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The same ad here...I did not recognized it before, but I do not see any other ad at all...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You may have figured it out by now, but yes, it seems to be that specific ad. Other ads are not doing it now.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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We're close - but not sure if we can fix it our end.
Looks like an issue with the way Google serves ads.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Actually it doesn't seems to be a Google Ad... It served by Atlassolutions (Atlas by FB)... And it is still there - exclusively...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Ad serving is like an onion. Layers upon layers upon layers.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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At this moment (15:07 [GMT+3]), started to see various ads and no focus disorientation happening anymore...
Thank you!
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The reported ad still takes the focus, it only happens less as I have other ads too...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yep - Yuriy did some magic and managed to work around the issue.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Today the BAD ad took over my CP again... And it is still stealing focus... The relief was for a few hours only...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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interruption one week ago
without apparent reason
Please clarify
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Your settings seem OK. I have sent you an email confirmation request which should help resolve the issue. Please let me know if you receive it OK.
Also, please let me know if any of these are the issue:
CodeProject Member FAQ[^]
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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email confirmation received and acknowledged
And now I will wait and see !!
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At this time , always no receipt of daily newsletters
The reason is that FREE ,my "Fournisseur Acces Internet ( FAI )"
blocks receipt of newsletters coming from domain like US on their pop3 servers
I have the same problem with ZDNET, Techrepublic newsletters
I don't know why ( it seems that financial discussions between FREE and ORANGE
are in development and rather "hard")
I will try solution of new mail address on Gmail for instance and create a new account
with it , on Code project
Thanks
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Same problem for me (no Daily Build since 30th August) and FREE is also my FAI.
I will try the same work-around (with my Gmail account).
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Fixed (as best the voting system will allow once something has been voted on).
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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At least I assume it's a spambot - it's posting pretty quick for a human. And it's been about a week already.
I hate to say this: but is it time we had a Captcha? If nothing else, it will mess up their current script and make their lives difficult - at best they'll bugger off and try somewhere else.
I mean, they clearly aren't bright enough to notice that nothing is getting through, so getting past a captcha should give them real problems. If they have to use humans, the cost alone may well prevent them posting here.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I assume you mean a CAPTCHA on the sign-up page, not on the "new message" page?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No, on the message page I'm afraid.
The Russian TinyUrl mob appear to be signing up in advance - last Saturday all the users they posted with joined on the Friday - and signup is a (relatively) long process anyway compared to message posting. Slowing signup further doesn't help much unless we can kill users faster as well, given they are using each membership about 16 times before switching to the next.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OK, I see the point. It could get annoying though, unless it was something like reCAPTCHA[^], where you normally only need to tick a box.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You know, I don't find the actual spam cleaning to be such a big problem, the filter works quite fine I find. And it's also easy enough to work on.
The mess comes afterwards, with cleaning up the spammers.
First check if they have been reported before or not.
If not, post about them in the spam forum.
Check posts from other members if other spammer accounts need to be removed.
Double check if it's a probable spammer or not. If there is no obvious reason for why not (as the proof is already gone), trust the poster.
Report.
If it's the tenth report, add a note to the OP that it's been removed.
Honestly, the spammer accounts should be allowed to selfdestruct removed using a simpler procedure.
I'll post a suggestion a bit later when I've thought it through a bit.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: First check if they have been reported before or not.
If not, post about them in the spam forum.
Check posts from other members if other spammer accounts need to be removed.
Double check if it's a probable spammer or not. If there is no obvious reason for why not (as the proof is already gone), trust the poster.
Report.
If it's the tenth report, add a note to the OP that it's been removed.
Precisely.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The reputation graph for this member is unusual: JaoquinPerkins - Professional Profile[^]
It jumps instantaneously from < 10000 to > 60000 and other strange artifacts.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 8-Sep-16 5:59am.
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An abusive member that's been removed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Looks rather similar PakSae - Professional Profile[^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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