I keep getting transferred to a page with the following text, is it a rogue advert?
Your connection is not secure
The website tried to negotiate an inadequate level of security.
sportbestshop.com uses security technology that is outdated and vulnerable to attack. An attacker could easily reveal information which you thought to be safe. The website administrator will need to fix the server first before you can visit the site.
I’m using firefox and there seem to be a lot of issues today. Even when I don’t get that redirect, the site just grinds to a halt and I have to force quit…
Can’t say I was best pleased, when my covert viewing at work, re-directs to some f**king betting site which flags up as inappropriate to our IT dept! Great start to a Friday morning!
On the For Sale forum I am being redirected to a malware page advising I have a trojan installed, this was a redirect from For Sale forum to sportsbest.com to limeclick.com and them onwards to a fake anti-virus site. Very bad 🙁
Everytime this comes up (normally at weekends when no one is around to fix it) it’s brought up that ad revenue from the forums keeps everything else afloat. Why not ditch the magazine then and invest in the forums? Spamming us with dodgy ads is subsidising a lifestyle business for a few folk, maybe if the forum was better run then a lot more people would pay for it.
I still can’t ever recall this being said/written. I’d love to have it clarified, though I’m happy to pay my £15 pa just for the forum and never read the magazine articles.
Everytime this comes up (normally at weekends when no one is around to fix it) it’s brought up that ad revenue from the forums keeps everything else afloat.
Everytime this comes up (normally at weekends when no one is around to fix it) it’s brought up that ad revenue from the forums keeps everything else afloat.
Has it? [/quote]Pretty much yes, maybe if you spent as much time reading them as closing them you’ll have noticed. Whether it’s true or not is another question. Maybe someone who knew would clarify, but I doubt it.
Whilst it’s more important to close discussions and delete posts than it is to stop spamming users with shitty ads and redirects, very little….this all day
Duplicate threads on any subject are routinely closed. It stops users spamming the forums with the same stuff over and over again and means that those of us paying for access don’t have to scroll past them all. As for closing discussion – you what now?
In fact, maybe there could be a special sub-forum for threads complaining about ads, the we wouldn’t have to see them at all.
Pretty much yes, maybe if you spent as much time reading them as closing them you’ll have noticed. Whether it’s true or not is another question. Maybe someone who knew would clarify, but I doubt it.
So that’s a no then other than your own speculation. The Ads help keep the forum afloat, help not cover the cost.
To try and keep track of what is going on we close duplicate threads on these or we have several different, it’s better to have on thread where people can discuss the issues to try and narrow it down.
I’d love to know how much money the ads generate.
I only have experience of helping to run one forum/website and we chose a different route to cover costs, but the point is it worked.