Posted on: 10/19/17 10:59AM
doopaboop said:
Have you tried going to "My Account", then "Options", and clicking on banner ads as your selected ad type? I did that a long time ago and haven't seen a pop-up ad in forever.
Also seriously? Anytime somebody brings up the topic of ads the entire forum decides to post non-sense about food recipes? I get it, there are a lot of threads that are nothing but complaining, but this is about redirect ads that can be dangerous and isn't just somebody saying "Remove all ads or I'll tell my mom" or some shit. The least you could of done is let them know that there is a way to disable them.
That's using your noodle.
On a more serious note:
Pasta is amazing! The idea that half of our pop-up banners are malicious is probably based on the user's experience with other sites. We don't allow truly malicious ads like that to be used on our users. The most they might do is try to get your attention. If something like that comes up then the specific ad needs to be brought to the admins attention so we can let our ad distributor know.
As a matter of personal preference I have banner ads turned off in my account options and get served only one pop-under twice a day. This has been the case for years now. More recently I have had some pop-under ads that had annoying sound to them (play our game!) but I haven't had any malware from this site EVER. I'm pretty confidant that if Gelbooru ads were doing something to my computer that they shouldn't then my PC Pitstop PC-matic would spot it. I also have Life-Lock. My computer and the personal data inside of it are insured for a million dollars. If Gelbooru pop-under ads were doing something to my computer I think I would know it.
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Edit:
Hey look! I just now got a pop-under with sound/music. It's Utaku Crush Crush Moist and Uncensored.
www.nutaku.net/games/crus...kucf6rcRDtSFHUHQsSCA5aR5IOkay, a little annoying but otherwise harmless.