Reality Check

So, are all these tedious links to fucking ads being embedded by Viglink going to be the norm around here now?

What a sad state of affairs.

I typed in samsung galaxy earlier and it links to an amazon ad.

i thought they were a virus, i got my computer savvy friend to get rid of them and he did, no idea how.

More than likely he installed AdBlock Plus on your browser. Do you use Firefox or Chrome? I didn't realise what you guys were talking about until I tested WATMM on IE. Ads. Ads everywhere. Very malware looking.

i see no ads whatsoever on neither firefox with adblock nor on IE10 without any addons, clean your internets people.

No ads here either.

yeah this isn't cool.

type amazon.

see the link?

*Skynet at WATMM joke*

AdBlock is the way to do it. If I run watmm on my iPad, then yeah, the ads are a bit much... I just try to ignore them...

Why am I getting a message that watmm needs Adobe Flash Player to be updated? It says it's blocked because it's out of date, and the message pops up every time I load a new page on watmm. Just curious which part of watmm uses flash, I guess.

  On 2/26/2013 at 3:29 PM, keltoi said:

yeah this isn't cool.

 

type amazon.

 

see the link?

no, not on ie and not on ff, this is some browser addon that does it.

wtf, I've been getting VigLink all day too, I thought I accidentally installed some malware...

oh, I see those now, in ie and in firefiox with adblock off.

i guess the ps4 announcement and viglinks on watmm are no coincidence..

There should really be a pinned thread about our new corporate overlords.

Or a thread about AdBlock.

  On 2/25/2013 at 8:14 PM, The Overlook said:

So, are all these tedious links to fucking ads being embedded by Viglink going to be the norm around here now?

 

What a sad state of affairs.

Just something I'm trying - I've resisted doing so since VigLink came out with them, just to see if they increase revenues any, which so far, there isn't any noticeable difference. I'll go ahead and turn them off since I never really liked them much to begin with.

And no, there was no coincidence - VigLink happened to reach out to me about the feature, and I decided to give it a go. If it's as invasive as you say (I see nothing on Chrome with AdBlock installed), then I don't want that gordoing up the forum either.

In other good news, the long-awaited patch for the quotes problem is finally out (with many other bugfixes) which I'll be applying today.

Yeah, not so much about being invasive but I keep thinking WATMMers might have linked something cool only to see when hovering that it's actually a link to E-Bay or some other shit.

Reality Shrek - Page 23

  On 2/26/2013 at 5:22 PM, The Overlook said:

Yeah, not so much about being invasive but I keep thinking WATMMers might have linked something cool only to see when hovering that it's actually a link to E-Bay or some other shit.

aye, i first noticed it when iainc mentioned the river amazon in some thread and i thought he had linked some info to back up what he was talking about, so i followed it to you know where.

  On 2/26/2013 at 5:43 PM, keltoi said:

 

  On 2/26/2013 at 5:22 PM, The Overlook said:

Yeah, not so much about being invasive but I keep thinking WATMMers might have linked something cool only to see when hovering that it's actually a link to E-Bay or some other shit.

 

aye, i first noticed it when iainc mentioned the river amazon in some thread and i thought he had linked some info to back up what he was talking about, so i followed it to you know where.

...and what'd you buy, Mr. Keltoi? Do tell!

Like I said, the feature has been turned off, so you shouldn't see it anymore - it might take a few refreshes of your browser's cache to clear any script injections the feature used.

Thanks, sugar plum!

  On 2/26/2013 at 5:44 PM, The Overlook said:

 

  On 2/26/2013 at 5:43 PM, keltoi said:

 

  On 2/26/2013 at 5:22 PM, The Overlook said:

Yeah, not so much about being invasive but I keep thinking WATMMers might have linked something cool only to see when hovering that it's actually a link to E-Bay or some other shit.

 

aye, i first noticed it when iainc mentioned the river amazon in some thread and i thought he had linked some info to back up what he was talking about, so i followed it to you know where.

...and what'd you buy, Mr. Keltoi? Do tell!

NO THING.

Forum updates are installed now - the quote bug, and hopefully others are finally behind us...

[youtubehd]xzGV9Bl6CGg[/youtubehd]