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TRY AGAIN SPACE CADET.
Crazy ads.
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TRY AGAIN SPACE CADET.
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Oftentimes the ad will convienently forget I asked to close it out (if it even acnowledges I want to do so) and pop up full-ish screen about a minute later.
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- GTP_Jordan
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The ad provider is looking into this now.
Until this is resolved, I have disabled all ads for users signed into their accounts.
UPDATE: This should be resolved. Thank you to our ad provider for fixing this during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Until this is resolved, I have disabled all ads for users signed into their accounts.
UPDATE: This should be resolved. Thank you to our ad provider for fixing this during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
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Oh.
DriftShock
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I’m getting this fake Japanese ad asking me to “Spin for a prize”
Oh 🤬 off, this is complete bull:censored:. Are you trying to give us Viruses? DO YOU WANT TO KILL US?
I get you need ads to make money, but if you’re asking me for all of my details for a free iPhone X, I have just one thing to say
*SLOW HANDCLAP* Well done GTP, well- 🤬 -done
If you guys don’t put some control over your ads, I WILL stop using this site
Rant over
Oh 🤬 off, this is complete bull:censored:. Are you trying to give us Viruses? DO YOU WANT TO KILL US?
I get you need ads to make money, but if you’re asking me for all of my details for a free iPhone X, I have just one thing to say
*SLOW HANDCLAP* Well done GTP, well- 🤬 -done
If you guys don’t put some control over your ads, I WILL stop using this site
Rant over
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- GTP_Jordan
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No, I do not want to give you a virus nor do I want to kill you.
Ads like that are never supposed to appear on the site. If you can please provide a screenshot of the ad in question and/or the URL of the site you are redirected to it will be easier for the ad provider to figure out where these are coming from.
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GTPlanet doesn't have much control over the ads... They use an ad provider. The best way to deal with them (as Jordan said) is to not click on them and send a screenshot of it to him. No need to get angry over it.
BobK
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No, not at all. Premium is a yearly subscription at a very reasonable rate, and a lifetime subscription is also available for less than half the cost of a new game.
Or at least it used to be; I just checked the premium signup page and it appears the only current option is annual although the price is quoted as a monthly figure.
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- RaceFace85
The problem is not solved yet.
Fake contest redirection.
From the seriousness of the ads you could believe that this is a warez or porn site.
Fake contest redirection.
From the seriousness of the ads you could believe that this is a warez or porn site.
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It's more a case that it has arisen again. Sometimes the ad providers allow through ads that are not supposed to appear. Literally the only thing we can do is inform the ad provider when this happens so that they can remove it - and the screenshots help with that
I wouldn't know as I'm not familiar with those kinds of sites...
*innocent whistle*
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Been getting this redirect on my alerts page today.
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Well it stopped after I posted this, but as of this morning it’s doing it again. In fact it did it when I was quoting this post.
I’ve been getting this constantly for the last week. 2-4 pop ups in a row sometimes. I got it twice while typing this very reply...
The forums are basically unusable at this point. Crazy to me, with how legitimate this website is, that it is so technically illegitimate.
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Why have you not reported anything until now? I have asked the ad provider to take another look and they are investigating. Aside from @Sonygamer455's reports, I have not been informed of any other problems.
I realize you think I'm incompetent, but this is an unsolvable problem for any website which uses ad networks: even the New York Times is regularly affected by redirects. We spend thousands of dollars on services which scan for and block bad ads, but some can still get through. I realize it is a terrible inconvenience for you and I apologize for that, but for me and the people I employ, these are direct attacks on our livelihoods. These are thieves which are stealing from me. I do everything I can to stop them, but I cannot review every ad before it appears on the site, and I ultimately need users' help when something like this gets through.
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I must add that after my last post here, I noticed some rather unusual things.
Anytime a Harvest Stone ad shows, if I try to tap on anything, that’s where I get that redirect in the screenshot I posted earlier. Upon closing the tab and returning to GTP, I noticed my keyboard will come up and my screen will zoom in as if I was trying to type something in what appears to be an invisible textbox. Not sure if this is related to the ad or not, but it doesn’t happen unless the ad is there.
I made a short video showing what’s been happening.
Again, this happens every time that ad shows.
Anytime a Harvest Stone ad shows, if I try to tap on anything, that’s where I get that redirect in the screenshot I posted earlier. Upon closing the tab and returning to GTP, I noticed my keyboard will come up and my screen will zoom in as if I was trying to type something in what appears to be an invisible textbox. Not sure if this is related to the ad or not, but it doesn’t happen unless the ad is there.
I made a short video showing what’s been happening.
Again, this happens every time that ad shows.
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Good on you Chrome for catching onto these redirects. Really seems to freak out with them in the GTSport section.
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