

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            Marina Lazarevicposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            Oops! Fixed now. Thanks

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         NateB11posted 10 years agoin reply to this

         I just got a pop-up ad when I was on My Account page, and it freaked me out and so I quickly got out of there and went to my homepage. All I remember is it was something about taking a survey, the ad had a lot of the color green in it. I realize those are vague clues, just trying to give you what I remember.

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   paradigmsearchposted 10 years ago

   I'm looking at a lovely Toyota ad in Spanish as we speak...

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      Marina Lazarevicposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      It's not a pop up, is it?

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         paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         Nah. It's just Toyota expressing their opinion of Southern California.

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            Marina Lazarevicposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            

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   Nell Roseposted 10 years ago

   That's funny because I got loads of these when I just use the usual chrome to sign in, but going to 'incognito window' stops them all so thats how I did it.

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   Radu Costinposted 10 years ago

   Incognito mode? You naughty people

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