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[About XDA developers] Nigeldg:
No offence meant to anyone here, but I'm quite surprised at all of this. Adblocks for Chrome and Firefox are available easily, nobody uses IE anymore and if you're on XDA you probably have a rooted phone and should logically therefore have an adblock app. If you really dislike ads, there's no need to put up with them ;)
[About XDA developers] roofrider:
Those without adblocks are doing xda a favour i guess.
[About XDA developers] Nigeldg:
Don't the ads only work if you click on them? As fas as I know nobody actually clicks on the ads unless it's by accident to disabling them doesn't really have a negative effect on the site :)
[About XDA developers] roofrider:
I dont click on them, but there are a few which act weird when the mouse hovers over them accidentally. Like this one.
[About XDA developers] baba123:
New Avast is too annoying, will be migrating our thousands of customers off it

I'm going to haveto agree with the OP in this one.

The advertising is becoming annoying and the re-registering method has been made to be difficult to see where the free option is...

Quickfix I disagree with you, this product is the most popular free Antivirus not because of bull**** advertising, but because of word of mouth!

Now instead of here's a great free AV the word is here is a great free AV with intrusive ads...
[About XDA developers] boborone:
nvm

trm, please delete this post
[About XDA developers] abel06:
+1

Intrusive pop-ups "mobprizes" visiting XDA with my mobile phone...
[About XDA developers] gbohm:
there were a lot of problems when you tried to access the page from your phone from germany the porn ads were awful
[About XDA developers] Goooober:
I just had the same thing. I click on 'OK' or whatever it said when i should probably have just used the back button. It took me to the mobprizes thing which is clearly a scam. Hopefully just being taken to the site but not clicking anything wont have installed any malicious (i've literally no idea about android malware/viruses etc.).
[About XDA developers] pulser_g2:
We are working on getting these ad issues resolved :)
[About XDA developers] :
Thanks Pulser.

Sent from my Sonic
[About XDA developers] Zawaser:
Will try to screenshot it next time it happens but usually on mobile a banner ad blocks off most of the page numbers at the top. Quite annoying.
[About XDA developers] GadgetGator:
For days now have been getting redirects to a "bad oink" porn site when visiting XDA. Not happy. And as I researched this issue, I noticed it's not a new problem for this site with such issues going back as least a couple of years. This site and it's advertising partners need to address this issue a lot better. It shouldn't keep happening over and over again. Not good. Especially embarassing for a techie developer site. Are the porn companies better developers? I certainly would hope not!
[About XDA developers] TheDoolster:
I am getting badoink mobile porn redirect loops and I am not happy. It popped up when I was at church and I am lucky no one saw it.
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Any motion on this? Kinda ironic that a development website is having these quite mundane issues. Perhaps disable your ads until you get it fixed?
[About XDA developers] mharris82:
Still getting porn ads...

So, it's been almost a month since the first post about someone getting porn ads on their phone. Tonight, I had the same issue - getting redirected to badoink. c o m. Now, I can't browse the site on my phone. (Luckily I was alone at the time this happened.)

This issue is extremely disturbing, even more so because there has been NO progress and/or NO update in nearly a month. If I can't trust a dev website to take care of what should be an emergency issue considering its audience, I'll have no choice but to take my ad-views, click-throughs and other support elsewhere and warn as many people as I can to do the same to avoid being served trash.
[About XDA developers] yaohen:
corner just popped up from nowhere. I may not have captured it completely
[About XDA developers] Seraz007:
adblock anyone? :rolleyes::p:silly:
[About XDA developers] AleksaSavic:
Me too.
[About XDA developers] BretonGirl:
It's seems the site owners don't care. That's why the complaints are ignored and why I don't come here as much as I used to. The annoying roll over, video and full screen pop up ads were bad enough, but the porn was the last straw. I understand ads keep this site going but you need to get it through your heads that your refusal to deal with the situation is driving people away. Get your act together and find an ad network that doesn't push scam and porn ads, and for the love of God stop pushing ads that play music or video automatically! Trust me, your users will reward you with more visits and page views.:good:
[About XDA developers] khamim:
if we share our work, it forbidden to use ad* ly?
[About XDA developers] E.Cadro:
Correct you can NOT use any type of pay-per-click sites because it violates our rules.
[About XDA developers] Clark Joseph Kent:
This thread is for Intrusive ads that may be found on/around XDA....Not for Intrusive Members, please address your legitimate issues. Thank You.
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
XDA ads have been spammy, pornographic and constantly locking up my browser. Without adblock, this site is very difficult to use. XDA has admitted knowledge of this issue but has since gone silent.
[About XDA developers] HandyBesitzer:
Can you please block the Simyo advert?? On my surface rt i have sound with that advert and this is first very annoying and second my keyboard stucks :(
[About XDA developers] js1999:
Hey guys--

I can say that we monitor this thread regularly, but most of the "bad" ads actually come through AdSense, and we don't have direct control. We do report each one, and they should eventually get taken care of. If we could do it faster we would. We clearly don't knowingly work with any partner who displays pornographic ads or auto-sound/video ads.

