Jun 10, 2015, 11:52 am
Last edit by: JDiver
PLEASE POST SCREENSHOTS of the FULL SCREEN and report your DEVICE TYPE, BROWSER TYPE AND VERSION, and COUNTRY where you are browsing from in your post.This thread is strictly for the reporting of disruptive ads, including unwanted popups, page hijscks, malware attempts, etc. related to ad content. Please refrain from discussion or speculation about technical issues if they are not reports as specified here.
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ARCHIVE: 2017 Disruptive Ads / Advertisement on FT Reports
Dec 3, 2017, 11:59 am
#466
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 8
This ad has made flyertalk unusable today. I’ve never considered an ad blocker til today.
Dec 3, 2017, 12:37 pm
#467
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Los Angeles, CA USA
Posts: 31,191
http://www.retailproductzone.com/?Flow=6b51d-462e-9eb5-0ccdd7eceb37&isPrePop=true&reward=walmart1000fall& o=208058&subaff1=5a244fe47a593&subaff2=203153&suba ff3=76861&subaff4=walmartfall1000&DVID=&bckm=1
This is getting ridiculous. I understand that IB/FT have bills to pay to keep the site largely free but FT has largely been unusable on mobile for months now. I am even having trouble making this post now because there is an google adware banner running vertically across the text entry box.
Not sure I see the long-term benefit to FT/IB in allowing these malware and fake app/forced redirect ads. Is there really that much ad revenue involved with these things? I mean malware, seriously?
This is getting ridiculous. I understand that IB/FT have bills to pay to keep the site largely free but FT has largely been unusable on mobile for months now. I am even having trouble making this post now because there is an google adware banner running vertically across the text entry box.
Not sure I see the long-term benefit to FT/IB in allowing these malware and fake app/forced redirect ads. Is there really that much ad revenue involved with these things? I mean malware, seriously?
Dec 3, 2017, 5:50 pm
#468
Join Date: May 2009
Location: South Park, CO
Programs: Tegridy Elite
Posts: 5,678
Dec 3, 2017, 11:52 pm
#469
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
Programs: DL GM
Posts: 515
so does your post some time ago scolding those who use pop-up blockers and the like because it’s against FT’s TOS no longer apply?
This issue really needs to be addressed by IB itself, it’s unfair of them to leave it to the Hall Monitors to continue to make policy and excuses on the run. This issue has been going on for how long now? It’s ridiculous and amateur that IB hasn’t been able to fix it.
This issue really needs to be addressed by IB itself, it’s unfair of them to leave it to the Hall Monitors to continue to make policy and excuses on the run. This issue has been going on for how long now? It’s ridiculous and amateur that IB hasn’t been able to fix it.
Dec 4, 2017, 10:25 pm
#470
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Bye Delta
Programs: AA EXP, HH Diamond, IHG Plat, Hyatt Plat, Marriott Plat, Nat'l Exec Elite, Avis Presidents Club
Posts: 16,273
More trash. iOS 11, USA.
Dec 5, 2017, 3:50 am
#471
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: London
Programs: UA GS
Posts: 2,438
I’m getting the same ads/redirects/hijacks posted already in IOS 11. Sorry FT, but I’ve re-enabled my ad blocker until you fix this.
Dec 5, 2017, 8:35 am
#472
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: HH Diamond, Marriott Gold, IHG Gold, Hyatt something
Posts: 33,539
I’m getting the same Amazon ad hijacker, as shown below. Using ios 11.0.3. It’s been happening the last week.
Dec 5, 2017, 8:52 am
#473
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2010
Programs: AA
Posts: 14,733
I started getting redirected by this last week when using my iPad. I couldn't even post about it because I would get redirected by this ad.
Dec 5, 2017, 10:26 am
#474
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: BDL/NYC/BOS
Programs: UA/*A Gold, Global Entry, Marriott Plat, Hilton+IHG Gold, Hertz PC, DL
Posts: 1,752
identical hijack ads as everyone. the site is essentially useless on my ipad (ipad pro, ios 11.2, safari).
Dec 5, 2017, 4:36 pm
#475
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: MT, USA
Programs: Ex-5C club, Skymiles Gold
Posts: 454
Issue of the hijack redirect is still persisting. Took me to : http://us.ovy0.date/amz/amz.php?bran...Viasat%20inc.#
Screen shot:
Please fix this. Having everybody using ad blockers on the site can’t be a good long term solution. Thanks.
Screen shot:
Please fix this. Having everybody using ad blockers on the site can’t be a good long term solution. Thanks.
Dec 6, 2017, 8:26 am
#476
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: DCA
Posts: 7,769
Is this the right thread in which to mention autoplay video ads? I have never noticed this before in years on FT, but today every page I load there is some ad that starts playing with a <10 year old child screaming nonsense. It's almost ESPN-level bad.
Dec 6, 2017, 10:39 am
#477
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: JAX
Programs: Ex-BA/AA/CP/LY staff, BA Executive Club Blue, IHG Diamond, Marriott Silver, Chick-fil-A Red
Posts: 3,586
I'm seeing pages constantly slowing to a crawl, crashing and reloading due to using significant memory, and Safari's dev tools say the page is making thousands of XHR requests per minute to adaptv.advertising.com and related domains which are coming back with "no ad could be found that fills this request" and because it keeps trying over and over again for eternity, crashes my browser
Sometimes it stops, but usually it doesn't, and goes on and on and on, even if Chrome is minimized. If it happens to pause for a moment then scrolling the page can cause it to start again, moving the mouse over an advert can cause it to start again, and switching to another tab can cause it to start again - sometimes in more than one tab at a time! This really, really takes up a LOT of RAM and can make the site unusable.
I made a short video of an example:
Dec 7, 2017, 9:09 am
#478
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah USA
Programs: DL 2MM/PM, HH LT <>, Amex Plat
Posts: 1,283
I finally had to install adblocker because of the ad - related issues noted above. I'm not a techie but it's clear the ads made the site unusable for me. Now I have to stare at the red boxes asking me to disable adblocker.
I want to support FT but I want to be able to actually scroll and read the pages. Once there was a paid subscription option which I happily paid and would pay again but it is not even an option now.
Jim
I want to support FT but I want to be able to actually scroll and read the pages. Once there was a paid subscription option which I happily paid and would pay again but it is not even an option now.
Jim
Dec 7, 2017, 2:03 pm
#479
Join Date: May 2009
Location: South Park, CO
Programs: Tegridy Elite
Posts: 5,678
I finally had to install adblocker because of the ad - related issues noted above. I'm not a techie but it's clear the ads made the site unusable for me. Now I have to stare at the red boxes asking me to disable adblocker.
I want to support FT but I want to be able to actually scroll and read the pages. Once there was a paid subscription option which I happily paid and would pay again but it is not even an option now.
Jim
I want to support FT but I want to be able to actually scroll and read the pages. Once there was a paid subscription option which I happily paid and would pay again but it is not even an option now.
Jim
Dec 7, 2017, 3:14 pm
#480
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Pacific Wonderland
Programs: ʙᴏɴᴠo̱ʏ Au, IHG Au, HH Dia, Nexus, Pilot FlyingJ Preferred
Posts: 5,336
I posted upthread about the auto play videos and they're still here. I've since noticed that the webpage will jump to the video every time a new one loads. Very annoying.