Our ad policy does not permit auto playing audio or auto expanding ads. To report an ad, follow these steps:

1. Right click the ad (or just below if you can't right click it) and choose "Inspect" (img)

2. In the dev tools window, scroll up so that as much of the code before the highlighted line is visible (img). Expand any collapsed lines if necessary.

3. Link a screenshot of the ad, a description of the problem and a screenshot of the dev tools window in this thread.

Rimstalker

Germany734 Posts

November 10 2016 15:45 GMT

#581

wow, thanks for that R1CH. Strangely enough, it was only doing this on teamliquid.

Doodsmack

United States7224 Posts

November 19 2016 00:12 GMT

#582

Seems like the ads have crashed my browser on multiple computers, both IE and firefox.

felisconcolori

United States6168 Posts

November 24 2016 08:02 GMT

#583

So, something strange was happening with loading TL - I was getting ads that only showed up after I scrolled down that appeared to be coming from a little blob being served from TL, and which added about four or five SPANs after the call for mirror/footer.js calling back to an image encoded directly into the page using a data:image/png tag. Not excessively concerned, but after looking at the generated source I was a little concerned by the amount of inline script that seemed tied to an "adonis" label. (I hope this makes a lot more sense to someone like R1CH, as I am hopelessly out of date on most aspects of modern web design.) What made it strange was that I am not used to seeing "foo" used in code outside of most textbooks.

Because of that, I threw NoScript onto Firefox (the same source didn't produce strange SPANs in Chrome) and took another look at the generated source. And in this version, I see onmousedown calls to outbrain.com followed by a huge stack of divs and iframes.

The changed section is shown as image, spoilered below:
+ Show Spoiler [Soup] +

This is mostly just a sanity check - what's being served has some odd appearing language in it and links leading to things that concern me. (The Microsoft Surface ads didn't bother me.)

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

November 24 2016 13:16 GMT

#584

These are static ads that are served to adblock users. The inline code you're seeing is actually from your ad blocking software. Turn off adblock and it'll all go away

jake1138

United States82 Posts

November 28 2016 20:13 GMT

#585

Why are there videos? It's making my browser crawl! As I'm typing this, I get major "lag". I disabled AdBlock a long time ago to support you guys but videos that lag the browser are unacceptable. It's hard to even scroll up and down with all the "lag" caused by the video.

ZigguratOfUr

Iraq16955 Posts

December 16 2016 07:06 GMT

#586

I keep on getting served this one ad which causes Chrome to repeatedly freeze. I don't have problems with any of the other ads.
+ Show Spoiler +

+ Show Spoiler +

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

December 16 2016 10:39 GMT

#587

Looks like it might be the Flash player freezing, you may want to disable it since it's not really needed these days.

Farsath

United States2 Posts

December 19 2016 15:40 GMT

#588

In the past several weeks I have been getting adds of all kinds that cover up content. Wasn't sure if you were aware. [image loading]

jake1138

United States82 Posts

December 19 2016 16:45 GMT

#589

Once again, video ads are killing my browser. And the expanding ads mentioned above has happened to me before as well. I use Firefox, currently 50.1.0.

EDIT:

I just disabled AdBlock to see if I could report on which ads are causing this problem and it's just about every ad, both at the top right and bottom right. Ads from Mucinex, Samsung, and Mazda. Plus I got a video with audio for something car related as well, voiced by Sam Elliot.

It's out of control. It makes the site unusable. Even as I type this, I get major lag in my typing and I randomly lose focus on this textbox so I have to click the textbox so I can keep typing.

EDIT2:

Just so you're aware of the use case. I typically go to the front page and middle-click all the latest items in the Community News section. That opens multiple tabs. So it's not unusual for me to have five tabs opened while I'm sifting through the news. This, obviously, compounds the problem when each tab has an unusually high amount of processing going on.

Hmm, right now I have two tabs open, this one and another one for the front page that I just now opened. Even with AdBlock enabled, I got a video with audio, advertising Cirque Du Soleil with CHASE as a sponsor.

HTML for that video:
+ Show Spoiler +

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

December 19 2016 16:56 GMT

#590

Please follow the instructions at the top of the thread, or we're unable to discover which ads are the problem.

jake1138

United States82 Posts

December 19 2016 17:09 GMT

#591

On December 20 2016 01:56 R1CH wrote:
Please follow the instructions at the top of the thread, or we're unable to discover which ads are the problem.

See my EDIT that I was already working on as you were typing this. ;-)

jake1138

United States82 Posts

December 19 2016 17:32 GMT

#592

An expanding ad for Google Pixel:

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It would be nice if we had a "Report this ad" option below each ad. Then we could easily report bad ads and you could see more real-time trends when ads get out of control. ;-)

jake1138

United States82 Posts

December 19 2016 17:45 GMT

#593

High CPU video ad:

+ Show Spoiler +

EDIT: My PC is Intel Xeon E3-1240 3.50GHz with 32 GB RAM. So I would not expect this kind of slowdown on a couple videos. But then I don't consider video ads acceptable on any website I visit regardless. Oh, and while typing this, I lost focus five times. Sorry, if I sound salty, but this is very frustrating.

FO-nTTaX

Johto4993 Posts

December 19 2016 17:56 GMT

#594

We need a full screenshot as outlined at the top. Just the iframe makes it so much harder to locate.

jake1138

United States82 Posts

December 19 2016 18:00 GMT

#595

Well, I've done what I can for the day. The "src=" URL's open up in a browser and you can see the ad there.

RoomOfMush

1296 Posts

December 19 2016 20:09 GMT

#596

On December 20 2016 03:00 jake1138 wrote:
Well, I've done what I can for the day. The "src=" URL's open up in a browser and you can see the ad there.

I would recommend using NoScript. In order to log-in you need teamliquid.net and ajax.googleapis.com. After you have logged in you can deactivate these scripts again and stay logged in as long as you dont delete cookies. To see spoilers you need teamliquid.net but you can deactivate that again after opening the spoiler.
Its the only way for me to visit teamliquid at all at the moment. I am browsing from an old and slow computer and the ads completely kill my browser. I get out-of-memory errors and such if I keep the ads enabled.

docvoc

United States5491 Posts

December 30 2016 21:20 GMT

#597

Hey guys I'm getting an ad from Reverb.com (an online market place for musical instruments) and it takes up a lot of the streams area.

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If I didn't do this correctly, let me know. Any help would be cool

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

January 01 2017 22:32 GMT

#598

Is it appearing inside or below the sidebar? The inside ad should be limited to 300x250, the larger format is only supposed to load below.

Toast216

34 Posts

January 03 2017 19:05 GMT

#599

Hey guys, here is another instance of the add for Design By Humans blocking the livestreams on LiquidDota.com.
[image loading]

If I didn't do this correctly, please let me know and thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

docvoc

United States5491 Posts

January 05 2017 23:26 GMT

#600

On January 02 2017 07:32 R1CH wrote:
Is it appearing inside or below the sidebar? The inside ad should be limited to 300x250, the larger format is only supposed to load below.

It's appearing inside the sidebar and it blocks the streamer hyperlinks. Sorry for not responding earlier, I completely forgot to check back if there were questions.