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ARCHIVE: 2017 Disruptive Ads / Advertisement on FT Reports
Jan 29, 2017, 8:38 pm
#77
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Gulf Coast
Programs: Hilton Honors Lifetime Diamond; National Car Rental Executive Elite
Posts: 2,319
When browsing on my iPhone (Safari), the forums will behave very sluggishly and my iPhone will get incredibly hot to the touch. Something on this site is eating up a ton of processing power.
Jan 30, 2017, 2:54 am
#78
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Rhineland-Palatinate
Programs: *A Gold (A3), HHonor Gold
Posts: 5,684
Ads are the ones eating those power. They also drains the battery and increase by a multiplier of 2-3 times the amount of MBy used when browsing the site.
Jan 31, 2017, 3:33 pm
#79
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: EXT, LHR & ORD
Programs: AA EXP MM, HH Diamond
Posts: 1,613
Same ad here on Android tablet
Feb 1, 2017, 5:26 am
#80
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: US of A
Programs: Delta Diamond, United 1K, BA Blue, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 1,775
2 things to report about the ads below:
a) Having an ad both above and below the forums header is overkill
b) That betting ad shouldn't be shown (the other one is not really relevant either tbh)
a) Having an ad both above and below the forums header is overkill
b) That betting ad shouldn't be shown (the other one is not really relevant either tbh)
Feb 2, 2017, 8:04 am
#81
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Switzerland / Estonia
Programs: AY+ Platinum, BAEC Silver, airbaltic VIP, HH Diamond, Radisson VIP, IHG Diamond Elite
Posts: 6,525
I get all kind of redirects to crappy ads and even to the App store every single time I click on a thread.
iPhone 6s, Safari.
This is ridiculous!!
iPhone 6s, Safari.
This is ridiculous!!
Feb 3, 2017, 4:30 am
#82
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: US of A
Programs: Delta Diamond, United 1K, BA Blue, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 1,775
I have to ask: what is the planned long-term solution to continuous recurrence of disruptive ads on FT or will it forever be a game of whack-a-mole? Some websites I know of have offered an ad-free experience for a small annual contribution. It would be good to know if that is a business model that you have considered.
Feb 3, 2017, 2:04 pm
#83
No longer with Internet Brands
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Programs: DL DM 1.6MM, Marriott LT Plat
Posts: 5,343
I have to ask: what is the planned long-term solution to continuous recurrence of disruptive ads on FT or will it forever be a game of whack-a-mole? Some websites I know of have offered an ad-free experience for a small annual contribution. It would be good to know if that is a business model that you have considered.
Feb 4, 2017, 5:32 am
#84
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: US of A
Programs: Delta Diamond, United 1K, BA Blue, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 1,775
We are attempting to deal with the problem ads as they arise. I would expect, like many sites, we will never be totally problem free. We do hope to be able to offer a premium ads-free service at some point, but that is independent of our effort to provide only good ads on FlyerTalk.
Feb 4, 2017, 8:59 am
#85
Moderator: Aegean Miles+Bonus
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: AMS / ATH
Programs: AFKL Plat, A3 Gold
Posts: 7,338
Clicking on a thread from the forums main page resulted in a full-screen page, with a repeating Yes/No popup and an attempt to steal browser data - see the extension that it tries to install in the background!
This is seriously nasty stuff, and I have to say that FT is having more and more of these 'issues'. Especially on mobile this is a problem, but sometimes - like this time - even on a full desktop version.
OS: Mac OSX
Browser: Chrome latest version
Country: NL
Screenshot:
Had to kill chrome to prevent it from installing the plugin. Looking at the plugin description it seems that over 30K people have already fallen victim of this BS app:
http://upload.xandrios.net/148622395...2017.03.32.png
To be clear, such extension that reads all data sent from/to websites has one single purpose: Steal user login credentials. From hacked Facebook accounts, to Paypal, to online banking.
I own a few websites myself and fully understand and support the usage of ads. But please do make sure to deal with honest and proper brokers - as this is going much, much too far!
This is seriously nasty stuff, and I have to say that FT is having more and more of these 'issues'. Especially on mobile this is a problem, but sometimes - like this time - even on a full desktop version.
