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Murasakisuishou
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I just got redirected to a page for a fake antivirus software - I didn't manage to get the 'ads provided by', but here's the popup that showed up right before I force-quit Firefox:
Click I got caught by this ad once before - I had left an ANN window up while I went out to dinner and came back to find about a hundred of these popups on the screen. I clicked OK on the first one without reading it, thinking it would just close the window, but it loaded a spyware program onto my computer that screwed up the system so badly that I couldn't get rid of it and had to reformat my hard drive. I could access my documents and back them up, fortunately, but whenever I tried to go near the system files (or remove the program through add/remove) I'd get a stop error and the machine would restart. If anyone else sees this, don't just close the window - go to Task Manager>End Process so it won't chain react like it did with me. |
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duofangirl
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This doesn't quite fall under this category, but I don't know where else to post it. I've become a recent fan of the streaming anime on this site. Today I noticed that the ads that play were playing between every part, whether I switched to a new episode or part manually or automatically. It's been a week since I watched anything, but I don't remember the ads being this bad. I fully understand the need for ads to keep a site running. However, when the same ad pops up every time you click on a new episode/part, trying to figure out where you left off (as I was having to do), it becomes extremely irritating to the viewer and loses its appeal. Perhaps you could limit it to every 2-3 parts that are played (this is what adultswim.com does with their streaming), or at least mix it up with a few different ads? Just a thought.
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
 Posts: 1684 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Sorry, video ads are shared directly with licensors, so they're very important for us. We hope to improve the experience more as we get better at this.
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10420 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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I do apologize for the hassle when you're jumping around. Unfortunately fixing that would open up a whole that would allow people to "jump around" to avoid ads. I also apologize for the lack of variety. Obviously we want more variety too, and we're working on it. 4 ads per episode is fairly standard online (Hulu does the exact same number of ads) and a lot less than what you'd get watching the same episode on TV. If Adultswim.com is running fewer ads, it's probably because they're not selling all their inventory. One ad per 2-3 segments would barely cover the bandwidth costs. So, yeah, 1 ad per segment (plus a post-roll), 4 segments per half-hour episode is what we're going to be sticking with. If it becomes feasible to fix the jumping around issue (I can already think of how it would work, but it's much easier said than done), then we will fix it. -t |
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ManOfRust
 Posts: 1935 Location: Seattle, WA |
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I was browsing the community forum and got one of those pop up ads -- not in its own window, but the kind that sort of sits on top of what you are trying to look at and follows you up and down if you try to scroll.
It said it was from "safecount.net" and asked me if I wanted to take a survey. There was an "X" in the upper corner to close it, but after not clicking on anything for a while (maybe 30 seconds) it disappeared by itself. The bottom of the page said "ads by Media Mayhem." |
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Here is an ad that makes an annoying laugh upon loading. It repeats the laugh every time I scroll the mouse over it, which given its width is hard to avoid unless I am careful to move the mouse up the sides. Even then, scrolling the page up or down can accidentally move the pointer across the ad, meaning I have to take even more care to avoid it. Which is something I shouldn't have to resort to. At the bottom it says "Ads by Media Mayhem". However, at the bottom of another page with the same ad, it says "Ads by GN Performance". I don't care whose ad it really is, it is disruptive and unnecessarily intrusive. |
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Murasakisuishou
Posts: 1469 Location: NE Ohio |
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Just got redirected to a dating website while reading a review. The text at the bottom of the review page was "Ads by Gorilla Nation Performance & Gorilla Nation."
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Merlock Acemann
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My comp just got fried! Monday I was watching the last half of Shuffle (dubbed) when my computer started acting up; making click sounds on it's own, minamizing or closing randomly, not loading properly. I hadn't done anything but watch the videos all day. I look into what's going on since my security didn't trip and ran a scan just in case. It found a virus it IDed as rootkit32 or something in system mem and needed to restart to purge. On restart I suddenly had a new program in my TSRs, an antivirus pro, and a pop-up saying that my computer was infected and I should upgrade to the full version, that couldn't be closed. Obviously fake. I run another scan with my real security software and find viruses in everything internet related; Flash, Java, Adobe, Windows net. All the while IE keeps opening itself to websites on it's own, must porn related. No matter how many times I scanned and disinfected my comp, I couldn't get it to go away. I also couldn't use Add/Remove software without locking my comp up. So I went through My Comp at started blowing up anything that had been tagged as infected. Maybe not the best idea i've had, I got both Java and Flash before it realized what I was doing and crashed my Comp into an infanite reboot.
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
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Not invasive.. but I'm not sure Zwinky should be using anime screenshots in their false advertising.
Regrettably when I returned to ANN the ad had changed, but the ad links to http://mysupercoolblog.com/wb2/ [edit]Seen it again - "Ads by Gorilla Nation Performance & Rubicon"[/edit] Last edited by Shiroi Hane on Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:27 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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I've got "Ads by Rubicon" at page bottom but "Ads by Google" at the lower right corner of the banner:
It's written in Chinese so I know it's automatically generated with my IP address. It says "hot babes in bikini looking for mahjong partners in summer days; 17 real bishōjo waiting for you..." and if you click that link it redirects you to here (link not 100% safe at work). Basically it's a place where you can play mahjong with real girls (hired by the game company, of course). Not exactly a complaint; just something funny for those who wouldn't be able to see the ad i.e. most users of this website. 
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Symmetrical_Magician
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I've been getting a lot of those "interactive advertisements," like what many of the anime streaming sites use. For video ads, they're fine, but they are quite irritating when you're reading something, as they run similarly to regular TV commercials. They always appear in the ad space between Recent Articles and Recent Press Releases, and the bottom of the page says Ads by Gorilla Nation.
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ManOfRust
Posts: 1935 Location: Seattle, WA |
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I got another pop up ad today right after sending a PM for "Safecount.net" just like before, but this time it was an actual separate pop up window. On the bottom of the ANN page it said "ads by Gorilla Nation."
I left it up on the screen because I was going to take a screen shot to post here, but after a little while it went away on its own so I didn't get the chance. |
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theknight
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while looking through the buried treasure archives i was taken to a site called "crush Calculator" at the bottom of the page it said Ads by Gorilla Nation Performance & Rubicon.
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
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Just had a popup, triggered by an ad for CarFaxDepot. At the bottom it says "Ads by GN Performance" but when I mouseover the window status changed to "Ad powered by ZEDO".
The popup ad itself is for "UFX Bank", and is located at http://www.ufxbank.com/ufxbank-forex2100.aspx?utm_source=oridian&utm_medium=bannerrmakemoneywork&utm_campaign=makemoneywork_orid&TLID=12577&ADServer=oridian |
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theknight
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