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cabby john
 Post subject: Advertising?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:44 am 
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On TDO I have noticed a different shade of blue inserted into some of the different topics - if you hover over them it comes up as a form of advertising. Sooooo....are/is TDO going down the advertising route, annnnnd are we likely to be facing copious amounts of advertisements in our faces?

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 Post subject: Re: Advertising?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:40 pm 
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On TDO I have noticed a different shade of blue inserted into some of the different topics - if you hover over them it comes up as a form of advertising. Sooooo....are/is TDO going down the advertising route, annnnnd are we likely to be facing copious amounts of advertisements in our faces?


not on mine.... you may have a virus on your puter

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cabby john
 Post subject: Re: Advertising?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:53 pm 
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cabby john wrote:
On TDO I have noticed a different shade of blue inserted into some of the different topics - if you hover over them it comes up as a form of advertising. Sooooo....are/is TDO going down the advertising route, annnnnd are we likely to be facing copious amounts of advertisements in our faces?


not on mine.... you may have a virus on your puter


Ahhh....you could be right, it seems to have disappeared at the moment. It is/was for more pointed words such as "Cab,Route and the word Advertising" being displayed in a different colour "Blue" that you could click onto, which then came up with an advert to do with that product.

Now that you mention it......I have been having a few minor problems :roll:


Apologies to TDO.

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bloodnock
 Post subject: Re: Advertising?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:43 pm 
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I used to get that as well, I think I got rid of it using Adblock Plus which is free or malwarebytes also free.

https://adblockplus.org

https://www.malwarebytes.org/
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cabby john
 Post subject: Re: Advertising?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 6:24 pm 
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bloodnock wrote:
I used to get that as well, I think I got rid of it using Adblock Plus which is free or malwarebytes also free.

https://adblockplus.org

https://www.malwarebytes.org/


I will try those as it has come back.

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 Post subject: Re: Advertising?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 6:42 pm 
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cabby john wrote:
On TDO I have noticed a different shade of blue inserted into some of the different topics - if you hover over them it comes up as a form of advertising. Sooooo....are/is TDO going down the advertising route, annnnnd are we likely to be facing copious amounts of advertisements in our faces?

I pretty sure it would take a lot of money for the admin of TDO to place advertising on here, and if they ever did I'm sure it wouldn't be hidden adverts.

Maybe run a good virus check to see if things change. :wink:

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cabby john
 Post subject: Re: Advertising?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:27 am 
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bloodnock wrote:
I used to get that as well, I think I got rid of it using Adblock Plus which is free or malwarebytes also free.

https://adblockplus.org

https://www.malwarebytes.org/


I have tried both - still the same problem.

It is a similar "Blue" as when a link is posted in a forum post.

To clarify it: You/I post a reply, at different points it hones in a a word that is recognisable i.e it might be the word "Click" or even Wannas logo at the bottom of his page whereby it picks up on "Schizophrenia" and hi-lites it in "blue". A bit lost on this one.

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Chris the Fish
 Post subject: Re: Advertising?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:29 am 
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cabby john wrote:
To clarify it: You/I post a reply, at different points it hones in a a word that is recognisable i.e it might be the word "Click" or even Wannas logo at the bottom of his page whereby it picks up on "Schizophrenia" and hi-lites it in "blue". A bit lost on this one.

Yes, I'm in two minds about it as well! :badgrin:

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 Post subject: Re: Advertising?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:28 pm 
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google "microsoft malicious software removal tool"


its a free download

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 Post subject: Re: Advertising?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:33 pm 
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cabby john wrote:
bloodnock wrote:
I used to get that as well, I think I got rid of it using Adblock Plus which is free or malwarebytes also free.

https://adblockplus.org

https://www.malwarebytes.org/


I have tried both - still the same problem.

It is a similar "Blue" as when a link is posted in a forum post.

To clarify it: You/I post a reply, at different points it hones in a a word that is recognisable i.e it might be the word "Click" or even Wannas logo at the bottom of his page whereby it picks up on "Schizophrenia" and hi-lites it in "blue". A bit lost on this one.


hoho

it aint my PC thats infected.....PMSL

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 Post subject: Re: Advertising?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 2:16 pm 
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http://www.kundanstech.com/how-to-remove-random-words-highlighted-and-underlined-in-websites-which-are-links-to-an-adverts/
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cabby john
 Post subject: Re: Advertising?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 3:49 pm 
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bloodnock wrote:
http://www.kundanstech.com/how-to-remove-random-words-highlighted-and-underlined-in-websites-which-are-links-to-an-adverts/



Cheers me dear.........followed instructions and seems to be working...........So far :wink:

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cabby john wrote:
bloodnock wrote:
http://www.kundanstech.com/how-to-remove-random-words-highlighted-and-underlined-in-websites-which-are-links-to-an-adverts/



Cheers me dear.........followed instructions and seems to be working...........So far :wink:

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