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at 22 Oct 2009: 05:25

I was browsing a few sites at the same time, one of them being fchan, when I heard some ad for that crappy 2012 movie. Wanting to get rid of it, I check the more obvious sites, in terms of the pages I had open, for having stupid ads with sound. "Surely it's not fchan" I thought. I was wrong.

Wtfux D=
Can we please get rid of those? It's not uncommon for people to have multiple windows up, and those noise ads are even more annoying when they are playing many times simultaneously.

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at 22 Oct 2009: 05:40

What's worse is when you've got 40+ tabs and an ad starts playing and You can't tell where it's coming from.

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at 22 Oct 2009: 13:10

It's also making the site drag horribly if left going for too long.

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at 22 Oct 2009: 14:42

What operating system are you running? And on what browser?

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at 22 Oct 2009: 17:00

I got audio ads talking over each other from one tab.  I couldn't even  make out anything they were saying, except I think one was for Lysol (it ran the longest, I caught the very end by itself).  If the audio ads don't go away, I'll have to switch back to firefox and use adblock.  I don't want to do that, but there's no way I'm putting up with anything this annoying.

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at 22 Oct 2009: 17:02

i just turn on peer guardians HTTP ad blocking, works great.

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at 22 Oct 2009: 17:34

If you're using Windows (Vista or 7), you can right-click the volume control icon located in the system tray and select "Open Volume Mixer". When the dialog opens, locate your browser on the dialog and click the mute button. Doing this mutes just your browser, so you'll still be able to hear sounds from other applications.

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at 22 Oct 2009: 19:29

Can't confirm the source of this, but noticed it this morning and reported it... and it's horrible.  Looking at what's going on, several FULL PAGES are getting loaded into an iframe somewhere...  Using the Firefox Web Developer extension, I count roughly 7 pages, in addition to all the normal stuff that's in there (yeah, not counting ads).

To make matters worse, I got redirected to another website (a "fake antivirus" type page) one time.  While this hasn't happened again, this certainly seems dubious behavior.

While I agree ad-blocks aren't the nicest thing in the world... this is unacceptable behavior.

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at 22 Oct 2009: 20:17

Bit more information: this particular ad is the culprit:
http//ads.bo/...

Good news: block this ad?  You're home free.  Still supporting fchan, but that awful ad that kills your browsing experience is gone.  How to actually block it is an exercise left to the reader.

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at 22 Oct 2009: 20:17

Bit more information: this particular ad is the culprit:
http//ads.bo/...

Good news: block this ad?  You're home free.  Still supporting fchan, but that awful ad that kills your browsing experience is gone.  How to actually block it is an exercise left to the reader.

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at 22 Oct 2009: 20:21

Whoops, double post.  My fault... teach me not to force-reload.

My apologies... anyone want to make me not look like a total idiot, please feel free. :)

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at 23 Oct 2009: 05:33

Interestingly, I just clicked on /s and was forwarded to a mediaresearch URL that attempted to install one of those fake spyware programs using javascript.

Bump for getting these ads out of rotation?

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Lennard at 24 Oct 2009: 00:24

I recently got an ad pop appear that set off my antivirus software when i clicked on /s/ i diddent catch what the name of the virus cause was.

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at 24 Oct 2009: 14:41

I already said it in the other thread about this, but the answer to these problems is NoScript.

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at 25 Oct 2009: 17:22

>>14

And for those of us not using FireFox, that isn't the answer.  Has anyone been able to get in touch with an admin about all this?  That would probably get more done.

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at 25 Oct 2009: 17:43

>>15
I can chat with mods and admins all day and they'll happily answer. Then again, I'm not too blind to miss that there's also an IRC channel for Fchan. :)

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at 26 Oct 2009: 00:30

>>15

So just use Firefox on Fchan.  It's not my normal browser either.

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at 26 Oct 2009: 05:17

>>15

Privoxy worked for me in Chrome:
http://lifehacker.com/5046529/how-to-block-ads-in-google-chrome

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at 26 Oct 2009: 13:24

>>16

Are they able to do anything? Since not everyone uses the same broswer, it would just be nice if they were able to get rid of this problem so that fchan is usable again D:

The front page and discussion page work just fine. But when those sound ads pop up, everything goes to hell and the site locks up.

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at 27 Oct 2009: 22:25

It also crashes the computer

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at 28 Oct 2009: 01:09

>>20

That probably mean's your computer's been screwed.  They crash my browser, but shouldn't bring down your whole computer.  If they do, then you've probably gotten malware installed.

Just in case anyone doesn't see this -- the objective of these ads is to exploit your browser to install malware on your computer.  I'd suggest staying away until they're gone and/or making sure your computer/browser has the latest security patches.

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at 28 Oct 2009: 07:23

Adbnlockplus is your friend! seriously; do it!

www.adblockplus.org

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at 30 Oct 2009: 02:16

>>22

Do they have somthing for junk mail?

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at 30 Oct 2009: 10:18

>>23

Well, AdBlock Plus works in Thunderbird, but you might not need it...

Most desktop email clients (that I've used) have some sort of filtering mechanism built in and most email hosts do a reasonable job of spam filtering anyway. Unfortunately, you'll need to be more specific about your situation and needs if you want advise beyond just "read your email client's manual" (or "search with Google" ^-^).

U, and if you just want to be blocking images and so forth inside emails, again most (all?) email clients will let you enforce "Limited HTML" or "Plain Text" rendering modes instead of the default Full HTML. "Limited HTML" should strip any active content or other nasties. "Plain text" is exactly what is says on the can and some emails may appear "broken" rendered that way. Amongst web-mail apps I know that at least Gmail allows enforcing of Plain Text rendering.

Is this even roughly, vaguely the kind of info your were looking for?

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