WTF with the new pop-out ad on the forum? [likely solved]

[PranQster]

This little bastard is fucking annoying. Do we really need an ad popping out from the side of the page every couple minutes???

 

This seems to be new behavior with Google Chrome (in Linux). I have never seen a pop-out ad on the right-hand side of the screen in Chrome before. This only happened just tonight on the TDM forums, but now I see the same ad pop-out on other pages.

 

OK. The only thing new was my trying "AdBlock Super". Adblock plus and regular adblock have both been used for many months. But the 'super' version was new to me last week. After disabling that bastard I have no more pop-out ads.

Edited March 29, 2015 by PranQster

[SteveL]

Just to confirm, I don't see any ads on this site. I access it using both Firefox and chrome.

[Bikerdude]

same here.

 

@Pranqster what ever you getting is nothing to do with the forum.

 

Im running ad block software, so I might be blocking it. But ran FF in safe mode and still nothing.

[Baal]

I've seen one too, earlier. But it's gone now.

[Bikerdude]

I've seen one too, earlier. But it's gone now.

Can you get a screenshot..?

[Baal]

If it happens again.

[PranQster]

It appears to have been related to the Chrome extension, "Adblock Super", which I had added to Chrome earlier in the week. After removing it and sticking with regular adblock, the popup ad went away.

I just looked on Google app store and that "Adblock Super" extension is no longer listed when searching "adblock", just the regular, plus, and pro versions. I can still get to the extension installer if I search "Adblock Super", including quotes, in google.

 

This forum just happened to be the first page I was browsing when that advert appeared. Ironically, Adblock regular and Adblock Plus did not see it as an ad. So I assume it was an advert built-in to "Adblock Super" itself.

Edited March 29, 2015 by PranQster