adbrite hijacking surfer's browsers + charging credit card 56 times - GoFuckYourself.com

MontrealPimp · 04-26-2006, 12:36 AM

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?

WWC · 04-26-2006, 12:37 AM

wow...how do people think they can get away with that kind of stuff...?

Trax · 04-26-2006, 12:40 AM

ive seen the browser hijacking myself. I think I will drop them

lazycash · 04-26-2006, 12:41 AM

Was it your surfers clicking on a particular advertiser on your site and they were the ones doing the hijacking?

MontrealPimp · 04-26-2006, 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lazycash

Was it your surfers clicking on a particular advertiser on your site and they were the ones doing the hijacking?

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?

MontrealPimp · 04-26-2006, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Trax

ive seen the browser hijacking myself. I think I will drop them

glad that I am not the only victim here.

Seems like a class action suit in the making

2HousePlague · 04-26-2006, 12:45 AM

Sig spot.

2hp

MontrealPimp · 04-26-2006, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by 2HousePlague

Sig spot.

2hp

Can you feel the drama ?

SmokeyTheBear · 04-26-2006, 01:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MontrealPimp

Can you feel the drama ?

i lost my arms in a bazooka accident.. describe it to me..

Screaming · 04-26-2006, 01:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

i lost my arms in a bazooka accident.. describe it to me..

remember the 1st time you smoked cocaine?

alot like that, but with out the taste.

darksoul · 04-26-2006, 01:20 AM

adbrite sucks ass.
they charge you when you setup a campaign and if the campaign is not approved you don't get your money back and you can't use it for other campaigns either.
sigh

2HousePlague · 04-26-2006, 01:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MontrealPimp

Can you feel the drama ?

Like a cool breeze against my anus --

2hp

potter · 04-26-2006, 01:23 AM

I'm sorry, but I can't just trust an accusation like this just because you say so. Who the hell are you? Without proof this is just bullshit hearsay. You can't go blaming a program like adbrite for something like this without some sort of proof.

Dagwolf · 04-26-2006, 01:26 AM

Aw, sheeit. I've been recommending them to people and using them on my blog... I hope it's just a rogue advertiser and not Adbrite itself.

gentmaster · 04-26-2006, 01:28 AM

They Know How To Clock Mad Dollars.. Pay Attention Noobies.. Doing This Shady Work Is How Ya Gets Payed!

gentmaster · 04-26-2006, 01:30 AM

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

Trax · 04-26-2006, 01:31 AM

its no advertiser
its adbrite
its like a major fullpage ad overtaking the whole page
its adbrite for sure

2HousePlague · 04-26-2006, 01:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gentmaster

They Know How To Clock Mad Dollars.. Pay Attention Noobies.. Doing This Shady Work Is How Ya Gets Played!

2hp

The Duck · 04-26-2006, 01:34 AM

Quote:

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

umm, are you referring to christina r. turkich, one of their reps. I believe thats just her name...

xxxice · 04-26-2006, 01:45 AM

Are you guys talking about this http://www.adbrite.com/mb/intermission_splash.php

MontrealPimp · 04-26-2006, 02:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanderweb

Are you guys talking about this http://www.adbrite.com/mb/intermission_splash.php

no, that option has a continue to site button for surfers to click on, that is not the same.

SmokeyTheBear · 04-26-2006, 02:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Screaming

remember the 1st time you smoked cocaine?

alot like that, but with out the taste.

never smoked any but if it tastes anything like it smells... lol

actually thats a lie , i have smoked some in a joint but , didnt really taste much , nothing like when you light your ciggy backwards anyways..

BoNgHiTtA · 04-26-2006, 02:43 AM

They have been doing this for several weeks now. And wasn't pud all high and mighty on himself that he is Mr. Proffesional businessman, and doesn't need to do wrong.

What a fucking bullshitting little lieing jew.

chadglni · 04-26-2006, 02:45 AM

Quote:

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?

I hope you aren't talking about "Intermission" ads which can be disabled and must be enabled by you.

nofx · 04-26-2006, 03:17 AM

bumpb bump wtfux

darnit · 04-26-2006, 03:40 AM

I would like to hear more about this. Ive been using them (well AVN Ads to be precise) on some sites and never experienced any problems or had complaints from surfers.

Can anyone else shed some light on this matter?

Ray@TastyDollars · 04-26-2006, 04:05 AM

AdNotTobrite?

Pryda · 04-26-2006, 04:29 AM

No problems here.