OS: Mac OSX
Browser: Chrome latest version
Country: NL
Screenshot:
Had to kill chrome to prevent it from installing the plugin. Looking at the plugin description it seems that over 30K people have already fallen victim of this BS app:
http://upload.xandrios.net/148622395...2017.03.32.png
To be clear, such extension that reads all data sent from/to websites has one single purpose: Steal user login credentials. From hacked Facebook accounts, to Paypal, to online banking.
I own a few websites myself and fully understand and support the usage of ads. But please do make sure to deal with honest and proper brokers - as this is going much, much too far!
Last edited by Xandrios; Feb 4, 2017 at 9:08 am
Feb 4, 2017, 2:10 pm
#86
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: BRS
Programs: BA Gold, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 4,986
Why am I constantly getting redirects from my iPhone to the AppStore whenever I visit this site?
I don't need to post screenshots, anyone who accesses the forum from an iOS device will know what happens.
It's awful!
I don't need to post screenshots, anyone who accesses the forum from an iOS device will know what happens.
It's awful!
Feb 5, 2017, 1:48 pm
#87
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Rhineland-Palatinate
Programs: *A Gold (A3), HHonor Gold
Posts: 5,684
Clicking on a thread from the forums main page resulted in a full-screen page, with a repeating Yes/No popup and an attempt to steal browser data - see the extension that it tries to install in the background!
This is seriously nasty stuff, and I have to say that FT is having more and more of these 'issues'. Especially on mobile this is a problem, but sometimes - like this time - even on a full desktop version.
OS: Mac OSX
Browser: Chrome latest version
Country: NL
Screenshot:
Had to kill chrome to prevent it from installing the plugin. Looking at the plugin description it seems that over 30K people have already fallen victim of this BS app:
http://upload.xandrios.net/148622395...2017.03.32.png
To be clear, such extension that reads all data sent from/to websites has one single purpose: Steal user login credentials. From hacked Facebook accounts, to Paypal, to online banking.
I own a few websites myself and fully understand and support the usage of ads. But please do make sure to deal with honest and proper brokers - as this is going much, much too far!
This is seriously nasty stuff, and I have to say that FT is having more and more of these 'issues'. Especially on mobile this is a problem, but sometimes - like this time - even on a full desktop version.
OS: Mac OSX
Browser: Chrome latest version
Country: NL
Screenshot:
Had to kill chrome to prevent it from installing the plugin. Looking at the plugin description it seems that over 30K people have already fallen victim of this BS app:
http://upload.xandrios.net/148622395...2017.03.32.png
To be clear, such extension that reads all data sent from/to websites has one single purpose: Steal user login credentials. From hacked Facebook accounts, to Paypal, to online banking.
I own a few websites myself and fully understand and support the usage of ads. But please do make sure to deal with honest and proper brokers - as this is going much, much too far!
IB those sorts of ads are close to being illlegal, this is data theft for the purpose of criminal activities. Please confirm you do not condone such activities and you are going to ensure this will not happen again ever.
Last edited by fransknorge; Feb 6, 2017 at 1:10 am Reason: Some grammar corrections
Feb 6, 2017, 12:29 am
#88
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Switzerland / Estonia
Programs: AY+ Platinum, BAEC Silver, airbaltic VIP, HH Diamond, Radisson VIP, IHG Diamond Elite
Posts: 6,525
Feb 6, 2017, 5:16 am
#89
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: DTW
Programs: Alaska, Delta, Southwest
Posts: 1,663
Same here - Nexus 6P, Android 7.1.1, latest version of Chrome:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3g...w?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3g...w?usp=drivesdk
This has been happening a lot more often lately, and it disables the back button so I have to force out of Chrome and reload everything. I whitelisted Flyertalk on my ad blocker because I thought this sort of thing wouldn't happen here...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3g...w?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3g...w?usp=drivesdk
This has been happening a lot more often lately, and it disables the back button so I have to force out of Chrome and reload everything. I whitelisted Flyertalk on my ad blocker because I thought this sort of thing wouldn't happen here...
Last edited by strickerj; Feb 6, 2017 at 5:18 am Reason: Fix links
Feb 6, 2017, 7:35 am
#90
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2013
Programs: DL PM, MR Titanium/LTP, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 10,130
Getting these in droves the past 24 hours including three just trying to post this.
Variety of different URLs. Samsung S7 Edge on Chrome
Variety of different URLs. Samsung S7 Edge on Chrome