Problems with site.

[BUCKinFL]

First, I cannot use your site with my phone. I refuse to deal with the forced redirects. Not only are they annoying, they make it as difficult as possible to simply get back to the page I was viewing. For instance, I am viewing a mod, and suddenly I am redirected. But I can't just hit the back button. This is disabled, somewhat. You must hit it repeatedly, and quickly to override the block, but this will always make you go back one page too far and the page now is no longer accessible without going the long way to get there. In other words, you are now back on the first tab you were on, and have to redo the action to bring the page back up in another tab. But all that is going to do is cause you to be redirected again. I know because it has happened multiple times. I simply chose to stop visiting the site on my mobile.

 

 

Second, on my laptop, or desktop, I have to deal with autorun video ads, even though I am a premium member? If there is a way to stop this, I want to know how, because when I click on the "remove these ads" link, it takes me to a page to become a premium member. What is most annoying about these ads is that they seem to make my computer suddenly start stuttering. Even now, as I write, the words don't appear, but then a whole sentence will appear. To make this stop, I will now have to long out of my browser, and not return to this site. There is something very aggressive about this site.

 

 

Please fix these issues, as I do love the site, and use it a lot.

[Ethreon]

Since you're premium, and therefore not subject to ads, only logical solution is that your PC is infected. Whether you have an AV or not doesn't matter much since it happened. Try to get it cleaned.

[Dark0ne]

If you are seeing ads when you're logged in then it's not us and your system is more than likely infected with adware or malware, as Ethreon said.

[BUCKinFL]

If you are seeing ads when you're logged in then it's not us and your system is more than likely infected with adware or malware, as Ethreon said.

 

OK, going to have to reinstall windows, do a reset, because my AV is not finding anything.

 

What about the redirects? I was reading up on that it says that this is not actually your fault, but the fault of advertisers who pay you to advertise on your site. However, it does say that the only recourse is for site owners to take action with the advertisers.

[JimboUK]

Where are you getting redirected on your phone? if you're logged in then advertisers wouldn't be able to redirect you because their ads aren't shown. I was browsing this morning on mine (Chrome on Android) and it was working fine.

[bben46]

Some of the crap programs that do redirects or hijack browsers are not considered malware by many of the AV companies - I suppose they are being paid off or something.

One of the absolute worst is called conduit - it hijacks your browser and hides itself. Many AV programs don't get rid of it, and for some of those that do, it comes back because of multiple disguised registry entries.

I don't know why the light ad companies haven't sued them or done something to stop them as they are stealing from the ad companies, and the payment for the ads is not given to the sites, but goes in the pocket of the scammers.

 

The best program I have found for getting rid of conduit and it's clones as well as those nuisance toolbars that like to sneak in with FREE downloads is called JRT ( Junkware Removal Tool) it's FREE ( really free with n garbage attached) and owned by MalwareBytes, so you know it's ligit. Here is a link: https://www.malwarebytes.org/junkwareremovaltool/