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I don't have any tech savvy so I may not be wording things correctly, but I'll stick with relating my experiences and see if anyone here (potentially even siterunners) has a comment.
So there's a particular site I'd visited for years. Within the last few months it began displaying a pop-up ad so aggressive I stopped going there. Once I checked it out a week or so back on a library PC, I got a new pop up reading. "Ad Blocker Detected. To Support This Site Disable Ad Blocker." That seemed to prove to me that the runners of that particular site were working hand in glove with the makers of the pop ups.
Then, on a whim I checked it out on my personal PC yesterday. No pop ups. I visited for over an hour and no intrusions. Then I checked it out again this morning, and here's the regular pop up again.
I can imagine a scenario in which the siterunner techs keep trying to scrape these stupid things off their sites like so many barnacles, but the makers keep sending them back in. That might explain why the ads were gone one day and back the next. Any ideas?
So there's a particular site I'd visited for years. Within the last few months it began displaying a pop-up ad so aggressive I stopped going there. Once I checked it out a week or so back on a library PC, I got a new pop up reading. "Ad Blocker Detected. To Support This Site Disable Ad Blocker." That seemed to prove to me that the runners of that particular site were working hand in glove with the makers of the pop ups.
Then, on a whim I checked it out on my personal PC yesterday. No pop ups. I visited for over an hour and no intrusions. Then I checked it out again this morning, and here's the regular pop up again.
I can imagine a scenario in which the siterunner techs keep trying to scrape these stupid things off their sites like so many barnacles, but the makers keep sending them back in. That might explain why the ads were gone one day and back the next. Any ideas?