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Intrusive Advertisements Resolved

August 29, 2016 at 11:58 AM

INTRUSIVE ADS RESOLVED - About two weeks ago, we began working with a new ad partner. As it turns out, they were very dishonest about their practices and were the culprit of the many intrusive advertisements that you may have received while browsing Egg Cave over the last two weeks. We have ended our relationship with them immediately and their intrusive advertisements have been removed.

At this time, we would like to clarify our position on advertisements. Advertisements are on Egg Cave to support the funding of our web servers, artists, and programmers that produce creatures and new content. In no way do we want for these advertisements to interfere with the experience of our users, nor do we ever want for Ark to be taken over by intrusive, inappropriate advertisements. Under no circumstances should "redirection advertisements" be appearing on Egg Cave — we do not approve ads of these kinds. Should you ever receive one, report it immediately. Ads have their place but they shouldn't take over our community. Egg Cave's community comes first.

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We're protecting the magic of Egg Cave and its world.


In terms of security, we are very confident that your passwords, email addresses, and any personal information stored at Egg Cave were NOT compromised and ARE SAFE. Know that Egg Cave does not store any of your financial data (i.e. credit card numbers) for those of you who are Cash Shop customers. As a basic security precaution, however, we encourage users to update their passwords here: https://eggcave.com/prefs/changepw. Beyond that, no action is necessary.

With regards to the actual content (i.e. what you saw) on these various advertisements, you can safely disregard their claims as false. For example, if you saw an advertisement that said "you're infected!" this was a scare tactic.

Egg Cave is now free from these intrusive advertisements. Egg Cave is committed to a safe gaming experience for all, including our younger users too. Enjoy and have fun!

Comments: 22

shrimp • 29 Aug 2016, 12:03 PM

Yay! 😸

ethereality • 29 Aug 2016, 12:04 PM

YES THANKS EGGCAVE YOUR AWESOME

Ian • 29 Aug 2016, 12:20 PM

So glad! 😊

Ian • 29 Aug 2016, 12:23 PM

@motivecat no, you're awesome. ;D

ethereality • 29 Aug 2016, 12:24 PM

@Ian Haha thanks ❤️ but u guys rlly are awesome 😋

lykhaos117 • 29 Aug 2016, 1:37 PM

Yay!!! Thank you, Egg Cave! ❤️❤️❤️

raccoon • 29 Aug 2016, 1:56 PM

Thank you Eggcave team! I'm glad to know that you guys listen to our complaints and strive to make the site as great as it can be. 😊

lucas • 29 Aug 2016, 2:02 PM

Thanks a lot! 😊

Ian • 29 Aug 2016, 3:08 PM

@lucas @raccoon yay! welcome!

fakeworld • 29 Aug 2016, 3:19 PM

Honestly, this is exciting. Glad to see that you guys care ❤️

lailaluckyseal87 • 29 Aug 2016, 3:34 PM

@Ian Thank you SOOO much! I couldn't stay on EC for 20 seconds yesterday on my phone in the car because the ads kept popping up!!!

Ian • 29 Aug 2016, 3:37 PM

@lailaluckyseal87 yikes! Better now. 😊

lailaluckyseal87 • 29 Aug 2016, 3:43 PM

@Ian 😊 Thankfully I was smart enough to not click anything and just X out, or else I would have gotten a virus on my moms phone and mine :l

nightmare • 29 Aug 2016, 4:03 PM

@ian I got a popup an hour ago, are these intrusive?

polaroid • 29 Aug 2016, 4:15 PM

Thanks EggCave! 😊

Ian • 29 Aug 2016, 4:22 PM

@nightmare you shouldn't be receiving this. Try clearing your browser's temporary files, cookies, and cache. Then lmk if happens again

Ian • 29 Aug 2016, 4:22 PM

@lailaluckyseal87 as long as you didn't click anything, you're fine!

sparklefox • 29 Aug 2016, 4:45 PM

Thank you!

sek • 29 Aug 2016, 11:03 PM

Thanks 😊 😃 @Ian

cguo7 • 30 Aug 2016, 2:21 AM

Thank you!❤️ //sigh// I'm so glad to hear about the security thing! 😋

Ian • 31 Aug 2016, 5:01 PM

@sek @cguo7 @sparklefox you're so welcome ❤️

cguo7 • 2 Sep 2016, 3:54 AM

Strange, I see some ads again.... especially at the end of the pages.

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