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woj · 04-26-2006, 12:53 PM

50.......,

MBS Auto · 04-26-2006, 12:54 PM

Shit... I have adbrite all over my sites.... what should I do take them down??

Rui · 04-26-2006, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by MontrealPimp

no , it is something in their code (adbrite ad code) that just takes over IE and Firefox sends it to another site that adbrite chooses, the surfer has to click nothing, it is pure browser hijacking.

I wonder if I can sue?

Maybe class action suit?

How many other people are they doing this too?

...sue?? for that (even if they are aware of it)...look at this industry for example...

if that was the case lots of paysites would had been sued on a daily basis...

Now if you are talking about the charges only, you do have a ground (to get it fixed, not to go directly "sue them")

Trixxxia · 04-26-2006, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Rui

...sue?? for that (even if they are aware of it)...look at this industry for example...

if that was the case lots of paysites would had been sued on a daily basis...

Now if you are talking about the charges only, you do have a ground (to get it fixed, not to go directly "sue them")

I could be wrong, since I'm not a lawyer, however *if* there are 10 fairly large sponsors who have documented proof *SnagIt allows you to screencap via video your every move on a screen, BTW* , meaning that the spyware installs itself, they click a link to a sponsor and instead of going to fabuloussexsitea.com it goes to theirfabuloussexsiteb.com - they can send a C&D to stop those practices and if they continue I do believe they have grounds to sue in a class action lawsuit for unfair business practices and for hijacking their business & if they can't do it on those grounds, I'm sure they can find members who tried to signup to fabuloussexsitea.com and got redirected and charged by theirfabuloussexsiteb.com.

Actually just quoting something from someone who worked as an expert in similar lawsuits against Gator:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/ads/

The actual term for the sponsors could possibly be:
"Alleging false advertising, unfair competition, trade libel, and tortious interference with prospective economic advantage"

*But I'm not a lawyer and everyone should always seek legal counsel*

Trixxxia · 04-26-2006, 02:20 PM

Also, just to clarify, not saying that's what 'they' are doing - but in the case of whomever *is*.

MarcWomack · 04-27-2006, 02:03 PM

Guys, I've been using Adbrite on our network of sites for months now and I've never seen anything like this. Further, our fans are EXTREMELY vocal when anything fucks up. Haven't heard squat. I'd bet this is more a case of what Lars mentioned. Spyware targeting adbrite's code. We had something similar a few years back where spyware was targeting ConsumptionJunction.com. Anyone infected that visited our site got a pop-up advert everytime they clicked one of our navigation links. We got blamed for it by our fans and we weren't even doing it.

Either way, I've got a long relationship with these guys and I doubt very seriously that they're doing this. I've emailed my rep over there and the CEO / Founder of the company. I'd expect an official response as soon as they get their GFY accounts approved. I also offered to post for them until that happens.

Bottom line, we've made a grip of money with these guys and never had any problems. I highly recommend using them.

pudjam666 · 04-28-2006, 04:14 PM

Not that I wanted to bump this thread to the top, but I saw it and thought I'd respond.

AdBrite doesn't do any type of browser hijacking. We also don't do popups, direct links (SEO spam), or anything else sketchy. In fact, we didn't even set cookies until recently, when we couldn't figure out any other way to do conversion tracking (code that shows advertisers which of their ads are converting into actual sales).

Most likely your site is having a problem with our Interstitial/Intermission code. Interstitials are full-screen ads with a big "Skip this ad" link on the upper-right.

We have heard on occasion of these ads sometimes performing weirdly on sites with lots of other JavaScript/CSS/DHTML stuff going on. If that is the case, you can go into your AdBrite account and turn off Interstitials. Also it would be helpful if you could send us your URL, so we can debug. We'll send you a free tshirt or something for your troubles. Consider it hush money.

Sorry for any inconvenience. Everyone should be aware that Interstitials are (and always have been) by default OFF for all publishers. If a publisher is interested in these types of ads for his site (starts at $5 cpm! okay there's my plug), he must manually turn this option on himself.

Thanks for reading,
pud
www.adbrite.com

clickclickclick · 04-28-2006, 04:20 PM

are u the same pud that owns fuckedcompany.com?

if so thats cool

pudjam666 · 04-28-2006, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by clickclickclick

are u the same pud that owns fuckedcompany.com?

if so thats cool

yes. thanks!

cool1g · 04-28-2006, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by MontrealPimp

What a crazy experience....

Had been using adbrite on a site for a little while, put their ads up and then decided to see how things went.

