Over the last few days the quality of the advertisements on this site has gone down the tubes.

Now there are pop-over adds that are very annoying.

This is a high quality site that provides a great service to the Volt community and it shouldn't lower its standards to accept the small amount of $ offered by these junk ad platforms.


Sincerely,

AMEN +100!!

Are you still getting them this morning?

Just use an ad block for your browser .. Makes your internet experiance Ad free

http://download.cnet.com/Adblock-Plus-for-Mozilla-Firefox/3000-11745_4-10636539.html

Yes. I just got one a few minutes ago. Ugh!

Boy am I with you on that the flashing and you are the winner when it is an out right falsehood BAD.
Tom

Cheesy at a minimum. Annoying for sure. Makes the site look and feel cheap and trashy. Definitely not a Volt experience.

AMEN +100!!

Me too! Very annoying. And yes, I'm still getting them this AM.

I agree, The pop-up's that somehow get around my pop-up blocker or the video advertisement that just won't mute or pause bug me the most.

AdBlock ftw.

Understand the need for banner ads but these pop-up ads with voice overs are particularly annoying and distracting. The first time they came up I thought I typed in the web address wrong.....

I got the pop up ad early this morning, but just logged in and things look ok. ThanksGuys!

Volt 63

Not sure if it's related, but it seems like around the same time those pop-ups and multimedia ads started showing up, every page on the website started loading VERY SLOWLY for me, and many times the pages (including the home page) don't load at all!

One example, it took me over 10 attempts to load the home page today. Each time the title banner would load, then my computer (a newer mac) would just hang indefinitely, acting like it was still loading but with nothing happening on the page and no progress reported in my browser's activity pane.

Another example, this page I'm typing on right now, has still not finished loading and I've been on it for almost 10 minutes now typing this message.

It would be great to know if other users are experiencing this, or if I should be looking at my setup as the culprit.

EDIT: when clicking on the link for this discussion to re-read the thread, I just got redirected to a casino website. I didn't click on any (visible) link other than the title of the thread, and a new page opened with the unrelated website (even though my pop-up blocker is active). Maybe some black hat is messing with the site's code...?

Worse today than yesterday!

No ads or pop-ups with iPhone app.


Sent from my Autoguide iPhone app

NoScript works well on Firefox on MAC. I put NoScript in a while back because this site had failing adds.
My iPad is OK as well.

I hope everyone is aware that GM does not own or operate this Web site.

vBulletin Solutions, a division of Internet Brands, is a separate company. Either they put in the advertising or they were hacked.

Check out the bottom of this web page.

I hope everyone is aware that GM does not own or operate this Web site.

vBulletin Solutions, a division of Internet Brands, is a separate company. Either they put in the advertising or they were hacked.

Check out the bottom of this web page.Actually Mike vBulletin is merely the company that provides the forum software, (as they do in a LOT of fourms)
But you are corect this site is not affliated with General Motors and is owned and operated by a company called VerticalScope.
The moderator staff are all volunteers.
I have sent emails to our site administrator regarding the recent ads.
Hopefully it's something they are in control of.
WOT

can i get some screen shots of the ads and some url's I need to see where they are and what is triggering them.

can i get some screen shots of the ads and some url's I need to see where they are and what is triggering them.

I added fake zones to my DNS for these domains:

bidvertiser.com
clickbank.net
gretchen-club.de

and that cleared up the most heinous of the adds although a new one snuck through today.

The forum web administrators are looking into the cause of the recent escalation in the pop-up ad content
Nothing was changed as far as they were aware, so it's possible it's some sort of spam attack
Stay Tuned!

WOT

Here's an example from BidVertiser. It slid up from the bottom of the screen on the home page. I am using Chrome.

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I got these at about 10AM EDT
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The forum web administrators are looking into the cause of the recent escalation in the pop-up ad content
Nothing was changed as far as they were aware, so it's possible it's some sort of spam attack
Stay Tuned!

WOT


I presume the site admin's know there was a recently announced mySql bug that allows people to get access and inject stuff.. Anyone using mySql should upgrade to the newest releases where the bug is patched.