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The ads are generated by the ad network to be relevant to the site's content. If the ads were totally irrelevant then the visitors to the site would have no reason to click them. This is how the ad industry works.

Ads are good in general, that i agree with. However when advertisers start infecting peoples computers with malware then the line has been crossed. If advertisers can't make money off of ads in an honest, nonharmful way then they need to rethink their advertising strategy.
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Ads are good in general, that i agree with. However when advertisers start infecting peoples computers with malware then the line has been crossed. If advertisers can't make money off of ads in an honest, nonharmful way then they need to rethink their advertising strategy.

I don't think that most malware comes in that way. as for me it could have entered because I used old setups for things like java, flash-player etc. and then updted them because it was less stuff to download that way. These old setups might have been infected because I didn't have a good antivirus that time..
and as I use AdBlocker almost allways I might just not have noticed that something was wrong all along.
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I spoke with the advertising network today and they said they will investigate the ads displayed on the site and block any that are creating popups, redirects, or anything else.
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Even though MalwareBytes didn't find anything besides some cookies I didn't encounter strange things anymore.

But thank you very much for your support and (hopefully) we can close this tread soon.
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YesAdvertising stated that they have just now blocked some ads that looked "suspicious", so we'll see if the situation improves.
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I'll disable my adblocker and see if I still encounter them.
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Did they give any specifics on what ads looked "suspicious"?
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Did they give any specifics on what ads looked "suspicious"?
Nope.
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ihave never had a single advert only ads i get is on firefox when clicking on links on google and facebook etc it opens a new browers and tabs but never on chrome
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Well after getting the "run around" from our advertising provider for the past month I finally just decided to drop them and use someone else. As a result, all of the redirection and popups and intrusive ads people were experiencing have gone away. The advertising company denied that they had anything to do with this but obviously it is directly related since the action of removing the ads fixed all of the issues.

I hope everyone can have a better experience visiting this site now and I apologize to anyone who had to deal with any of this ad stuff while trying to use the site.
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They did go away for me quite a while ago. Shortly after you announced that they had filtered some adds out.

 
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