Very sorry about these annoyances!

Thx!
[About XDA developers] andrewilley:
To be honest, I use the XDA 2010 theme on this site anyway, which seems less prone to this sort of rubbish for some reason. Also much clearer and less cluttered for reading message threads. I tried the 2013/etc versions and hated the look and quickly went back.

Andre
[About XDA developers] thedosbox:
Anyone else been getting a fullscreen "You should update Java" ad?

Visiting xda results in a redirect to a domain called javaupdatecaa dot com - complete with the aforementioned fullscreen "update Java" message.

Note: I don't have java installed, and this only appears on xda.
[About XDA developers] cmahendra:
We can accept all types of excuses for Advts on XDA. No issues. But Ugly images like this are not welcomed. Sometimes family members are around and we feel embarrassed if such things show up on screen.

After this complaint in other sub-forum, some friends suggested me ADBLOCK addon for firefox. Now I am not seeing even good advertisements.

XDA moderators. Now think over it. Such advertisements will result in complete boycott of XDA advts. Then whats the use of showing them?

Hope you get some lesson from this.
[About XDA developers] Androidmarketuser:
Yeah I definately agree with this.

Even worse, sometimes (like right now) there are ads with sound playing in background, so everytime i open a tab (or multiple tabs) sound is being played. I disabled AdBlock as I want to support websites, but this enough and I will blacklist XDA (and deviantart) with AdBlock.

You should use a different advertisment service, there are enough with direct control of the content displayed!

Here is the link of the frame btw:

http://fra1.ib.adnxs.com/if?enc=MzMzMzMz8z8zMzMzMzPzP83MzMzMzAxAMzMzMzMz8z8zMzMzMzPzP5M6WstHRURgTvHvGbm2g1N2KXFSAAAAAHXYGwBnBwAAZwcAAAIAAACGBYoA9pwEAAAAAQBVU0QAVVNEAOgD6ANDiQAAY4wAAgMCAQIAAIYAoSIglgAAAAA.&cnd=%21ESEQGwjwq4ABEIaLqAQYACD2uRIwADjDkg5AA0jnDlD1sG9YAGD-BmgAcBR4AoABFIgBApABAZgBAaABAagBA7ABALkBMzMzMzMz8z_BATMzMzMzM_M_yQEVZ678C-HBP9kBAAAAAAAA8D_gAQA.&udj=uf%28%27a%27%2C+157525%2C+1383147894%29%3Buf%28%27r%27%2C+9045382%2C+1383147894%29%3B&ccd=%217gVsNwjwq4ABEIaLqAQY9rkSIAM.&vpid=761&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fads.admized.com%2Fadframe.php%3Fnrc%3D1%26hr%3D1%26kid%3D483%26wmid%3D1541%26pid%3D57%26sid%3D1422%26%26wsid%3D19%26rtbprovider%3Dpbmtc%26prdclick_1%3D%2524%257BPUBMATIC_CLICK_TRACKING_URL%257D%26useprenca%3D%257BPUBMATIC_SECOND_PRICE%257D%26useprencmode%3Dv%26dataid%3D12%26requestId%3D999A6D8E-61B3-4A47-B396-0A5DE73A6C72%26adWidth%3D300%26adHeight%3D250%26bidCurrency%3DUSD%26siteurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fxda-developers.com%26pageurl%3Dwww.xda-developers.com%26refurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fxdaforums.com%252Fshowthread.php%253Ft%253D1696660%2526page%253D20%26uid%3D2DFF74E2-91E3-428F-AB76-650251D42254%26ip%3D80.128.86.35%26adTagType%3DJavaScript%26adId%3D58277%26pubId%3D35527%26siteId%3D35985%26inIframe%3D1%26freq%3D2%26timezone%3D1%26screenResolution%3D1680x1050%26adPosition%3D0%252C0%252C0%26language%3Dde-de%252Cde%253Bq%253D0.8%252Cen-us%253Bq%253D0.5%252Cen%253Bq%253D0.3%26browser%3DMozilla%252F5.0%2520%2528Windows%2520NT%25206.3%253B%2520WOW64%253B%2520rv%253A25.0%2529%2520Gecko%252F20100101%2520Firefox%252F25.0%26platform%3D1%26notdm%3D1%26tgt%3D000000000%26sid%3D1422%26useprenca%3DdSlxUtHOAQAcIj5jsopOdTEToP1nSon9PSFVJA%26useprencmode%3Dv%26usepubkey%3D154157301644531329080&ct=0&dlo=1
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
I agree. If XDA is aware of their ad issues but is doing nothing about it, that's almost malicious in and of itself.
[About XDA developers] klau1:
AD sounds can not be muted anymore, THIS IS INSANE!!!

