WordPress.com Forums » Tag: browser addon issue - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/browser-addon-issue WordPress.com Forums » Tag: browser addon issue - Recent Posts en Wed, 22 May 2013 01:53:02 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 drusillamott on "OFFENDING ADS AND UNAUTHORIZED LINKS IN MY POSTS" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offending-ads-and-unauthorized-links-in-my-posts#post-1248584 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:01:45 +0000 drusillamott 1248584@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you for your input. I had only seen them on WordPress and so assumed, wrongly, that they were ads coming from there. I apologize for my assumption and want to tell you that from your advice, I began a search of other areas - google, hotmail, internet explorer - and soon found the ads popping up in all areas. I began looking more closely at the ads and discovered that they were from an app that came with a photo program that I had downloaded without realizing there were any hidden apps in it. I have since uninstalled the program and so far have no more ads popping up.

Again, I apologize and thank you for your assistance.

]]> raincoaster on "OFFENDING ADS AND UNAUTHORIZED LINKS IN MY POSTS" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offending-ads-and-unauthorized-links-in-my-posts#post-1246501 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:52:55 +0000 raincoaster 1246501@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Did the ads have "About these ads" beside them? Because if they don't, then they are not put there by WordPress.com. If you don't want the ads placed by WP.com, buy the No Ads upgrade.

If those ads are NOT from WordPress.com, then they are from a browser extension that you have enabled, and the solution is to find out which one it is and delete it.

]]> timethief on "OFFENDING ADS AND UNAUTHORIZED LINKS IN MY POSTS" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offending-ads-and-unauthorized-links-in-my-posts#post-1246467 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:15:57 +0000 timethief 1246467@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ All of WordPress.com ads are family-friendly. If and only if the ads you see are found at the end of blog posts and you see this small About These Ads link http://en.wordpress.com/about-these-ads/ what you are seeing is WordPress.com generated advertising.

If you feel an ad is inappropriate please take a screenshot of it, upload it via Media -> Add New to your Media Library. Then return to this thread to post the file name to let Staff them know it’s there for them to view.

]]> timethief on "OFFENDING ADS AND UNAUTHORIZED LINKS IN MY POSTS" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offending-ads-and-unauthorized-links-in-my-posts#post-1246464 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:11:40 +0000 timethief 1246464@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Please also note that it's possible for ads to appear in your browser that were not placed there by WordPress.com. These ads are sometimes caused by malware or a virus, but more often it is due to a browser extension or toolbar that you may have installed in your browser. WordPress.com does not use text enhance or text link ads or pop-up ads or links in comments. If you are seeing those then see here:
http://www.littletechiethings.com/2012/06/how-to-remove-ads-not-by-this-site.html http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/09/14/bloggers-beware-of-adware/

]]> drusillamott on "OFFENDING ADS AND UNAUTHORIZED LINKS IN MY POSTS" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offending-ads-and-unauthorized-links-in-my-posts#post-1246462 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:09:35 +0000 drusillamott 1246462@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I tried to edit a post and was bombarded with offending ads at the top of the screen and an ad on the side that is offensive in the extreme of a woman taking her top off. If you are going to put ads on here, please make them something that a child can see - not something so perverted. When I got the post updated and went to preview the changes, there was a added in that I did not put in there. What is going on?

]]> drusillamott on "OFFENDING ADS AND UNAUTHORIZED LINKS IN MY POSTS" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offending-ads-and-unauthorized-links-in-my-posts#post-1246460 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:06:49 +0000 drusillamott 1246460@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I tried to edit a post and was bombarded with offending ads at the top of the screen and an ad on the side that is offensive in the extreme of a woman taking her top off. If you are going to put ads on here, please make them something that a child can see - not something so perverted.

]]> timethief on "Paid for NO ADS on my site, yet they remain." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paid-for-no-ads-on-my-site-yet-they-remain#post-1107592 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:45:03 +0000 timethief 1107592@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome.

]]> timethief on "Inappropriate Ads" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/inappropriate-ads-2#post-1107472 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:03:46 +0000 timethief 1107472@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ oops! I forgot a letter above. I meant to type "pop-up" no "op-up".

]]> timethief on "Inappropriate Ads" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/inappropriate-ads-2#post-1107471 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:02:54 +0000 timethief 1107471@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The alcohol related op-up is NOT an advertisement placed by WordPress.com. It's caused by a browser add-on.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/09/14/bloggers-beware-of-adware/

]]> fun4me02 on "Inappropriate Ads" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/inappropriate-ads-2#post-1107467 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:59:06 +0000 fun4me02 1107467@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi,

My daughter's blog, smilezone4kids.wordpress.com, is written for a young audience. Is there a way to limit ads to those that are appropriate for this audience?

