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Possible soft po** links

Ayce

Ayce

Aug 8, 2011
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Saint John, NB, Canada
#1
Every time I read a thread, no matter what forum, when I hit the back button, it goes nowhere. If I hold the button for a second, to review browsing history, I see a link to
"webcam bait||free pictures" or cams or something along those lines. Only happens on this site, and just seems to have started today. Just to let you know, somethings up. Using IE 9.
 
#2
This is a result of a bad banner campaign that Google Adsense is sending through. What happens is, you visit e-commerce site A. Site A then stores a cookie on your computer (that says "Ayce just looked at Widgets on our site"). The next day you visit TalkBass, and Site A's banner campaign is set to deliver an ad. But first, the banner calls a 3rd party service (such as tellapart.com etc) which loads your cookie data showing you looked at Widgets without buying (and your browser loads that extra 'page'). They then send you a banner based on the Widgets you looked at the other day to try and get you back to buy.

This is why when you visit a site to look at Widgets, somehow mysteriously the next day you start seeing ads for Widgets on the sites you visit.

I've taken down the culprit campaign by blocking it on Google Adsense. I've also changed a setting that should prevent this from happening in the future. You should not have this issue tomorrow.
 
#3
I'm glad that this has been reported already, because I was just about to if it hadn't. I'm seeing the same "Webcam Bait // Home of Sexy cam girl" link as well when hitting the back button.

Should I be concerned that this could infect my computer while browsing the TB site?

TD
 
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