Political Advs

[Radioguy41]

I don't mind advertisements, in fact I often find them interesting, but these constant Obama advs are really quite annoying. Politics really doesn't belong on a tech forum. Just my 2 cents. No offense intended, I'd say the same if it were McCain advs.

 

[meStevo]

Kinda agree, even as a democrat. You filter out the other ads that are against forum rules, and someone would get an 'infraction' if they had one of these ads in their sig and avatar.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Can someone grab a screenshot of these ads? Sounds like one is sneaking in and I want to send it to the ad agency to get it turned off.

 

[navychop]

What ads? I'm a pub member. Almost no ads.

I hate politics.

 

[meStevo]

What ads? I'm a pub member. Almost no ads.

I hate politics.

3rd reply, new record

 

[Radioguy41]

Can someone grab a screenshot of these ads? Sounds like one is sneaking in and I want to send it to the ad agency to get it turned off.

I've counted at least four different ones running, all signed "Paid for by the DNC". If I can I'll try to capture a screen.

 

[Radioguy41]

Haven't seen any in a couple of days so I'll assume they're gone.

Thank you. :up

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Glad to hear they are gone but I didn't do anything.

 

[Radioguy41]

WOW, what are the odds, not 1 minute after I posted the reply above one popped up. I have a screen capture of it. Where can I send it?

 

[Mr Tony]

shoot it to either Scott or myself

Scott's e-mail is his first name @ this site
Mine is my name @ this site

 

[Mr Tony]

Scott I've seen a big one when I log in from work. It gives me the guest page and the top 1/4 shows something like
"in Colorado you have to register by Oct 6 to vote"

or another one for Obama...cant remember what it says but at work they have the print screen option disabled so I cant screen shot it

 

[Radioguy41]

On it's way to you.

I get a similar one here about registering to vote in Pennsylvania by Oct 6th.

 

[Mr Tony]

funny as I'm in Minnesota and our HQ is in Florida and it says Colorado

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I just went through all the syndicated ads, there is one (that has a series of Obama ads) however it is turned off. Please send me a screen shot so I can send it to the ad company.

 

[Foxbat]

It least it's just political. Our corporate IT had to block the website for a newspaper in the NW Indiana region because they had viral advertising. Literally. People were picking up Trojan Downloaders when they visited their site which were caught by our corporate AV package.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I found the culprit and I am not happy about it.

The ad network Chitika is the one putting up these ads. Chitika is just supposed to show items for sales on common items that SatelliteGuys members would use, in addition it shows a search box which shows you the lowest price on that item.

It is NOT supposed to show any other ads and they are the ones putting up the Obama ads.

I just fired off a nasty email to Chitika and will be removing all of their ad code from our site today.

Below is what Chitika ads are supposed to look like. And those type of ads are all we are signed up for to serve from Chitika. They are inserting the Obama ads on their own.

 

[darrencp22]

Good job on this Scott. I never saw one, but if I did, I wouldnt have been a happy camper.

 

[themankind]

im lookin at a commercial loop of "Barack Obama's plan for America" on channel 73. seems like its been playin all day

 

[Radioguy41]

Thanks Scott.

 

[Radioguy41]

Scott, I just emailed another screen capture to iceberg. It just popped up.