Change of Ad Provider

[sandaker]

This is one of the few sites I felt guilty for using my adblocker on. I disabled it only to be hit with a barrage of act nows. so I gave them a couple of my septimus'. I feel better now.

[xPsykes]

Even if the staff were next door they could be getting different ads served. That is what targeted ads means. I live on The US east coast, but not in the same area. As an older male, I would expect more Viagra, drug and cruise ship advertising and less game and movie advertising than someone in the teens or twenties. Age and sex are two of the big targeting factors. If you visit porn sites, then you will likely get more porn ads as they track where you go also. If you look at cars, you will get more car ads. If you look at movie sites you will get movie ads.

 

And if you cannot use the report, HOW are we supposed to know anything about the ads that only you and a very few others seem to be seeing?

BTW, we have many other members living in the same region as your IP shows and using TWC as their provider. Probably thousands as it is a heavily populated area. I haven't seen any other complaints that match yours from that region. And no other reports of ads blocking the report button. :psyduck:

 

You are not seeing the ads from the Ad provider that Nexus uses. But ads from some other provider that is replacing them. This is called hijacking and can be done at several places in the chain. But most of the time it will be something you downloaded inadvertently not knowing that it would hijack the ads. JRT removes a lot of these, but like any security program it is not perfect. When you run JRT you should get a report telling what it found, what it removed - AND what it found that it was not able to remove.

Ad-Aware is another good malware remover, but it will take a lot longer to run

Spybot-Search and Destroy is another that I have used in the past

SuperAntiSpyware is another that is very popular

Try them all. One may find something that another one doesn't.

 

The kind of places I have found that put a hijacker on your computer are:

FREE game sites that have a lot of kid games. Especially those that require you do install their proprietary installer to play the games.

Coupon sites

Porn sites

social media such as Facebook (Usually in links to some video or opening a chain letter post) FB also sells your personal info to the ad companies.

Some music download sites

And even some ligit sites that have themselves been hijacked.

 

Most ad blockers do have a function to identify the ads they are blocking. Blocking ads does not stop them from tracking you. But there are browser add ons that can do that also.

All I can keep saying is that others have seen this problem before in the past and recently, Also I don't use this computer to go do anything malicious the first time I experienced this was when I got my new computer and it startled me, I've not gone to anything malicious before seeing this problem nor have I after the only thing JRT tried or did remove was My Bitdefender Free Edition installer (I went to the official site to download this)

 

All I can add to the matter is that maybe if this is still a problem on your site that this can be fixed, cause I can't think of anything else that could be on my end

[Michaelf151]

To Nexus admins and the Dark0ne especially:

 

I totally appreciate your zest and intent to keep us users and also the dev teams, safer in our interactions here. I am still a newbie of only a year or so, but I am in Love with Skyrim and I would not have started modding my game if it were not for you guys!

 

Please continue to fight for your rights and service level commitments to your patrons. A lot of companies don't give a flip about the little guys and will not police their own bandwidth and when you are trying to download a big mod pack, and the ads come in a confuse the S#%@ out of the users and not to mention the bandwidth it steals with some of those "auto-launching" ads are.. well I just walked away a few times from my computer and restarted the download the next day!!

 

Thanks again and I plan to be here for a long time. Lets hope that we " can all..just get along...?" !

 

Cheers,

 

Michael

 

[Suncatcher]

Oh hey, good to hear it! I hated taking revenue from you guys by using adblocker here, but the site was just unusable with the advertising displayed before.

[Sertith]

After reading this for the last few weeks on the main page, I decided to actually click on it. Mainly, I thought (for some crazy reason), that this meant there weren't going to be horrendous ads anymore. There's more ads than content anymore. The background gets totally taken up by ads. It's awful.

 

I've gone ahead and signed up for Premium, just so I don't have to have ads. Congrats.

Edited June 15, 2016 by Sertith

[DivineHeresy]

tell you the truth i never liked using adblock on the nexus due to being a supporter of what you all have done for modding but once i started getting nailed so bad i could't download mods for my games anymore and had i still been modding i would of been unable to continue due to the ad's that auto redirect and attempt to plant virus's (15 attempts to implant trojan) i had to enable the nexus for my ad blocker and see the sadface icon appear, if this situation is corrected i will disable it again for the nexus and someday just donate for no ad nexus access when i have spare $

[adminstaff]

I dont think I was ever affected by this, ads never bothered me for the past year..

[Engard323]

I was one of the people that had trouble with the adds. I Just now noticed that this update was put out to us and I want to thank you for fixing the problem, it makes it so much easier to use the site now that adds no longer hijack the page. Honestly thank you for fixing the problem it means a lot to know that you care so much about the happiness of those you provide service too. :)

[hyp3rstrike]

I paid for a lifetime membership a while ago. Hasn't been an issue here.

[BanditSE1977]

In response to post #39248450.

etteerr wrote: Unfortunately, all the ads today are dynamic and animated. on a quad 3.8GHz, just enabling ads in this very page flings up the cpu usage across all cores from 0-2% to 20-60% (firefox). i keep em blocked... since i usually have quite alot of tabs open and i dont want 100% cpu all the time for just browsing the web :(

I have this problem to.I have an older i2700k and have a ADSL 2 connection that operates up to 1meg a second,but if I do my usual thing of browsing files to look at,and opening ones I want to look at in new tabs to look at several at a time,the site becomes basically unresponsive.Whatever the ads are takes a lot of power to run them.

I just tried this twice:This page open,then open the Skyrim mods page,then open to the first 2 mods on the hot files.So I have 4 Nexus tabs open,nothing else.

With Adblock Off to show ads:open links,so 4 nexus tabs,browser takes a minute or so to load all the ads,while this is happening the browser is intermittently unresponsive.Once the ads are loaded,the pages are still hard to use and unresponsive as they keep downloading ad info every 20 seconds or so and using CPU.Also just to close the pages takes a while as you are waiting for the pages to respond to what you want them to do.

With Adblock On to block ads:,open links,so 4 nexus tabs,browser loads all the pages in short order.Can click through all 4 tabs no problem and use them smoothly.

I do intend on paying for as a supporter or member at some stage,but if you want to make the ads less annoying to people then they need to be very basic so they aren't chewing power and downloads. Edited June 20, 2016 by BanditSE1977