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Something at fictionpress.net...
PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:49 pm
by ShiroiHikari
I went there, and I kept getting this incessant JavaScript popup what said something like "Do you want to run IE Plugin?" o.O I didn't let it install anything as far as I know. But what the heck is it? Btw, I was using Mozilla.
PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:23 pm
by inkhana
*goes to the site and clicks around a bit*
I can't trigger it. What pages do you see it on? Oh, and do you have your popup killer on (like, it didn't somehow mysteriously get disabled?)
PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:29 am
by Straylight
Which Mozilla browser were you using? I'm using Firefox, and don't seem to be having that problem.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:52 am
by Mithrandir
OK. I wen't digging through the source code and found some interesting things out. First off, there's a way to set a cookie in your browser to disable the banners altogether. Interesting. Maybe it's a subscriber thing, but it's really easy to hack. 2ndly, that javascript error was undoubtably one of their advertisements. Their main JS files are fairly mundane - whereas their banners come from some nasty location off in no-man's add-banner land, which is notorious for bad JS.
Sooooo, do you still get this error? If you do, you may want to report to the site that their "dollars for eyeballs" program is hindering normal users from accessing the site. That should get thier attention.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:58 am
by ShiroiHikari
It's not coming up now. o.O Oh well, maybe they fixed it.
Edit: Waaagh! It did it again! It was after I sat idle on the page for a minute though. This time I screencapped the thing...if you want I can post it.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:21 am
by Mithrandir
You can if you want. I'm pretty sure it's one of their banner adds, though. I wouldn't worry too much. Once those adds have cycled out, you shouldn't have to worry too much about it. Hmm... Can you deny access to certain locations? I can help you rig your system up to deny access to the offending server: media.fastclick.net Try denying access to that server (or domain) and see if that helps.