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Ads, ads, ads everywhere....
Yep, no kidding, the site has way too much advertisements, and it slows down the load times, with redirects, auto refreshes, forced ads (even with adblockers), and it seems the site is infected with that /g00 adware, which loads multiple ads (after the site loaded), tricking most adblockers (by opening a LOT of new subdomains) which cause long loading time even with a good internet connection, and your userscript (like the tf2op extension, or any kind of scripts) wont work... please, do something against these voilent advertisement:angry_creep:
Last edited by [G.M.M.]Anonymus; 10 Apr, 2017 @ 8:26am
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[G.M.M.]Anonymus 10 Apr, 2017 @ 8:30am 
So, little update on this: The mobile site is laggy as hell, i had to wait over a minute before I could bump my trade. I can't even imagine the loading time if I wanted to do a search...
And second thing, I made a test script, which runs at every opened page, to test how many redirects (or whatever these ads doing) get, and the results were meh[i.imgur.com]
So something is really-really wrong with it
hektikfrog 16 Apr, 2017 @ 9:58am 
i got on tf2op site after years, just to look at old trades, and i noticed i just cant fully load my profile anymore. website starts loading tf2op/user/#####, then switches to tf2op/g00/user/########?i10c.referrer=http etc.
google chrome seems to be affected by it, while internet explorer runs fine.
[G.M.M.]Anonymus 20 Apr, 2017 @ 12:26pm 
Nice find there, friend! I think this topic should have get more attention, because if we think it through, this method enables ads to be loaded from a third party site, regardelss your third party cookie policy, which means, it may lead to any kind of infection/data stealing by accessing your cookies
SkumleBones 4 May, 2017 @ 6:12pm 
i agree ads are getting bad, super intrusive ads opening up windows on there own when i dont even notice, then getting scam ads which are ones u cant exit out of until u do what it says to do, so u end up doing the ctrl alt del end task, and the ads lag the site super bad and also make it keep refreshing. For me in order for me to avoid this considering ad blocker doesnt work 80% on this website anymore, i have to exit it out fully and go bck in after a half hour or 2 just to keep track, i use to be able to just keep it up, nope, with these garbage ads i cant do that anymore
Thomas Magnum 25 May, 2017 @ 4:09am 
Too bad Outpost still has a lot of traders compared to Bazaar.tf since Bazaar is a way better trading sites in so much ways.

I started trading again now (last time was in January) and my experience with Outpost now is horrible. I takes me 1 minute just to be able to create a new trade since these adds make the performance terrible slow.

Just tell every trader you know that uses Outpost to go to Bazaar.tf and the issue will be fixed that way.
[G.M.M.]Anonymus 25 May, 2017 @ 6:50am 
Thank you for the reply!
Another update: it seems to affect only chromium based browsers (eg google chrome), so you can use the site with firefox fine (at least it's working for me)
LittleLlama 30 May, 2017 @ 6:18am 
yes i tottaly agree, way too many adds
Thulm 31 May, 2017 @ 12:58pm 
Utilize the "REPORT AD" button imbedded in the bottom-right corner of every ad, or submit a support ticket regarding any bad ads you might occur.

Alternatively you can also directly report them by emailing ads@zam.com with a screenshot or description of the ad in-question.
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