To my amazment , I had an inbox filled with hundreds of emails, complaints from surfers and members about their browsers going to hollywood poker site and when they would press the back button to go back to my site, they would be forced back to this hollywood poker site.

I had one of my guys who handles sponsors on that site contact them about this and they claim to not know why it has been doing that and that it is even doing it or did it.

Anyhow, the ads were removed promptly and now all is back to normal.

Yesterday I get a call from one of my cc companies... They tell me that they are canceling my card because of a company that has performed 56 attempts to take all different amounts off the card, many small dollar amounts and several over 100.00 (even though I have canceled all advertizing that I used to buy from adbrite, they continue to charge the card, 56 times in the span of about a week or 2, I have not even bought ads from adbrite over the past 2 months now, why all of a sudden these charges.

All I know is I have informed the authorities of this fraud onto my cc and I leave it in their hands.

As for the browser hijacking, I thought that kind of thing was very risky for a reputable company to engage in, what are your opinions on it, perhaps someone else had a negative experience with this company?

were you using the interstitial ads? as the person from adbrite mentioned above, there have been some issues where the URL being shown in the intermission ad is breaking out of the iframe and the surfer is no longer able to click on the 'continue to xxx page' because the frame is busted and the URL being loaded is now 100% full screen. you can't hit the 'back' button because in effect, the URL is loaded like a console so there is no page to go back to...

i've bought some adbrite traffic via this method and that complaint got back to me from some advertisers...it has something to do with competing javascripts from the adbrite code and the pages being loaded.

clickclickclick · 04-28-2006, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pudjam666

yes. thanks!

can i have some money?

GTS Mark · 04-28-2006, 07:03 PM

I have tried many times to contact Adbrite via their contact page and e-mails and I even stopped by and talked to one of their guys at their booth in NYC. Not even one e-mail or phone call back...

DH

asdfqwer · 05-01-2006, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by gentmaster

This Doesnt Surprise Me A Bit.. Adbrite Is Run By And Bunch Of Crooked Turks And Armenian Jews! They Are Alllll Scumbag Whore Hoppers

It cant be,Armenain and Turkish people hate each other,it cant be their venture !

ricks · 05-01-2006, 09:12 AM

Still dosen't explain why his credit card was charged 56 times.

CamJack · 05-01-2006, 09:25 AM

Wow that really sucks

oceania · 05-01-2006, 09:28 AM

wow
i just started using adbrite
had some questions for my account rep and his emails keep bouncing
makes me wonder what exactly is going on

Splum · 05-01-2006, 09:29 AM

Adbrite support sucks but Ive been using them in various places for 2 years and not a single problem. YMMV

KRL · 05-01-2006, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ConsumptionJunction

Guys, I've been using Adbrite on our network of sites for months now and I've never seen anything like this. Further, our fans are EXTREMELY vocal when anything fucks up. Haven't heard squat. I'd bet this is more a case of what Lars mentioned. Spyware targeting adbrite's code. We had something similar a few years back where spyware was targeting ConsumptionJunction.com. Anyone infected that visited our site got a pop-up advert everytime they clicked one of our navigation links. We got blamed for it by our fans and we weren't even doing it.

Either way, I've got a long relationship with these guys and I doubt very seriously that they're doing this. I've emailed my rep over there and the CEO / Founder of the company. I'd expect an official response as soon as they get their GFY accounts approved. I also offered to post for them until that happens.

Bottom line, we've made a grip of money with these guys and never had any problems. I highly recommend using them.

I agree with CJ. Never had problems either.

Probably spyware crap hijacking adbrites code.

INever · 05-01-2006, 09:44 AM

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rowan · 05-01-2006, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ricks

Still dosen't explain why his credit card was charged 56 times.

Bingo. I noticed that pud neatly sidestepped that rather serious issue.

Pleasurepays · 05-01-2006, 10:08 AM

lars already explained it to you fucking tards. i can't for the life of me imagine how you fucktards can be so naive and ignorant to think that a company of that size is going to try to make money like this - when any retarded 3rd grader could tell you that it would destroy the company in minutes.

will76 · 11-10-2006, 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LegendaryLars

remember folks this could be someone hijacking all adbright ads and redirecting with spyware, not everything is as it seems ont eh internet these days lots of huge Spyware networks are redirecting all kinds of traffic based on the urls in the pages and they look for big ad networks and large sites to target.

You don't say ?

lucky1 · 11-10-2006, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by will76

You don't say ?

