Ads in Text?

maiden • 6 February 2015 at 9:59 PM

After the new update of speed I have been realizing thAt so words are highlighted normally and forums and profile. But now it's spreading. I was reading a rp forum and all of a sudden after I refreshed notifications 9 underline and hover my mouse over to them and i click... next thing I know im in a survey or Kelly Blue Brook cars
three of themaren thisst right now... Guess who it's supported by infolinks that dumb pop-up ad when you log in or refresh your page at the beggining of the hour

mastergemma • 6 February 2015 at 10:00 PM

@maiden
I got those too! I was able to get rid of them by pressing...was it the + sign that pops up when you hover over it?

Well whatever it is, click it and it sends you to a page that describes what it is. at the bottom it says click here if you don't wanna see it anymore

maiden • 6 February 2015 at 10:05 PM

@mastergemma

My browser (IE) Is spportted xbox So I don't see the blocker and infolinks have 2 icons The x and the ?

mastergemma • 6 February 2015 at 10:07 PM

Try the question mark then @maiden

maiden • 6 February 2015 at 10:10 PM

Nope! It takes me straight to the Infolinks Homepage. Unless we go back to slower speed these will never go away. Wait there is something about Disable Pop up blocker below maybe that'll work@mastergemma

shelby • 6 February 2015 at 10:13 PM

@maiden
I had this happen when I came back a few days ago.
At first I thought I had somehow downloaded a random thing to my browser. But I checked and I didn't.

So I waited for it to load, clicked the little Question Mark and it will take you to a new webpage, and you just have to unsubscribe or disable it via the link on the page it takes you to.
You might have to restart your browser or just refresh the page to make it go away after you unsubscribe, but that will get rid of the popup/ad.

tetraethylammonium • 6 February 2015 at 10:23 PM

@maiden
This happened to me after the update. I was scrolling own really quickly on a page when I first realized cause a white smallish box popped up, but then I scrolled past it and I thought my computer was just being weird. The words that lead to ads are highlighted in red (like links) but underlined with a dotted line for me. If you press the x or the ? under it, it will x it out, but if you hover over the highlighted word, it will appear again.

maiden • 6 February 2015 at 10:26 PM

@shelby @tetraethylammonium

Some how Infolinks spams mine so each hour you'll get 9 of em' even if you did click I don't want to be apart of this. Sometimes for others (i don't know yet) Its daily. Mine just happens to be hourly

shelby • 6 February 2015 at 10:29 PM

@maiden

Have you possibly tried uninstalling and reinstalling your browser?
Maybe your browser just hasn't updated that you unsubscribed from Infolinks somehow.
Or clearing your cache +browsing history might work too.
(just press ctrl shift delete, in case you didn't know how)

maiden • 6 February 2015 at 10:32 PM

Err, Tried that already but I can't update it because my browser pretty much runs of my xbox xD

shelby • 6 February 2015 at 10:39 PM

@maiden
Hmm.
I'm not sure why it's still acting that way then.
Maybe it's because it runs off your xbox?
I'm not sure, but that could be a reason.

maiden • 6 February 2015 at 10:47 PM

My xbox says blocked too! @shelby

shelby • 6 February 2015 at 10:49 PM

@maiden
I honestly have no idea, then.
Have you tried looking up why it might be doing this?
Or contacting Infolinks directly via email.
That might be what you'll have to do.

maiden • 6 February 2015 at 10:52 PM

Ifolns just contacted and ai they said theyre unable to block it. Woo hoo .-.

beckah-lula • 7 February 2015 at 11:07 AM

@maiden
I get those too, except I'm always on my phone, so I can't 'hover over' the ads, but they are red with a dotted line under them, sometimes if I'm on a page for a while, if I try to scroll up or down it automatically opens the pop-up Box then takes me off of eggcave to another site? So annoying right now :/

Orderedchaos • 7 February 2015 at 6:05 PM

If you are encountering problems with certain ads please send in a ticket about them. Make sure to include the destination url of the ad and/or a screenshot of it. Ian has the ability to remove ads from the site, and if ads are appearing in places where ads shouldn't then that is something that should be looked into.

furfur • 8 February 2015 at 11:48 AM

@Maiden

Wait... did you mention it saying something about InfoLinks? Like you see a word and its randomly a highlighted link and it makes a popup when you hover your mouse over it? Does it happen on other sites as well? If so then that is not Egg Cave, its a virus.

Try reading this:
http://malwaretips.com/blogs/infolinks-popup-virus/

I had to remove a virus like it from a friends computer before.

lykhaos117 • 8 February 2015 at 1:04 PM

@furfur

It's only on Egg Cave. ☹️

If you're not having the problem, is there anything we can do?

darcy_vasquez • 8 February 2015 at 1:22 PM

@lykhaos117

It appears below the cave, too. When you try to steal an egg, it opens that infolinks, the ones that appear on my PC are Facebook only. They're starting to be bothersome..

valkeyrie • 11 February 2015 at 8:51 AM

@maiden

Hi everyone, you should definitely check out that link @furfur posted. Infolinks has been integrated voluntarily (I can only assume) by Egg Cave.

I personally find them incredibly annoying and I keep accidentally clicking on things when I hover and the little window thingy pops up. I don't mind sidebar ads. After all, how are our beloved staff going to run the website with no money, but infolinks is very invasive and I actually stopped playing for about a week because I just didn't want to deal with yet another computer thing.

Anyone else think the same, or am I just getting to be a crotchety old woman?

vampitch • 14 March 2015 at 4:51 AM

@valkeyrie I totally agree with you, I find them utterly annoying.

I was on my way to start my own topic to complain about it just now, but I guess here is fine. 😊
No it doesn't happen on any other website. Yes I clicked the infolink question mark and disabled them from their own website repeatedly. No I don't have any unknown software or extensions installed. (I checked right now.)
I read the article but I honestly believe it's not about us but about egg cave. And my presence on this website has decreased greatly because I can't change it and it's interfering with my happy time on here.

ok I see now we can send in a ticket about it..... hopefully we can do something about it

valkeyrie • 16 March 2015 at 8:33 PM

@vampitch

Ugh, exactly. I have a huge amount of respect for the EC staff and what they do, but this is just not on. I keep clicking on them by accident, they get in the way, and I'm at a stage in my life right now where (this is going to sound really drama-queen-y), but these small things happening on a regular basis just make my day that much more stressful.
I actually went on an indefinite hiatus from Egg Cave for a number of reasons, but I'm glad I won't have to deal with these yeeping infolinks anymore. Advertisements are understandable, they're the site's only source of income outside Cave Cash, but setting it up in a way that makes the gaming experience actually unpleasant seems counter-productive to me.

Just a thought.