Just had an alcohol-related ad pop up.

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

Regards,
Keith

]]> ladynyo on "Paid for NO ADS on my site, yet they remain." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paid-for-no-ads-on-my-site-yet-they-remain#post-1105934 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:26:51 +0000 ladynyo 1105934@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ LOL!

It's a simple issue of being stupid here....I don't know how to get rid of it~

I'll have to ask a neighbor to do this. LOL!

And thank you, again.

Lady Nyo

]]> timethief on "Paid for NO ADS on my site, yet they remain." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paid-for-no-ads-on-my-site-yet-they-remain#post-1105907 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:04:02 +0000 timethief 1105907@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

I'm learning to live with it.

Hi there,
I'm glad I helped you make sense of this. I don't know why you would choose to live with adware on your browser that displays ads when you can be shed of it but the choice is yours to make. You're welcome .

]]> ladynyo on "Paid for NO ADS on my site, yet they remain." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paid-for-no-ads-on-my-site-yet-they-remain#post-1105903 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:58:30 +0000 ladynyo 1105903@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you!

That all makes sense.

I'm learning to live with it. Am publishing another book this spring, and these issues are annoying, but not crucial to the work.

After paying the $30.00 to WordPress, there are no sitings of ads on my blog to my readers. Thankful for that!

Lady Nyo

]]> timethief on "Paid for NO ADS on my site, yet they remain." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paid-for-no-ads-on-my-site-yet-they-remain#post-1105872 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:32:14 +0000 timethief 1105872@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @ladynyo
If the ads you see are found at the end of blog posts then what you are seeing is WordPress.com generated advertising. Look for the About These Ads link and click it to confirm that.
http://en.wordpress.com/about-these-ads/

WordPress.com does not use text enhance or text link ads or pop-up ads or links in comments. If you are seeing those then that’s a browser-ad-on issue, or in some cases, it’s from adware embedded into free games downloaded from the internet, or has been unwittingly picked up on an online shopping site. See here: Bloggers: Beware of Adware. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/09/14/bloggers-beware-of-adware/

If what you are seeing whenever you save or update a post or page is an automatically added code/script block at the end of posts and pages that you can’t delete then see here: Malware Targets Macs and Windows PCs http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/02/malware-targets-macs-and-windows-pcs/

]]> ladynyo on "Paid for NO ADS on my site, yet they remain." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paid-for-no-ads-on-my-site-yet-they-remain#post-1105839 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:02:33 +0000 ladynyo 1105839@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Why would I put ads on my browser?

Thanks just stupid.

Lady Nyo

]]> raincoaster on "Paid for NO ADS on my site, yet they remain." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paid-for-no-ads-on-my-site-yet-they-remain#post-1105801 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:28:03 +0000 raincoaster 1105801@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's a little rich to blame WordPress for ads you've put on your own browser. Why not just disable the browser extension which is doing this?

Ads that are self-hosted obviously are not part of WordPress.com's ads, and need to be at WordPress.org.

]]> ladynyo on "Paid for NO ADS on my site, yet they remain." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paid-for-no-ads-on-my-site-yet-they-remain#post-1105795 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:22:52 +0000 ladynyo 1105795@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi! I am so sorry you are having these ads appear. They do so on my blog...and they are hideous. Tummy fat, bad teeth! Quite the turnoff at breakfast!

I don't know what, if any, solution there is for this. wordpress says they are their spam collector? site stats generator? I can't remember....but wordpress is involved in this, and the solutions I am sent from wordpress are more time consuming than worth it. I don't have time or the expertise to do what they say just for them to get a gander at what I am complaining about. So....I am living with it.

Bless WordPress' little pointed heads....I am thankful for the blog and the snow on it. In the Deep South, we don't get much of that.

Lady Nyo....... http://ladynyo.wordpress.com

]]> aalaaron on "Paid for NO ADS on my site, yet they remain." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paid-for-no-ads-on-my-site-yet-they-remain#post-1105778 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:54:20 +0000 aalaaron 1105778@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi, I am also having problems with ads. I don't know if they appear on my site, but my webpage is self-hosted and when I explore the site through dashboard, sometimes ads appear! As some content is against certain companies (e.g. tax avoiders) who appear as advertising at the bottom of the page, this seems hypocritical! Any suggestions please?