He sure seems to know what he is talking about.

I wonder why?

will76 · 11-10-2006, 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pleasurepays

lars already explained it to you fucking tards. i can't for the life of me imagine how you fucktards can be so naive and ignorant to think that a company of that size is going to try to make money like this - when any retarded 3rd grader could tell you that it would destroy the company in minutes.

LOL you mean like AFF making money this way ?

Phoenix · 11-10-2006, 11:28 PM

can anyone teach me how to charge a card 56 times...k thanks...lol

jk

will76 · 11-10-2006, 11:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phoenix

can anyone teach me how to charge a card 56 times...k thanks...lol

jk

You think visa would be on to them after the 52'nd time

studiocritic · 11-10-2006, 11:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by will76

You think visa would be on to them after the 52'nd time

will, i've got some info you might like to get ahold of re zango.. hit me up on icq, i just tried to add you 254342256

marketsmart · 11-10-2006, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phoenix

can anyone teach me how to charge a card 56 times...k thanks...lol

jk

thats not even possible

Tuga · 11-11-2006, 03:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LegendaryLars

remember folks this could be someone hijacking all adbright ads and redirecting with spyware, not everything is as it seems ont eh internet these days lots of huge Spyware networks are redirecting all kinds of traffic based on the urls in the pages and they look for big ad networks and large sites to target.

will76 · 11-11-2006, 08:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuga

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pudjam666 Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 62	Not that I wanted to bump this thread to the top, but I saw it and thought I'd respond. AdBrite doesn't do any type of browser hijacking. We also don't do popups, direct links (SEO spam), or anything else sketchy. In fact, we didn't even set cookies until recently, when we couldn't figure out any other way to do conversion tracking (code that shows advertisers which of their ads are converting into actual sales). Most likely your site is having a problem with our Interstitial/Intermission code. Interstitials are full-screen ads with a big "Skip this ad" link on the upper-right. We have heard on occasion of these ads sometimes performing weirdly on sites with lots of other JavaScript/CSS/DHTML stuff going on. If that is the case, you can go into your AdBrite account and turn off Interstitials. Also it would be helpful if you could send us your URL, so we can debug. We'll send you a free tshirt or something for your troubles. Consider it hush money. Sorry for any inconvenience. Everyone should be aware that Interstitials are (and always have been) by default OFF for all publishers. If a publisher is interested in these types of ads for his site (starts at $5 cpm! okay there's my plug), he must manually turn this option on himself. Thanks for reading, pud www.adbrite.com

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INever Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: .......in a niche, in orbit...... Posts: 3,577	If this is true and it gets out it will be harder for Adbrite for recruit Ad Sales Account Executive for Growing Start-up (financial district) Reply to: [email protected] Date: 2006-05-01, 9:18AM PDT Join AdBrite, one of the most promising startups in the bay area, as an Account Executive for Ad Sales. Checkout what the LA Times, Wall Street Journal and others are saying about AdBrite: http://press.adbrite.com AdBrite is the Internet?s ad marketplace serving ads on over 12,000 sites, reaching 30 million unique people a day across 450,000,000 pageviews. An example of the sites utilizing AdBrite includes Friendster, NHL.com, Gawker, hahahahahahahahahaha, Alexa, and LinkedIn.com. We're looking for an individual who is a self starter and is eager to make an immediate impact. Responsibilities: This individual will be responsible for driving new business revenue from identified prospects Meeting quarterly revenue targets as set by sales management Other revenue generating duties as assigned Requirements: The ideal candidate will have a minimum 3-6 years sales experience (online preferred) Undergraduate degree or equivalent job experience Outstanding written and verbal communication skills Some understanding of online advertising a plus Self-motivated, detail oriented and outgoing Proven sales experience required Experience with online advertising a plus, but not limited to those with online sales experience AdBrite provides free lunch everyday, offers flexibility and a great opportunity to grow within the company, and is proudly backed by Sequoia Capital. Please send your resume to [email protected] About AdBrite: AdBrite is an Internet Advertising Marketplace that connects independent web publishers with thousands of advertisers. The company enables publishers to monetize their sites by offering an easy-to-use set of tools that handles all publishers' ad sales needs. With its unique ad-approval system, AdBrite also provides web publishers with total control over the look, feel, and content of ads on their site. AdBrite helps advertisers tap into highly targeted demographics among more than 12,000 high-performing web sites, reaching over 30 million unique users every day. Based in San Francisco, AdBrite is backed by Sequoia Capital.

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