Drake · 04-26-2006, 04:37 AM

That sucks

Tuga · 04-26-2006, 04:44 AM

I call bullshit. I use adbrite on a 85.000 users forum on every page and never got a complaint.

Babaganoosh · 04-26-2006, 05:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Ray

AdNotTobrite?

too, moron

Ray@TastyDollars · 04-26-2006, 05:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

too, moron

I must be for not using the GFY spellcheck first, Im such an idiot.

Sven-David · 04-26-2006, 05:12 AM

that's fucked up

~Ray · 04-26-2006, 07:38 AM

write your own ads

Trixxxia · 04-26-2006, 07:45 AM

Quote:

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?

MP do you still have a live sample of this or have they 'disabled' it?

Also, is it just sending to Poker or is it because that's what you're promoting on that page? If it's an adult sponsor, are they hijacking and redirecting to another sponsor?

If you can hit me up - I'd like more info on this please. Thanks

JenUncut · 04-26-2006, 07:45 AM

When looking to purchase traffic today, I came accrossa dbrite and was considering buying some traffic. Has anyone else had a bad experience with them. And, if you have had good, can you post that as well?

Thanks In Advance!

Jen

Phoenix · 04-26-2006, 08:20 AM

nice..is something that anyone can do?

56 times...bling bling

;)

emaginiKris · 04-26-2006, 08:24 AM

mother fuckers

Xenophage · 04-26-2006, 09:04 AM

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.

potter · 04-26-2006, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanderweb

Are you guys talking about this http://www.adbrite.com/mb/intermission_splash.php

lmao.. I honestly will put money down this is what they were talking about.

Welcome to the internet

madawgz · 04-26-2006, 12:22 PM

maybe it was some other spyware they had... :?

BlingDaddy · 04-26-2006, 12:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadglni

I hope you aren't talking about "Intermission" ads which can be disabled and must be enabled by you.

That was my first thought. The intermission ads freaked me the first time, and then I just turned them all off. I've never had a problem with adbrite/avnads.

JenUncut · 04-26-2006, 12:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by potter

lmao.. I honestly will put money down this is what they were talking about.

Welcome to the internet

Yea I was thinking the same. I ended up buying some traffic from over there just to see how it goes. But, I did some research on that type of traffic and I am betting that is what it was as well. Wish me luck, lol.

Hugs,
Jen

BlingDaddy · 04-26-2006, 12:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JenUncut

Yea I was thinking the same. I ended up buying some traffic from over there just to see how it goes. But, I did some research on that type of traffic and I am betting that is what it was as well. Wish me luck, lol.

Hugs,
Jen

Buy spots from my site. ICQ me with questions at left.

nexcom28 · 04-26-2006, 12:29 PM

Adbrite are a seriously shady company and I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot bargepole nowadays..
I used to promote them lol until I discovered adengage amongst others..

Manowar · 04-26-2006, 12:30 PM

Interesting

Doctor Dre · 04-26-2006, 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WWC-Raffi

wow...how do people think they can get away with that kind of stuff...?

They do ... the big dialer scams lasted for years

WiredGuy · 04-26-2006, 12:36 PM

Can anyone post a link to the full page ad they're showing (hopefully a pic of it rather, I don't want my browser getting spyware installed).
WG

JenUncut · 04-26-2006, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlingDaddy

Buy spots from my site. ICQ me with questions at left.

Hey sweety!! Will def buy some of yours on my next order as If this goes well, I plan to buy up some more

))

Hugs,
Jen

marketsmart · 04-26-2006, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2HousePlague

2hp

You have a nice cock..

04-26-2006, 12:36 AM	#1
MontrealPimp Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 937	adbrite hijacking surfer's browsers + charging credit card 56 times 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?

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04-26-2006, 12:40 AM	#3
Trax [----------------------] Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 14,486	ive seen the browser hijacking myself. I think I will drop them

04-26-2006, 12:41 AM	#4
lazycash Troll Patrol Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Local Socal Posts: 15,214	Was it your surfers clicking on a particular advertiser on your site and they were the ones doing the hijacking?

04-26-2006, 01:26 AM	#14
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04-26-2006, 01:31 AM	#17
Trax [----------------------] Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 14,486	its no advertiser its adbrite its like a major fullpage ad overtaking the whole page its adbrite for sure

04-26-2006, 01:45 AM	#20
xxxice Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 5,042	Are you guys talking about this http://www.adbrite.com/mb/intermission_splash.php

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