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BigFurryMonster is offline BigFurryMonster
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Feb 2002
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Ugly advertisements Full PM-box? Change here!

Some company named "Cydoor" is displaying very ugly advertisements over the Apolyton page, in a different language than the one in the Forum (probably based on my IP address). I also need to click on it for it to move away.

Do the Apolyton mods realize that this is very annoying?

I can see the need for ads, but not in this way!

Attachment: cydoor ad.jpg
This has been downloaded 241 time(s).
DrSpike is offline DrSpike
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Sep 2001
time: 05:16
  Old Post 06-04-2005 12:50
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Got spare money?

So what's the ad for exactly?
alva is offline alva
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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
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Suffering from ads?

Some IQ test (which you just failed. )
DrSpike is offline DrSpike
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Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

Hehe, but what is the product? Are they expecting you to pay to learn you are stupid?

Maquiladora is offline Maquiladora
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Jun 2001
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Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

Cydoor is evil spyware. Kill it.
MarkG is offline MarkG
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Donate to the Red Cross		 Macedonia, Greece
Jan 1970
time: 07:16
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Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

please provide all possible url's you can get from the ad (from any link, image location, html source of the ad)
Asmodean is offline Asmodean
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Aarhus, Denmark
Aug 1999
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Get a bigger avatar today!

Get Plus

Asmodean
Dr Zoidberg is offline Dr Zoidberg
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Communist Party of Apolyton
Jan 2002
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Support Apolyton

As Maqiladora said, it´s evil spyware. AFAIK it has nothing to do with Poly... Info on how to remove it: http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=7
Hueij is offline Hueij
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Kokonino Kounty
May 1999
time: 06:16
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Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Get a good browser...
BigFurryMonster is offline BigFurryMonster
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Feb 2002
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Inflate your Upload Space

Strange. I only get it on Poly, and particularly on that Forum.

Will look into the URL / HTML next time I see one.
Dr Zoidberg is offline Dr Zoidberg
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Communist Party of Apolyton
Jan 2002
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Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

quote:
 Originally posted by BigFurryMonster
Strange. I only get it on Poly, and particularly on that Forum.

Will look into the URL / HTML next time I see one.


That is really weird...

Nikolai is offline Nikolai
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Bergen, Norway
Oct 2000
time: 06:16
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I just got a similar one, only it was an advertisement for smilies. It was flash, but I couldn't find any way to get a url unfortunately.
Oerdin is offline Oerdin
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of Internet Music.
Sep 2001
time: 21:16
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Increase Your PM Length

I haven't seen any ads for months.

BigFurryMonster is offline BigFurryMonster
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Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

Just got another one. Cydoor again. Clicking it linked to:

http://j.2004cms.com/redirect/click...k720x300_042005

and the redirect got me to:

http://euro.tridentlounge.com/home...._042005&lang=en

I saw it on a private Apolyton Forum:
http://apolyton.net/forums/forumdis...?s=&forumid=244

Come to think of it, that's the only Forum I'm getting them at. Maybe this has to do with the fact that I open that Forum first, and I'm only getting the ads during the first screen of my Poly session.
Dr Zoidberg is offline Dr Zoidberg
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Communist Party of Apolyton
Jan 2002
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Put an end to popups!

There are private forums? Other than the mod forum I mean...
Dr Zoidberg is offline Dr Zoidberg
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Jan 2002
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Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

quote:
 Originally posted by Oerdin
I haven't seen any ads for months.


Same here, thank you Firefox

Jaguar is offline Jaguar
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Montgomery County, MD
Apr 2000
time: 00:16
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Some IQ test (which you just failed. )

Yes, it's an IQ test, and the bottom one is the answer.
Mercator is offline Mercator
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Sorekara no Nanimo
Jan 1970
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Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

I've also had that ad, but I don't see what makes it different from any of the other pop-ups I'm getting on 'poly... Probably because I'm using Firefox.
Nikolai is offline Nikolai
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Oct 2000
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Just got one, using IE for the first time on poly for months(FF has some problems).

Adress:

http://jburst.cjt1.net/HTM/715/0/Ja...ew/F_316700.gif
Kaak is offline Kaak
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Lost
May 1999
time: 23:16
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private forums?!!?!? i want in

Rhothaerill is offline Rhothaerill
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Vincent Returns!!!
Feb 2003
time: 21:16
  Old Post 18-06-2005 00:41
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Get a bigger avatar today!

They're usually for the multi-team democracy games so that no one from another team can infiltrate the plans of your team.

If you play Civ3 the Euphorica team from the C3CDG is looking for more members.

Zopperoni is offline Zopperoni
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Dec 2000
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Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

You must mean "they're usually for the multi-team democracy games so that no one from another team can infiltrate the plans of your team report you for scoring cheap +1's".
Rhothaerill is offline Rhothaerill
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Feb 2003
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While all the demogames I've been a part of our amazingly on topic most of the time, I'm not going to respond any more than that since I know that's a standard troll in the A/C forum.

Oerdin is offline Oerdin
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Sep 2001
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Got spare money?

quote:
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private forums?!!?!? i want in


Me too. How do I get into the secret forum?
alva is offline alva
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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
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Full PM-box? Change here!

Join one of the teams.

One demo game has just finished though.
Shogun Gunner is offline Shogun Gunner
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Potomac Falls, Virginia
Oct 2000
time: 00:16
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Support Apolyton

You each can have your own private forum where you can post whatever you want -- no mod censorship.

goto notepad.com on your machine and start typing!

Rubychaser is offline Rubychaser
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Range Rover
Dec 2003
time: 16:16
  Old Post 22-06-2005 15:54
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Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Plus pays for no ads right? and ads pay to keep site open right? good site, ads work for me for now.

There are good demo games open now

DrSpike is offline DrSpike
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Sep 2001
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Suffering from ads?

quote:
 Originally posted by Shogun Gunner
You each can have your own private forum where you can post whatever you want -- no mod censorship.


But they can still see what is going on after the fact at least, and maybe during.

BigFurryMonster is offline BigFurryMonster
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Feb 2002
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Now this is the worst ad I've seen on Poly sofar.

I can't even click it away!

It appears after I click the Cydoor ad away.

Now what is going on? I run Spybot and AdAware regularly. This only happens on Apolyton...

Attachment: apolyton advertisement.jpg
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BigFurryMonster is offline BigFurryMonster
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This might give a clue.
I get an Error report from IE after the page has loaded. Opening that, I get the message below. It seems as if Apolyton invokes some Google-ad mechanism... ?! But why is Cydoor interfering?

Attachment: apolyton ad with error.jpg
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