Every time you press "MUTE" it mutes it only until the current AD is finished, then the sound returns upon the playback of the next AD.

THIS IS INSANE!!!

I dont' believe in AD BLOCKERS to support this website, but if this isn't fixed this week, then SCREW XDA

Time for ADBLOCKER
[About XDA developers] roofrider:
Just use an adblocker and be done with it guys.

I just disabled mine to see how bad it is today and in the last 2 minutes there were 3 flashing and dancing "You just won an iphone" ad.

Lets see how long i can go without enabling it again.

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[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Use adblocker. Why support XDA's advertising initiative if they have spammy malicious ads? Support them by using the forums.
[About XDA developers] godutch:
I just got a popup warning I have been infected with a virus, although I use adaway. I couldn't see the ad just the popup. I lead me here

http://nl.android24-7.mobi/msisdn?url=http://wires.orsedd.com/wires/44/resume/10894218
[About XDA developers] oshax:
I have been having trouble with these video ads as well.

I use my PC as a media machine, I will be watching TV or a movie and then all of a sudden some ad from this site will start talking... VERY intrusive.

Also this toe fungus ad, is really bothering me, it is disgusting and follows you no matter where you scroll... it's awful!!!!!!!
[About XDA developers] klau1:
WOW, the American Standard Toilet Video Commercial AD DOESN'T even have a MUTE Button!! This is the MOST intrusive site I've ever seen on the Internet!!
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Leave it to XDA to understand they have an ad issue and do nothing about it.
[About XDA developers] roofrider:
Yeah that same ad just showed up on my screen, damn it's gross.

Don't even want to look at that fungus ad a few posts above this one.
[About XDA developers] andrewilley:
Just switch your forum view mode to XDA 2010 (only banners, no square ads). I've never seen video ads in this mode, and to be honest it's clearer and easier to read anyway.

Andre
[About XDA developers] cmstlist:
I've gotten a few autoplay video ads in the past few weeks but inevitably I have a bunch of tabs open and don't have the patience to hunt down the offending ad and take a screenshot. Usually I just head straight to Task Manager and kill Flash Player. However I'll try and remember to actually find out what it is next time :)
[About XDA developers] AmirDada21:
There is always the XDA app - but I do agree the site at times can be full of apps!
[About XDA developers] cmstlist:
Okay I found the offending autoplay ad - it's for Air Wick car filters/fresheners and it loaded to the right side of the top of a thread page. I was going to take a screenshot but accidentally hit the wrong key and lost the ad.
[About XDA developers] BretonGirl:
I gave up and started using Ad-Block. The scammy ads, the flashing dancing ads, the infuriating autoplay video ads, the disgusting toe nail fungus ad, just too much. The admins have shown they don't give a damn, so I feel I had no choice.
[About XDA developers] glebonator:
I'm about to do the same. I can tolerate ads, but when they begin auto-playing and I can't even figure out in what tab - this pretty much is an automatic blacklisting of the site. WTF, xda??
[About XDA developers] Jordan32710:
Browsing this post and boom I get redirected
[About XDA developers] FuPete:
Same here. I never used Ad-Block on my PC before, but these autoplay ads were getting on my nerves, so I downloaded this addon and added all my favourite websites to the whitelist, except XDA.

Please use appropriate ads.
[About XDA developers] codeman05:
The video ads that auto-play (and worst yet can't mute/pause half of them) are getting out of hand.

I've never used an ad blocker before but loaded one up today strictly for XDA.

