Advertisements On Phoronix

[chithanh]

hope to have it solved soon.

So what is the status on this? I now get an autoplay video ad which is more than 1/3 height of the page, covers content and follows around when scrolling.

Sometimes I wonder how anybody who is less tolerant of such annoying ads can still visit Phoronix without an ad blocker.

[Michael]

Ah, yes, this ad. I'd been browsing Phoronix with the adblocker turned off, but after seeing this movie window that follows everywhere as I scroll it's back on again. Sorry, I want to support Phoronix, but this is too much.

Currently working on tracking it down to see how it shows up but so far haven't figured out which ad unit it's getting injected from, hope to have it solved soon.

[dammarin]

Ah, yes, this ad. I'd been browsing Phoronix with the adblocker turned off, but after seeing this movie window that follows everywhere as I scroll it's back on again. Sorry, I want to support Phoronix, but this is too much.

[chithanh]

(This is a continuation from the FOSDEM 2018 thread)

Unfortunately without the ad it's next to impossible to track down since I don't know what ad network it comes from and let alone the domain to ultimately block. In this case it's Tribal Fusion which is the ad network but unfortunately that ad URL seems to be a generic one not indicating the underlying ad.

Will try blocking skiamade.com with Tribal to see if that fixes it.

The particular ad no longer displays, however it was replaced by an equally obnoxious ad at the same position.



This is the code which was apparently inserted to display the ad:

<div id="gridDiv_20ca1c66-ad75-2520-dc78-c0601e220ad5" style="position: absolute; z-index: 10; width: 1640px; height: 842px; clip: rect(296px, 970px, 546px, 670px); left: -670px; top: -296px;"><div id="wrapperDiv_20ca1c66-ad75-2520-dc78-c0601e220ad5" style="position: absolute; z-index: 10; width: 300px; height: 250px; top: 296px; left: 670px; opacity: 0;"></div><iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" hspace="0" vspace="0" id="appsnack_teaser_iframe_20ca1c66-ad75-2520-dc78-c0601e220ad5" src="https://cdnx.tribalfusion.com/media/7659526/creative1.html?namejs=https://cdnx.tribalfusion.com/media/common/richmedia/html5/3.7.4-0/js/creative.js&amp;namecss=https://cdnx.tribalfusion.com/media/common/richmedia/html5/3.7.4-0/css/creative.css&amp;rnd=20ca1c66-ad75-2520-dc78-c0601e220ad5" allowfullscreen="true" style="background-color: white; width: 970px; height: 546px; left: 670px; top: 296px; position: absolute;" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="tfac_300250214484099" style="position: relative; z-index: 1005000; width: 300px;"><script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnx.tribalfusion.com/media/common/adChoice/tf_adChoice11.js"></script><div style="text-align: left; height: 15px; left: 281px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 19px; z-index: 1005000;"><img style="margin:0;position:absolute;left:0px; display:block;" src="https://cdnx.tribalfusion.com/media/common//adChoice/icon/ad_choices_i_UR.png" onmouseover="tf_e9AdChoice.expand(this,300,281);" border="0" width="19px" height="15px"><a href="https://s.tribalfusion.com/j.u?rnd=214484099&amp;redirect=http://exponential.com/ad-choices-fromad/" target="_blank"><img style="margin:0;position:absolute;display:none;" src="https://cdnx.tribalfusion.com/media/common//adChoice/icon/ad_choices_UR.png" onmouseout="tf_e9AdChoice.collapsed(this,300,281);" border="0" width="77px" height="15px"></a></div></div>

[mangojuice]

Hi, can you delete this
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/foru...based-pi-board

[chithanh]

Ugh. The ad situation has progressively gotten more annoying. There are now 5 visible ads in the forums:

• partially overlapping each other
• two of them are identical (center, bottom center)
• two of them are floating (top left corner, bottom center), and one floating ad (top left) cannot be dismissed
• three of them are animated (top left, center, bottom center)
• with only having this page open, Firefox uses around 20% of one CPU core for itself, and 100% of one CPU core for "Web Content"

[Michael]

All ads now blocked on android.

phoronix install hbpix, a browser hijacker to pump up more ads and crap.

We don't install anything, not even familiar with this hbpix you mention. If you have any URLs you can provide of how it's being loaded or whatever, can look to get it blocked from ad networks.

[RavFX]

All ads now blocked on android.

phoronix install hbpix, a browser hijacker to pump up more ads and crap.

[Michael]

I normally whitelist this site, but recently your ads provider has started delivering potentially malicious payloads: https://i.imgur.com/qC0WS53.png

I observed this behaviour on both mobile and desktop.

Do you happen to know on what parrticular pages or from what ad? If you can provide anymore information can get it blacklisted. I can try the idpix.media6degrees blacklisting but unknown if that's the actual URL of the ad, probably not as would be too easy to track down the rogue ad that way.

[Aeder]

I normally whitelist this site, but recently your ads provider has started delivering potentially malicious payloads: https://i.imgur.com/qC0WS53.png

I observed this behaviour on both mobile and desktop.