Exploding Ads - Please Report!

[Attebery]

We've reported this about a half dozen times now. Hopefully it will stop soon. Many, many apologies.

[darczap]

There is an add for 'PREEN' a weedkiller, that blows up when you put your cursor over it. It's been happenning to me throught the day here and there.

[Arkadin]

you need to post the link that it takes you to so that they can report it.
what's weird is I haven't gotten any bad ads lately, and I usually see all of them.

[Arkadin]

OMG--I spoke too soon.
I just got it.
wow, that's a big one; it covers like 1/4 of the screen.
Atteberry, it is here--
https://sweeps.preen.com/2010AdNetwork

[jedi.master.dre]

There is an add for 'PREEN' a weedkiller, that blows up when you put your cursor over it. It's been happenning to me throught the day here and there.

Frick, me too... and it is huge. Atleast it has a close tab.

[Rich86]

I can't believe how persistent and annoying that Preen pop-up ad is. It may have a close button - but it needs a button to close it permanently.

[Attebery]

Things better today?

[Arkadin]

a new Droid phone exploding ad--
http://phones.verizonwireless.com/htc/incredible/

[krylonman]

The "AOL - What's On Now" ad on the front page is doing this for me and has been for a few days. The "vertical" banner on the right is fine, but a horizontally-inclined version of the same banner pops up as the page loads and blocks the first couple of new review links. No way to close it. This is on Firefox on a rather outdated OS X Mac; haven't tried it any other way.

[Arkadin]

when it "explodes" on you, click on that link and then copy and post the address it takes you to in this thread so they can report it.

[krylonman]

when it "explodes" on you, click on that link and then copy and post the address it takes you to in this thread so they can report it.

No problem. http://adclick.g.doubleclick.net/acl...usaolp00000044

This being a clickthrough thing, after a second it goes to the daol.aol.com address after "adurl."

Keep in mind, this is a continually updated news ticker that rotates between four links, and they aren't the same four all the time, so this exact link may not be able to be reproduced.

[Arkadin]

yeah those are the worst.
makes it really hard to eradicate unfortunately.

[krylonman]

Eh, I'm not outraged. Hitting "stop" fast enough as the page loads is a suitable workaround.

[Almostgoth]

here's an exploding ad from Bell

http[colon]//www[dot]tipcommunications[dot]ca/adwords151?gclid=CNfx0cba2aICFZdL5Qodixp2wg

no close option and it's covering up the review links

[Attebery]

Thanks for posting this.