]]> thistimethisspace on "Why are parts of my blog being turned into hyperlinks?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-are-parts-of-my-blog-being-turned-into-hyperlinks#post-1093399 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:25:05 +0000 thistimethisspace 1093399@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If you follow the instructions, it will. :)

]]> irreverendforhire on "Why are parts of my blog being turned into hyperlinks?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-are-parts-of-my-blog-being-turned-into-hyperlinks#post-1093395 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:23:57 +0000 irreverendforhire 1093395@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks - yeah, right after I posted this I noticed the same thing on another webpage... and thanks for the link! Hope that does the trick!

]]> thistimethisspace on "Why are parts of my blog being turned into hyperlinks?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-are-parts-of-my-blog-being-turned-into-hyperlinks#post-1093353 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:03:43 +0000 thistimethisspace 1093353@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That's sounds to me like a browser add-on issue. WordPress.com does not use text enhance or text link ads or pop-up ads or links in comments. If you are seeing those then that's a browser-ad-on issue, or in some cases, it's embedded into free games and/or toolbars downloaded from the internet. See here: Bloggers: Beware of Adware. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/09/14/bloggers-beware-of-adware/

]]> irreverendforhire on "Why are parts of my blog being turned into hyperlinks?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-are-parts-of-my-blog-being-turned-into-hyperlinks#post-1093294 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:30:06 +0000 irreverendforhire 1093294@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have been using WordPress for years, and was appalled to find that, suddenly, a huge number of words and phrases on my blog have been randomly turned into irrelevant hyperlinks... it's really going to be upsetting if this can't be corrected. No idea why it started doing this... help!

]]> macmanx on "Why do I have ads when I am paying NOT to have them?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-have-ads-when-i-am-paying-not-to-have-them#post-1084834 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:10:53 +0000 macmanx 1084834@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome!

]]> waltzingmorethanmatilda on "Why do I have ads when I am paying NOT to have them?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-have-ads-when-i-am-paying-not-to-have-them#post-1084401 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:24:25 +0000 waltzingmorethanmatilda 1084401@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes that was the problem - I removed everything from my chart, and it was fine.

I'm now wondering if that's why I thought I had already paid for it - if I put it in my shopping cart, but the payment didn't go through for some reason, that would explain it.

Thank you.

]]> macmanx on "Why do I have ads when I am paying NOT to have them?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-have-ads-when-i-am-paying-not-to-have-them#post-1081043 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:28:37 +0000 macmanx 1081043@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hm, that's very odd.

Would you please check your shopping cart to make sure that the bundle isn't already there?

Since the bundle includes No Ads, you won't be able to add No Ads if the bundle is already in the cart.

If the bundle is in the cart, remove it and try again.

If it isn't, please try from the Store section of your blog's Dashboard instead.

]]> waltzingmorethanmatilda on "Why do I have ads when I am paying NOT to have them?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-have-ads-when-i-am-paying-not-to-have-them#post-1080884 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:57:36 +0000 waltzingmorethanmatilda 1080884@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's just that when I press on the button which says "Pay $30 for No-Ads upgrade" it puts the $79 bundle into my shopping cart.

]]> macmanx on "Why do I have ads when I am paying NOT to have them?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-have-ads-when-i-am-paying-not-to-have-them#post-1080801 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:13:29 +0000 macmanx 1080801@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I think you may be getting the upgrade confused with the bundle.

The $99 Value Bundle does include the No Ads upgrade, but the No Ads upgrade can also be purchased separately for $30.

]]> timethief on "Why do I have ads when I am paying NOT to have them?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-have-ads-when-i-am-paying-not-to-have-them#post-1080778 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:52:22 +0000 timethief 1080778@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, of course it is. I pay for the No-Ads Upgrade and it costs $30.00 US per blog, per year. http://en.support.wordpress.com/no-ads/

]]> waltzingmorethanmatilda on "Why do I have ads when I am paying NOT to have them?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-i-have-ads-when-i-am-paying-not-to-have-them#post-1080775 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:48:52 +0000 waltzingmorethanmatilda 1080775@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ For future reference, is it possible to only pay $30 for the $30 upgrade?

]]> macmanx on "Paid for NO ADS on my site, yet they remain." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paid-for-no-ads-on-my-site-yet-they-remain#post-1079728 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:01:06 +0000 macmanx 1079728@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome!

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