I don't mind supporting XDA via ads but this is ridiculous, clean it up.
[About XDA developers] anthony2312:
tiannaus people

can't you use a blocker?
[About XDA developers] Morkai Almandragon:
every single page has auto play video adds with zero controls now :/
[About XDA developers] decalman:
Spam and automatic download

I'm getting this every time i get here on my phone

doesn't let me see anything on this site and when i try to close the window it automatically downloads this
[About XDA developers] jt3:
I agree. The auto-play ads with sound (that can't be muted) are ridiculous. I have no problem financially supporting a good site. Give me a paid subscriber option that omits ads (that's not outrageously priced), and I'll take it. I'll even deal with ads to help the site out, until they get too intrusive. These ads cross the line, and I'm afraid I'll have to jump on the adblock bandwagon.
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Report it to Google.
[About XDA developers] Bejda:
It became a pain to browse xda lately on android, what's up?

Android market gets launched at almost every pages, that http://lovelinks.us/010/mobo/mobo.php shown on screenshot above is the worst among all these mobo stuffs,it forces me to close tab or go back two pages before and is back again 2 seconds after (if cancelled page becomes unresponsive..).

I never encountered such thing on any website it's ridiculous, really what's up?
[About XDA developers] Jim267:
Music ad

Generally I don't mind ads but there is one that starts playing some kind of music and it really gets to my nerves.
[About XDA developers] rbrandser:
YEAH, WTF?

This is the worst thing ever, it has totally ruined the entire forum.

That ad behaves like malware, when I press cancel it automatically downloads.

I have to close the tab or go back a couple of pages, really really posses me off.

I checked my download folder, and it have downloaded 3 times. Without my permission!!

I checked that app in the play store, and people who has actually installed it are mad over there, it reinstalls itself if you remove it.

I have reported the app to Google, and now it's time to remove this app from this forum. ASAP!
[About XDA developers] ApriliaM3:
Thanks for the info guys... I've brought this matter to the attention of Admins.
[About XDA developers] z-vet:
Use hosts file published here on XDA, guys. Blocks everything and does not eat the battery. Just search for «Mother of all Ad-Blocking»: totally worth it, you will see no ads at all.
[About XDA developers] Ce:
+1 the fact that these ads start on every new page over and over again is very irritating. XDA is the first site I have to mute the sound before going on. I'm seriously considering an ad blocker. ADS is no problem but this is, as said before, ridiculous.
[About XDA developers] VuDuCuRSe:
Damn, it's impossible to browse this forum without ad-block!

For some days now, every once in a while I get some lame popup saying I've won some iPad or whatever and regardless if I click OK or press escape, my xda tab is forwarded to some lame ad page.

Here's a screenshot: http://pbrd.co/1adxTjz
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Keep reporting the forum URL to Google for offensive ads. The more people that do it, the quicker it gets fixed. XDA doesn't seem to want to fix it.
[About XDA developers] usmaak:
Tired of Jelly Splash popup

For the last week or two, I have been getting bombarded with popup ads for Jelly Splash. I use an iPad to view the site, so I am not sure if it is happening on all platforms. This morning, I noticed that the popup ad displays right after any banner ad for Jelly Splash is displayed.
[About XDA developers] steviemch:
Virus scan crap

This is happening more frequently whenever I browse xda on my N7 with chrome beta. Only ever on xda, no other site. I posted a screenshot on G+ half an hour ago and got a lot of responses from people saying they've had the same popup. Getting quite annoying now.
[About XDA developers] andreacorti:
me too! somwthing about "java update required" sh*t
[About XDA developers] duniecool:
Chrome

Chrome has some fantastic ad blocking that works for almost all sites
[About XDA developers] uscpsycho:
+1??? How about +10000!

I always thought of XDA as a professional, responsible, user friendly place. Now I think of it as anything but. With all the audio ads that can't be stopped this is now the most annoying site I visit. And that's because it's the ONLY one I have to deal with this level of intrusion. There is the odd site I run into with auto-playing audio but there is always a way to stop it. Not here though. Enough!
[About XDA developers] usmaak:
I can't navigate any longer without the Jelly ads popup. So now I'm using Atomic Browser. Problem solved. Well, not solved, but avoided. I agree with above posters. Out of all the sites I visit on a regular basis, this site has the most obtrusive advertising.
[About XDA developers] juanhbk1:
About 50% of the time I get on here I get THE loudest Skype incoming Call from "Olga" that won't stop. So annoying.
[About XDA developers] SweetPant:
Anyone got "Bitcoin Duplicator" ads? I got it quite frequently these days.
[About XDA developers] tbcpn:
Ditto here. Just started a few days ago, and only when browsing the xda forums with my iPad (I use Tapatalk on my S4 and N7 v2).
[About XDA developers] Jack_71:
Please stop the Video in forum!!!

