Report Problems with Ads Here!
- Thread starter Advally
- Start date
Thanks Chris, the screenshot helped a lot. That page is a fake Apple warning, and you were right not to touch it. An ad sent your browser there. We've switched off the ad partner we think is behind it. If it happens again, please post the time and the web address shown in the bar, and we'll keep chasing it.
Chris __R
Well-Known Member
Attachments
Last edited:
Thanks Chris, and sorry it came back. So the partner we switched off wasn't the only source.
This morning we paused a second ad partner while we track down the rest. We'll post here when it's sorted.
If one still gets through, the time it happened is the most useful thing you can post, plus the web address at the top of the fake page if you can see it.
M70AB2
Well-Known Member
Just got this too! Please fix this. Seriously. Enough already.
Chris __R
Well-Known Member
Did you happen to take a screen shot? This will help the diagnose the issue.
M70AB2
Well-Known Member
I did not. I just thought, what the heck? and closed it out.
axel340band
Well-Known Member
Vehicle Inventory Locator
Find your next Mercedes-Benz using our inventory locator. Type in your town or zip code to browse luxury vehicles at a Mercedes-Benz dealership near you.
This thread, at 3:48 on 10/23/26. This ad filled the screen and linked to the Mercedes Benz link above. Could not close the ad as it took over the entire screen. Clicking on the Audiokarma section in the middle went to the link above.
axel340band
Well-Known Member
Did anyone ever think that maybe if all of these problems are occurring with such regularity, that it might be best just to go with a different ad-support partner? This site is becoming unusable, yet it worked fine for 20+ years before this company came in and made it terrible. Maybe, just maybe, it was a mistake that should be owned up to. If people are being diverted to obvious phishing and malware sites, the question becomes, why does Advally contract with these "advertisers" in the first place. Shutting them off isn't the problem, they should never have been turned on in the first place. I may have to take a break until this gets better, which is a real shame as this site has always been quite therapeutic for me.
axel340band, thanks for the report and the screenshot, and sorry. That full-screen ad came from a format on our side: a between-pages ad we thought we had switched off in September. It was still running for visitors who aren't signed in. It's off as of today, 24 October. The Mercedes ad itself was an ordinary Google ad. The problem was the format it ran in.
M70AB2, sorry this sat unanswered for a week. The address in your screenshots (torixa.life) helped. The stricter protection is back on as of today and runs until Tuesday, and we've paused the ad partner that shows up most in our reports. We haven't confirmed that's the whole cause, so we're not calling it fixed yet.
If either problem comes back, please post the time and the page here. We look at this thread every day.
This ad is still running as of Saturday 2:14pm.
I have found that unless I click to log in within the first 5 seconds, the page will fill in with the Mercedes ads. Also when I click on the center "Audiokarma.org" page, it still takes me to a Mercedes ad. I have to close page and come back to log in.
I have found that unless I click to log in within the first 5 seconds, the page will fill in with the Mercedes ads. Also when I click on the center "Audiokarma.org" page, it still takes me to a Mercedes ad. I have to close page and come back to log in.
Ms Grumpy, thank you, and you were right. Switching off our full-screen format this morning did not stop this ad, so our earlier post was wrong about that. Sorry.
We have not confirmed where the Mercedes takeover comes from yet. As a precaution, we switched off one ad partner whose Mercedes ads ran on the site, at 6:20pm Eastern today. A page you already had open may still show the old ads until you reload.
If the Mercedes takeover appears again, please post the time and the page here.
axel340band
Well-Known Member
This is exactly the problem I was having.
axel340band
Well-Known Member
The fact that the ad company doesn't know where its own ads come from isn't a great look.
The ad company goes through the files that are sent to them from the advertisers. Like with anything else, there may be corrections on both sides. And sometimes the advertiser does things that it should not do and that is where we run into the problem.
Like other things in this world, we think that someone cannot hack into our systems, but they do. I have talked with other site owners and no matter who you use, there are going to be problems. The members only see the site, if you saw all the work behind the scenes 24/7 you might have a different view. I know that I have come to appreciate a lot of the behind the scenes work that is going on everyday. AK may not be perfect everyday, but what family is ?
I will add to your post by also including all the Administrators and Moderators.Thank you Mrs Grumpy, the work you and all the others behind the scenes do to maintain and improve members AK experience is very much appreciated.
Last edited:
