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A thousand times yes.

Even better, stick with Firefox and add NoScript (among other things) to that mandatory ABP. The combination means that you don't have to put up with any crap, including stuff per the OP, Google's ads and other garbage, or anything else at all.

Ah, peace.

Hate to be all Moral Mary, but using adblockers hurt sites like TESNexus since they depend on ad revenues to keep going. Though I admit it's hard to justify when ads are so easily compromised by trojans, but we shouldn't take for granted having free access to such a gigantic archive of files. Actually, I even blocked one of their banners myself once I noticed that it was slowing down my browser to a crawl...

I selectively disable ABP (but not ever NS) when I believe a site has earned that. There are very few indeed on that list right now, but I'm open to future possibilities.

To each their own. I would still throughly recommend FF with ABP and NS to anyone who cares in the first place. Many don't, and fair enough. I think it's important enough, but perhaps I'm in a minority there. Oh well.

And yes, there might be those who believe every site out there "deserves" to be able to flood their browser with ads and other clutter/rubbish (which most will ignore, as much as that is possible, anyhow...) - more power to them! They're still free to enjoy that experience, and not click on the ads whose existence is apparently so vital... for whatever reason they favour...

This. This is why I don't disable the ads. Sites like Nexus depend on them for a portion of their revenue to do things like pay for the site to keep running and hosting all those mods we love and need. I even visit a few each week to make sure they get the change. LOL

Yes they're irritating but they do serve a purpose. :foodndrink: and thinks for the link DarkOne. I missed it.

From Google:

I agree with you on a moral standpoint, disagree on a practical standpoint. The vast majority of ads are incredibly unsightly, flash ads are stupidly resource hungry, and they can carry malware
However, I totally whitelist sites I visit often.

I used to not block them on sites I visited often (like Nexus) but once they started allowing those annoying sound files that crank up the volume 10 times higher than your speakers are already set to play at - I quickly changed that policy -- the ad servers really need to do a better job of policing the ads they allow to be placed on the server so that users can allow the ads to be displayed without totally interfering and they should be ensuring that no ads are allowed to be served that haven't been properly checked to ensure there is no malware embedded in them ( you'd think they would have to be approved by the ad server site before they are passed out to the various sites that display them to avoid these type of situations !!)

Personally I'd prefer it if people took a reactive response to ads on sites. If you think an ad is too unsightly (hello flashing "you're the millionth visitor, you've won a prize" ads) or it starts audio without you clicking anything then by all means block that ad, but don't block the entire element from ever showing ads; you're simply damaging my means to keep the site running financially. Baring in mind the sites now cost around $33,000/year to keep going, every penny counts

I very rarely click ads on sites; I normally click some ads for off-the-shelf games that look interesting that I haven't heard of, but advertising isn't just about the click-through, it's about brand recognition. There's a reason why I know Pampers is a brand of nappy even though I've never had a child and that's valuable to a company irrespective of whether I click through on to their site and buy stuff or not.

I will sing the praises of noscript, however. It's a great little tool when you use it on the "ask me first" setting. That way you can turn on all the necessary scripts on your favourite sites and insure malicious scripts first get inspected by you. Very handy. Just make sure you don't block all the AJAX on the Nexus sites as it will stop you from leaving comments, among other stuff.

So, I went to this site not even 30 minutes ago. And I got the warning saying "This site as been marked as an attack site" or something along those lines. Freaked me out, so I quickly got out of there, and scanned my computer. I'm using both Microsoft Security Essentials and the Premium version of Malwarebytes. And it didn't find anything. Just built this computer a couple weeks ago, and still new when it comes to computers, so I've been paranoid about everything, making sure to have Firefox Noscript and WOT (Web of Trust) for the add-ons installed.


I shouldn't have a virus on my computer, right?

Dark,

I thought you only got the revenue if the visitor actually clicked on the ad though. Or is it that you get a bonus if the visitor actually clicks on the ad? Just curious - I have no idea how these things work.

