Rogue Advertising?
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I would say 98% of the advertising at the CodeProject is unobtrusive and offers high quality products that developers would be interested in. However, today I came across an ad (on the top right corner of screen) that I don't feel benefits the site or its users. The following image was linked at the top of the screen: http://c13.zedo.com/OzoDB/3/6/445709/V1/WarningShake_728x90.gif[^]. When I see advertising of this nature I automatically think viruses/spyware/adware/etc. I was wondering whether this type of advertising is really necessary on this site. All of the other 98% of advertising, I have no problems with.
Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my Blog
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I would say 98% of the advertising at the CodeProject is unobtrusive and offers high quality products that developers would be interested in. However, today I came across an ad (on the top right corner of screen) that I don't feel benefits the site or its users. The following image was linked at the top of the screen: http://c13.zedo.com/OzoDB/3/6/445709/V1/WarningShake_728x90.gif[^]. When I see advertising of this nature I automatically think viruses/spyware/adware/etc. I was wondering whether this type of advertising is really necessary on this site. All of the other 98% of advertising, I have no problems with.
Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my Blog
Thomas Stockwell wrote:
When I see advertising of this nature I automatically think viruses/spyware/adware/etc
Same here.
Thomas Stockwell wrote:
this type of advertising is really necessary on this site
I don't think it is. Just one of those ones I ignore. Many of the others have been of interest though.
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I would say 98% of the advertising at the CodeProject is unobtrusive and offers high quality products that developers would be interested in. However, today I came across an ad (on the top right corner of screen) that I don't feel benefits the site or its users. The following image was linked at the top of the screen: http://c13.zedo.com/OzoDB/3/6/445709/V1/WarningShake_728x90.gif[^]. When I see advertising of this nature I automatically think viruses/spyware/adware/etc. I was wondering whether this type of advertising is really necessary on this site. All of the other 98% of advertising, I have no problems with.
Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my Blog
WTF? There is no way - NO WAY - we would ever allow something like that on the site. Can you please send me a HTML dump of the page you saw that on? That's absolutely not acceptable. It's either (I'm hoping, but unlikely) something sneaking something into our pages on your end, or (hopefully not) a third party ad server we're using to fill inventory slipping in a rogue ad. I apologise from the bottom of my heart. We'll investigate and, if it's a problem our end, fix it. [Edit: I've gone through all the ads we run and I can't find that ad in our system. We've just managed to get some great advertisers such as RIM, Nokie and Orange, plus the old tried and true like Acresso, Dundas, Kinook etc but no "Dodgy Borthers Free Casino and Dating Service Advertising Ltd."]
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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WTF? There is no way - NO WAY - we would ever allow something like that on the site. Can you please send me a HTML dump of the page you saw that on? That's absolutely not acceptable. It's either (I'm hoping, but unlikely) something sneaking something into our pages on your end, or (hopefully not) a third party ad server we're using to fill inventory slipping in a rogue ad. I apologise from the bottom of my heart. We'll investigate and, if it's a problem our end, fix it. [Edit: I've gone through all the ads we run and I can't find that ad in our system. We've just managed to get some great advertisers such as RIM, Nokie and Orange, plus the old tried and true like Acresso, Dundas, Kinook etc but no "Dodgy Borthers Free Casino and Dating Service Advertising Ltd."]
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Unfortunately when I saw that ad, I was using a university computer (University of Michigan - Flint), and I have since moved my computing to a different location. So it is sort of hard to get the HTML dump for the page. However the basic url for that ad and where the ad went to were very similar. Despite the ad being very suspicious, the fact that it was advertised on the codeproject made me click once upon the ad. The webpage it led me to advertised a free laptop computer, and that is as far as I went before I posted my initial post here. I can, however, assure you that it wasn't a problem with the university's computers as they are re-imaged weekly and have strong anti-virus and anti-spyware applications (I work in the ITS dept. at the university). If their might be something that I could pull from the computer before it gets re-imaged again, just send me an email and I can try to help when I return to the university on Monday. [Edit:] Not sure if this helps, but the ad was shown around 4pm Michigan time and the ad appeared on the main page for the codeproject.com
Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my Blog
modified on Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:45 PM
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Unfortunately when I saw that ad, I was using a university computer (University of Michigan - Flint), and I have since moved my computing to a different location. So it is sort of hard to get the HTML dump for the page. However the basic url for that ad and where the ad went to were very similar. Despite the ad being very suspicious, the fact that it was advertised on the codeproject made me click once upon the ad. The webpage it led me to advertised a free laptop computer, and that is as far as I went before I posted my initial post here. I can, however, assure you that it wasn't a problem with the university's computers as they are re-imaged weekly and have strong anti-virus and anti-spyware applications (I work in the ITS dept. at the university). If their might be something that I could pull from the computer before it gets re-imaged again, just send me an email and I can try to help when I return to the university on Monday. [Edit:] Not sure if this helps, but the ad was shown around 4pm Michigan time and the ad appeared on the main page for the codeproject.com
Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my Blog
modified on Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:45 PM
Something wicked this way came, I reckon. Just keep an eye out for it happening again. When using the computers you can't right-click / View Source? If you can, then look for the /script/Adm/Server... bit, and note the ID that appears in the querystring. Maybe I missed something when I went through the ads but the guys in the office all know there would be a delivery of tar and feathers if ever an ad like that were allowed to go up.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Something wicked this way came, I reckon. Just keep an eye out for it happening again. When using the computers you can't right-click / View Source? If you can, then look for the /script/Adm/Server... bit, and note the ID that appears in the querystring. Maybe I missed something when I went through the ads but the guys in the office all know there would be a delivery of tar and feathers if ever an ad like that were allowed to go up.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I will be sure to keep an eye for it and if (when?) it happens I will grab the full source of the page and send it your way. Thanks for looking into it though :) .
Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my Blog
