Download icon

[spinnaker]

Is anyone else seeing the Download icon at the top of the forum pages?

This seems to be appearing on the download thread and already bite me once after a late night install. I am seeing this image more and more over the internet and appears to be coming from Google. It is very misleading and it is disgusting that Google would want this kind of business.

Is there anyway to block this ad on the forum

[sub]

I've never seen that particular one, but I've certainly seen some tricky ads from google in the past.

Unfortunately Google ad revenue is pretty much the only thing that keeps this project solvent. If you can tell me the host that ad leads to, I can block that specific site though.

[spinnaker]

I am not seeing any ads on this PC but I have adblock installed for Firefox. I am guessing my media center pc does not have adblock. I will also see if Sybot is loaded to make sure I don't have some malware or something.

And I will post the link from my media center pc next time I see it but time for sleep now.

[mvallevand]

I see that one all the time, it was just on the screen here

Code:

http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=...&adurl=http://www.downloadedia.com/browsersafeguard%3Fcreative_id%3Db%26source%3Dgoogle_bsg-display-ca-728x90-30588245435%26subid%3Dsoftware%26subid2%3Dforums.gbpvr.com&nm=6....

Martin

[sub]

Ok, I've added that to the blocked urls lists.

Most of the ads I see are NZ specific.

[mvallevand]

Here's another that looks like this

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/sim...3092126502

Code:

&adurl=http://www.adoft.com/ads/mindspark/videog.php

Martin

[sub]

Ok, added that one too.

Just starting to wonder if I'll see my click through rates drop though, leading to smaller adsense payments each month

[mvallevand]

My suggestion would be to not blacklist on the forums, and only make the download available via http://www.nextpvr.com.

Martin

[spinnaker]

My suggestion would be to not blacklist on the forums, and only make the download available via http://www.nextpvr.com.

Martin

Well the problem really rests with Google. This is an unscrupulous practice imho. Google should not accept these ads in the first place.

I am for black listing on the forum and on the site But I am also for making download available on the site. I can see why the forum was chosen. Might make it just a little easier to add download updates.

Thanks to everyone for pitching in so quickly.

[mvallevand]

This thread could go on forever,

This icon http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/sim...8877573339 for this ad

&adurl=http://installl.com/d/

Martin