There are three major types of ad revenue dynamics:

• Cost Per Mille (CPM) which is a set amount of money per thousand ads shown
  
• Cost Per Click (CPC) which is a set amount of money per click of an ad (clicking the same ad multiple times within 24 hours won't increase revenue)
  
• Cost Per Action (CPA) which is a variable amount of money for a user clicking on the ad and then performing an action on the advertiser's site, such as buying a product or signing up for a newsletter or survey

Around 90% of the ads shown on the Nexus sites are CPM and ergo blocking ads, irrespective of whether you click the ad or not, stops the sites earning money.

Thanks for clearing that up. I'll stop blocking your ads then Unless they're super invasive...

DarkOne - While you are hovering, can you have someone take a close look at this one .....

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34800

OBMMv2 - Self installer, needs .net, comments not allowed, endorsemants not allowed, uploader joined today, its already at v2.1.... whatever - Seems very unlikely and a nice shiny attraction.

Considering the development of OBMMex why would anyone go with another re-invent of the wheel.

Edit: sorry if I bring more bad tidings, managing the site must be a nightmare recently.

Edit2: Is it possible to give a new uploader a probation period, so much control over what they do not allow prevents the community warning others. Only when they are trusted they then get the extra features?

Edit3: Site error - Cool, the DarkOne has heard :foodndrink:

Well I am still getting the error atm I would think it would be gone

I believe it is now up to Google to remove the warning. I have been there just a few moments ago and DL'd a couple mods/patches with no problems.

I'm still getting the warning too. Here's the http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-GB&site=http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/ I got. I bypass it and still visit the site, but you wonder when it's going to get cleared up.

Yeah, I saw that and I was a little worried. But I figured it wasn't that bad, since the forum was working and all.

As for viruses, I really hate it when people do that.

Glad that DarkOne took care of it.

Also, $33,000 a year? Owww!

There, that should help.

Rahu X, it's taking awhile for Google to fix the problem. That's the only problem left.

Huh. It's telling me that I can't visit TES Nexus now, because it http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.fallout3nexus.com/images/global/icon.gif&client=googlechrome&hl=en-US

And from what's showing in that report, seems like there's still some cleaning to be done.

So it looks like this is almost over now. I just wish TES Nexus would stop blaming people because they're on the other side of the world.

What are you talking about, The Greatness?
TES nexus isn't blaming anyone. It's a website.

But uh, DarkOne isn't blaming anyone.
Yeah, I know people on the forum topic are saying "DarkOne, sue them!" but uh, at least DarkOne knows that would be bad.

I reckon it's about the statement that "the wicked people are normally form Eastern Europe and Asia" which is a bit clumsy at the least, but shouldn't be taken out of context.

95% of the sites hack attempts come from Slovakia, the Ukraine, the Middle-East, Russia and China. That would be Eastern Europe and Asia, then...

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As an update Google have removed the warning on Fallout 3 Nexus but have yet to remove the warning off TESNexus despite it being almost a day now.

Their system is extremely slow and clumsy; Google search was reporting TESNexus as a malware site but their Webmaster Tools (where you ask for a review of the report) was reporting the site was completely clean. 3 hours later, way after I'd fixed the issue, the Webmaster Tools finally acknowledged there was a problem but provided no link to ask for a review. 2 hours later the link popped up without warning. It took them 4 hours to review the malware and they have reported back saying the site is now clean. It's now been a good 12 hours since that last report and the site still hasn't been taken off the blacklist.

It's quite a frustrating system.

yes i agree, it's just really annoying at the moment, because clicking on any links from google to tesnexus blocks you from going to the site and theres no way to continue. If you copy/paste the link into the web browser, it'll come up with the warning every time nexus is loading a new page and you have to keep clicking "ignore this warning"...

I can http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/1061/falselinknexus.png this.