Originally posted by Sneeza™:

This is actually the third time we're switching providers because they haven't been able to give us clean ads. It's a stupid problem that shouldn't be happening but I guess they have no review process to ensure ads aren't malicious.

Damn, reminds me of the recent yahoo ad problem where a ton of people got their computers infected because a pretty nasty malware program got through yahoo's pisspoor advertisement quality control.

They really should just limit ads to either animated or static images with a link when clicked, all these fancy video ads, scripted ads that enlarge when hovered over, and sound advertisements are getting a bit much.

Luckily I use adblock in firefox with noscript which nukes them all, but if everyone uses adblock, what funding do free websites get? :/

Originally posted by Sneeza™:

We're transitioning to another new ad provider soon apparently because of the issues we've been getting with the current one. I don't have an ETA but I'm pretty sure within 2 weeks.

Good to know, I did previously have the 6 month premium from my leftover donator when it swapped from donating to premium, but sadly it ended in march. So when I started getting ads again I noticed it wasn't exactly normal ads being served sadly.

Nah, remarkit tends to be more of your own computer being infected and then it forces your browser open and asks you to install other stuff, my computer is a-ok, on that front, no viruses, malware, adware etc. This is one being pushed via whoever provides tf2outpost's adverts.

Originally posted by Lavender TradeOfferOnly:

Do the ads show the company? Is it remarkit?

Unfortunately no, what would be the advert spot to see who's providing it is instead just a plain black box with no hover url visible, the only visible url is as I've said above, it just redirects to a random obvious phishing/spam url if you manage to get one of the redirect adverts.

No, it's just the 3 defined adverts, 2 to the right side, and 1 at the bottom, occasionally one of them loads that redirect script to force your browser into a fake flash/java update page (not a popup, just a pure browser page change, to get you to download alsorts of random viral stuff, which luckily can't be done at all in the steam overlay.

The fake pages themselves show the url as something like "depotobiy" and other random obvious phishing/viral urls.

I tend to use the steam overlay browser for ease of use with the tf2op site as it allows for easy login, doing trades and such without needing to alt tab, lately however I have noticed the adverts served by whoever provides the ads on the tf2op site have been getting rather dangerous, luckily valve has removed most applets that can damage your computer, such as java within steam's own browser, and I'm no idiot when it comes to computer security anyway.

However it's been getting worse with regards to redirection adverts that just force you onto a fake adobe, or oracle page asking you to "update your flash/java as it's "out of date" and the site "needs" it to run and trying to get you to download virus exes and the like, which luckily you can't do inside the steam browser overlay.

I thought it'd definitely be worth reporting this, as whoever is providing the site adverts is shady as fuck and it's been getting worse.