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#143400 13-Apr-2014 22:01
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from today the placement of advertising on Geekzone seems a little bit off.
I am getting this on almost all forum pages

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  #1024598 13-Apr-2014 22:10
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What browser/OS combination please?




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  #1024599 13-Apr-2014 22:12
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Wonder if it's release related to Firefox - I'm not getting this in Chrome. Have you tried a different browser?

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  #1024601 13-Apr-2014 22:13
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I tested this on Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox. Not seeing this. So it is probably a specific combination.




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  #1024602 13-Apr-2014 22:15
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freitasm: What browser/OS combination please?



Firefox 28.0 on openSUSE 13.1
Chromium displays fine.

This afternoon this problem wasn't present.
I haven't applied any updates in over a week that might have caused this.

edit: clearing history, cache etc . .  problem still present

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  #1024603 13-Apr-2014 22:15
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Also, which ad blocker are you using?

This is my test Firefox (on Windows):




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  #1024606 13-Apr-2014 22:18
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freitasm: Also, which ad blocker are you using?




adblock plus 2.5.1
but it is disabled for Geekzone.

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  #1024608 13-Apr-2014 22:18
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@op: posting links to those two pages above might be useful here.



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  #1024610 13-Apr-2014 22:19
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farcus:
freitasm: Also, which ad blocker are you using?




adblock plus 2.5.1
but it is disabled for Geekzone.


I suggest you use Chromium for a while. I'm investigating this one...




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  #1024612 13-Apr-2014 22:20
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freitasm:
farcus:
freitasm: Also, which ad blocker are you using?




adblock plus 2.5.1
but it is disabled for Geekzone.


I suggest you use Chromium for a while. I'm investigating this one...






edit: i was also meant to say that I have this issue too at work place - using IE 8 (last week)

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  #1024620 13-Apr-2014 22:25
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Ok, IE8 (really?) and Firefox/Linux.




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  #1024624 13-Apr-2014 22:30
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freitasm: Ok, IE8 (really?) and Firefox/Linux.




Yes, IE8 on windows XP (sad indeed)

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  #1024625 13-Apr-2014 22:33
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seems like it might be related to adblock plus somehow.
If I disable adblock universally then the problem isn't present.
Re-enable adblock with an exception for Geekzone then the issue is present again (sporadically)

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  #1024630 13-Apr-2014 22:40
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is adblock being confused by the presence of this advertising?



If I enable adblock fully the above advertising is still shown in geekzone (I guess because it is being fed by geekzone itself.)

With an exception added for geekzone then I sometimes get one of the above types of ads at the top followed by a misplaced google ad

what confuses me though is it only started happening tonight without me updating anything at all.
Have there been changes on geekzone today?

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  #1024631 13-Apr-2014 22:41
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Possible. I've forwarded this to be checked.




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  #1024634 13-Apr-2014 22:56
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To answer your question: no changes here for the last week now.




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