Internet isn't flat for all the users !!

mobile broadband have hight costs, and here home internet have limits ( canada)

please stop this annoing videos
[About XDA developers] GavTheStoner:
Keep getting redirected to a FAKE site saying that I need to update adobe flash player to view this page.

Adresses like

www.adobeoo.com

www.adobeupdate24.com

and so on

Only just started happening today

Also on my phone I get redirected to a page that trys to download apk's to my phone

Nice one XDA, trying to infect both my PC and my phone is not a good move to get more visitors....

EDIT: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA when i submitted this post it did it again.
[About XDA developers] ironman38102:
+1 Im annoyed with these redirected fake sites and sites that auto start downloading mobogenie apk

Its Going To Be LEGEND--Wait For it--DARY!-Barney Stinson(How I Met Your Mother)
[About XDA developers] Steve-x:
+2 Avast is now blocking the entire xda site whenever these adds pop up.

Is this forum a ship with no captain, this has been going on for nearly a week, do the owners not care at all?
[About XDA developers] svetius:
We're very sorry about the annoying ads. The fake sites, the videos that auto-play with sound, the auto-download ads. They're awful and we don't want them on our site (or any site! ever!).

We're working with our ad provider to kill the offending ads. What is super helpful is when you guys provide screenshots, links, and even source code when you see a terrible ad. We can't do much with "I got a laughing clown ad with loud audio!" but we can do a lot when you provide more info.

Again, sorry about these ads! We f#@(*!*#@ hate them. :(
[About XDA developers] mbirth:
Isn't it your ad provider's task to check all ads they're distributing and only deliver ads according to your specifications? Maybe it's time to find a new ad provider if they are unable to identify those malicious ads themselves.
[About XDA developers] decalman:
i was able to work around the ads by installing tapatalk on the phone

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quoord.tapatalkpro.activity&hl=en
[About XDA developers] creambyemute:
Mobo lovelink.us pops up nearly every time. Resulting in clicking back 5 times and then instead that it returns me to thesite I was it closes the tab (nice behaviour isn't it?).

There's no way of clicking it away and preventing to open playstore and afterwards close my tab. UX on mobile devices is just horrible.

XDA, FIX IT! It's been like that for over 3 weeks now!

If you need screenshots, tell me. I'll grab my mobile device and visit XDA. It's really easy to reproduce and extremely annoying!

Activated Adblocker on all my devices now (even desktop) until this gets fixed. Feeling ignored by xda, so lets ignore your ads
[About XDA developers] BDAZZG1:
There's nothing more annoying than a video that auto starts where you cant even see it and comes blaring out your speakers. see bottom left of screenshot
[About XDA developers] gsm-man:
Scareware

I got a bad case of German language scareware. It states that there are problems with my Flash Player because "infected files" have "manipulated" my player. I'm supposed to click the red button to "clean the files". Yeah, right... I don't know the target of this ad (I WILL NOT CLICK IT) because hovering it does not display the URL in the browser's status bar as all other links would do.

To add to this I'm also super annoyed about a) the sheer amount of ads on this site (maybe the reason I visit it so infrequently), b) all the trap ads, c) the video ads (bandwidth is not free for everybody, mind you), d) the stupid companies that use targeted ads for items WHICH I HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT FROM THEM!
[About XDA developers] cbadk:
MoboGenie

Hi XDA :(

The last two month I have received forced downloads from a company called mobogenie. Without my consent, it downloads apk files to my phone. It seems some people claim it´s spyware since the app has access to your phone records and stuff like that.

I have attached some pictures of the advert and the proof of the file download...It happens almost every time i use XDA´s website with my phone.

I know that you are able to block specific advertising companies on Google Adsense, so maybe that’s what needs to be done? :rolleyes:

Thanks

/cbadk
[About XDA developers] DavidinCT:
Agreed 100%, I can't come to this site from work any more if there will be adds with Audio playing as soon as you go to a page.

I understand you need ads to keep the server up and I have no problems and respect it but, auto playing videos when you enter a page, no way.

This needs to stop...last time I saw this practice was when I went to a "questionable" site and I expect that type of stuff from places like that, NOT XDA...
[About XDA developers] Jann F:
On the upper screen you can still see the previos site/thread I was on...

It just loaded that other site.

EDIT:

aaand another stupid, loud and self starting video...

EDIT2: aaand another one like the one above, but not even aligned to the ad-window, so I can't press pause...

You really want me to turn on my adblocker for XDA again?