Ad Reporting Thread

Any updates? Not that I can fix anything, but it's worth knowing, so maybe other people who run into the same problem, we can add this to a FAQ or something.

Samsung's browser does do a good job of corraling wayward ads.

I keep getting those ads-disguised-as-surveys that yank you off the site. It's driving me nuts. FWIW, I have a Samsung phone and I use the default browser.

I wonder if those ads are country specific, cause I use a Samsung too (Chrome as Browser) and only ever see ads for ProBoards itself, or sometimes some Swiss pages, but never a pop up.

Kitten porn... ok, not judging...

Bingo.

@howyummy, on mobile it is beyond the skill of 99% to take the time AND know how to determine where the pop-up's origin is. The ad reporting options, as I mentioned in the OP of this thread and was just reiterated in the previous post by regack, are only to report issues with the two banner ads (top and bottom) that always appear on the site as they are integrated to it. It is likely that indeed one of the banner ads is the culprit, but how to determine which?

By reporting an ad and guessing, I am doing ProBoards a disservice.

None of this is finger pointing at anyone that contributes to this forum by keeping it ticking and adding nice neat options that make me smile. This thread has never been a "hay guize plz fix this site u broke it m8". It is obviously (from searching their support forums and reporting there) that this is a ProBoards[/i] issue, not a yummygack issue 8)

Please never feel that I expect anything more from you folks than what you do. I want to present options to keep all of us with these issues, in the game, as long as I decide to remain. Sometimes I will be asking for help... That isn't anything more than a dude on a forum asking a forum of people a question because we are indeed special snowflakes in our own right, which is what makes forums potentially great.

I cannot count how many times I have felt both grateful and a little smaller after getting a mind-blowing assist from a friendly internet stranger, for the price of just asking

If I understand what you're saying, after installing the adblocker, you now receive popups, but you did not receive pop ups BEFORE the ad-blocker?

What happens if you remove the ad-blocker? Do the pop-ups stop?

Well now.... This is interesting.

mousestalker, please share your browser name and the ad blocker you chose. If it is the same as Pounce de León, we have an interesting convergence. If not, perhaps you can steer our friend in a better direction.

Also, www.bromite.org/

That's annoying.

regack, any ideas on a workaround or is this an annoying ad we are stuck with?

For some reason I've been running these forums in HTTP mode (think HTTPS didn't work when I tried originally, or gave a certificate warning?). I will try HTTPS which works now, since browsers usually have more restrictions on redirecting from HTTPS.

I registered and added to the thread. Weird rules on that forum tho.