Dodgy adverts - please report here

Scribble Live is the tool which powers the live coverage - I presume you've been on the page with the live coverage of the final day of the Barcelona test?

If you've got any more info about what Kaspersky is telling you (or a screenshot), could you share that with me so that I can ask our developers to look into this?

Edited by milestone 11, 09 April 2018 - 21:48.

Not sure it's a dodgy advert, as Malwarebytes is blocking content - but this only started happening today

For the last few months I've been experiencing an intermittent problem with 'expanding' ads on my mobile (Safari on iPhone6, in the UK). If there are sufficient posts between the ad and the reply box the effect is minimal as the ad stays behind the posts, which can still be read:



If, however, the ad is close to the reply box, its expansion covers the reply box and makes it very difficult to type a reply:



As I said, the ad expansion is intermittent - I'd say it happens around 50% of the time - and quite often causes no problem as the reply box is still accessible. It is very frustrating, though, when the reply box does get covered.

Edited by Zmeej, 09 April 2018 - 05:55.

I've just had an add try to redirect me.

http://forums.autosp...us-to-help-you/

They don't cause technical problems that I can tell, but "Asia Charm" ads for "girls" and "lots of gorgeous woman" ... really?

I mean, really?

Or has someone hacked Autosport's Toronto-area ad server?

LMAO, I posted the same about some airplane dude's pic's in PC. People do complain a lot about of their own wrong doing. 

Edited by YoungGun, 09 April 2018 - 23:24.

Joking about targeting aside, these sort of ads should never appear on Autosport.

If you're seeing them, please could you send me a screenshot and (if you don't mind clicking on them), the URL which you're being sent through to?

Z, have you ever clicked on an image posted in a forum? If you have, then depending on how it was linked it either pops up a higher resolution image or takes you to the link site. That was the case with some airplane images posted in that forum.

Edited by YoungGun, 10 April 2018 - 17:14.

Different how? Is Grayson supposed to police against that too? 

I can't visit the forums by phone anymore. I get this pop up adverts saying I won a phone or whatever, sometimes the phone buzzes and sometimes not. But I have to force quit and clear the cache. It happens both with chrome and Samsung's own, and it only happens on this site.

I only had Autosport open when I got a red screen telling me I had a problem with Chrome. It seems to be a currently active malware (something *.win).

My antivirus just flashed a threat linked to exchangeinterface.global.ssl.fastly.net (infected by JS:ScriptIP-inf (Trj). It's a Trojan Horse.

This was while loading the Toro Rosso topic on Racing Comments.

Edited by FLB, 29 April 2018 - 11:34.

Edited by johnmhinds, 15 May 2018 - 05:58.

Thanks.

We've made a couple of changes this morning which it looks like we might need to reverse...

Thanks Tim - that's very thorough so I hope that's enough info for our ad tech team to identify the malicious ad provider who is letting these slip through!

Apologies again that we're doing such a slow job of stamping these out.

I'm getting the same as Tim; same redirects; both on Firefox and Safari on iOS, iPhone 6S.

I was just about to post that I’ve been experiencing them regularly since I posted the screenshots above, probably half a dozen times each day, but before I could start typing, lo and behold, another one popped up.

Same here. Annoying as hell and basically makes the forum unreadable.

Same, just now. 

Something from cpafireboost to orgeles-hantests to mediatrackapi to server3.cybertoothtiger.info

The pop up ads have gotten way out of hand, and I’m going to have to take a break from the forum because I can’t handle it anymore

I can’t browse a page for more than 10 seconds without being treated to a pop up ad that forcibly redirects me to another site claiming I have been selected to win a $1000 Amazon.com gift card. Pressing the ‘back’ button removes the pop-up only for a more aggressive redirect to occur. They escalate from offering a ‘special gift’, to offering a free iPhone or Samsung Galaxy, to then offering a service titled ‘Local Sex Finder’, a page offering ‘women looking for long-term relationships’, and finally a page titled ‘Well Hello’ asking me to select from three pictures of women’s exposed breasts and genitals. The last is from the following link:

http://congratulatio...=0&rwidth=0&e=4

I’ve had enough. I thought Autosport had more class than this but clearly not. Selling your integrity is not a sustainable strategy.

I have ad-envy. Mine are nowhere near as exotic as yours

I’ve had enough. I thought Autosport had more class than this but clearly not. Selling your integrity is not a sustainable strategy.

Our ads guys have promised me that they're working on this today.

We're only serving ads through the big exchanges which are supposed to be reliable (including Google, but also companies like Rubicon and Pubmatic who aren't household names). The problem seems to be that scammers and fraudsters are tricking their way onto the schedule of the big ad networks. By the time they're caught (and removed) you guys have already seen them multiple times.

The ones that were getting through on the weekend should all have been blocked. Can you let me know if you see any more? We're looking for a permanent solution to this rather than playing whack-a-mole with these all of the time...

Our ads guys have promised me that they're working on this today.

We're only serving ads through the big exchanges which are supposed to be reliable (including Google, but also companies like Rubicon and Pubmatic who aren't household names). The problem seems to be that scammers and fraudsters are tricking their way onto the schedule of the big ad networks. By the time they're caught (and removed) you guys have already seen them multiple times.

The ones that were getting through on the weekend should all have been blocked. Can you let me know if you see any more? We're looking for a permanent solution to this rather than playing whack-a-mole with these all of the time...

Still no respite:



from this URL:

https://eu.whitegift...3NpdGVkb21haW59

Edited by jonpollak, 30 August 2018 - 22:22.

Thanks Jon.

Which country were you in when you saw that?

Edited by Afterburner, 14 September 2018 - 00:58.

My gripe is not one of annoying adverts, but the fact that subscription to Autosport Plus is supposed to remove advertising. Instead, what I've got is an Autosport Plus only advert in disguise as an article.

https://www.autospor...omas-cook-sport

This is an advert for Thomas Cook, and a very cynical way to take advertising to the subscribers who pay to not get advertising.

Poor job guys! Either give content free to everybody with adverts, or do as you claim and take a subscription which removes ALL advertising.