Normally I don’t get ads . Today some weird blade add is hammering me when I log in and temporarily freezes my phone . Started today after years of not being bothered and only when I log in to the game .Something new y’all may have changed ?
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Normally I don’t get ads . Today some weird blade add is hammering me when I log in and temporarily freezes my phone . Started today after years of not being bothered and only when I log in to the game .Something new y’all may have changed ?
They put up a anti-adblock feauture the other day.
What do you mean anti ad block feature?
Like that stupid thing BS had?
Also wonderful how they implement anti ad block features despite a solid year of people complaining about malicious ads and their wasting time on bull**** alternative income streams like merchandise and apparel.
Race to beat DylanC continues
Well for there was a white page only when I run noscript. Some text making suggestions what might gone wrong. When I allowed everything I got back into Utopia.
Now it’s a amazon add high jacking . Come on guys . Hard to even attack now when these ads I’ve never had in years are doing this. For 2 days now this has went on .
Game is now 100% unplayable on mobile. Any text box you click on triggers amazon hijack
I'm experiencing a stuttering screen when the ads are visible. In order to prevent this from happening I'm forced to expand my screen. Still it has caught me in a few detrimental incidences:
1. I accidentally built WT instead of Uni's.
2. It leaped when I was trying to only train a select number of specs and maxed out my income training thieves. so all my reserve gold was gone.
I've bern getting randomed hard from apparent multis and these things make this a major challenge.
Also, I bought ad blocking but the ad bar blinks in and out just as it did before I purchased ad blocking.
Well atleast it isnt just me then sadly. It seems to have got better today but still had it happen once.
As blocking purchase doesn’t even stop the adds or Amazon hijacks.
Removes top banner but still get the banners that make the phone spaz. Still get amazon hijack few times a day. Far down from every page though.
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They havnt been awful, mayb 1 per day but today i cant b in game for more then 10 seconds and then game blocked by ads! Its super repetitive and non stop now. Literally every tine i login i get 10 seconds b4 amazon hi jacks my page... last age it was facebook hi jacking but it is definitely detering
Yea its still going on, even sent them screenshots after they worked on blockers. its not as bad but its still going on
Hi after never having ads, today i log in to find a large ad for a ballet company taking up my entire screen,i cannot post anything in my kingdom forum as soon as i try the Ad covers it.
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Just tried to send mail to another Kingdom,the Ad stops me doing that also.
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I had that same issue just now (unable to send a pm ingame- Unselectable white space where the message box should be). Disabling and re-enabling my adblocker (uBlock) fixed it though.
It also got rid of the annoying hair product ad that suddenly started appearing.
But then I remember I had some credits.
You currently have advertisements blocked until Fri, 30 Mar.
For 2 days a malware "ad" takes over my browser. It does it in Chrome, and Firefox.
The entire window is red with white text, A smaller popup says it has control of my computer and is from Microsoft Support with an 855 area code.
I have to hit alt, ctrl, delete; to bring up task manager to get rid of the window. It wont close by normal means.
I am sure its fishing for money but I have not read the entire message.
Whatever they have went to needs to be corrected somehow . The time table of when these ads started is posted in multiple threads. Sadly I haven’t seen a lot changing on them going away.
Yeah, this is kind of bull. I can't use the forums because of these ads. I mean I can't use them even WITHOUT running an adblocker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thunder TA
I don't care about the ads themselves. I care about the fact that I can't use my forums anymore. I have to constantly reload my page then spam the ESC button and hope it catches before the ads load; otherwise the forum text-box is broken....in which case I'm not seeing the ads anyway.
I get that you're trying to subvert ad-blockers, but you need to accept that ad-blockers work on the client side and anything you do, people will find a way to subvert. It's a war you can't win. In the meantime, you're causing playability issues for everybody, adblockers or not.
I can't even click on the menu options in game because the ads have been causing the cursor to think it's trying to move instead of hyperlink.Quote:
Originally Posted by Caelum
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Originally Posted by HowYaDoin
Yup, nothing but problems.
I've liked most things the current devs have done, but this is egregious and will drive people away. I get that you don't like ad blockers, but it's a fact of life now.
If this stuff isn't fixed, I will personally write a greasemonkey script customized for utopia-game.com to wipe these ads off the face of the planet and distribute it. It may be easy to combat ad-block, but when it's custom fit for your your site that's another story. The alternative of course is to simply stop your ads from breaking the rest of your site. I would assume that is better than watching as players dwindle and the ads don't get seen anyway.
it disabled my in game forum, mail too..i reported it in discord too. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by HowYaDoin
Sadly weve been reporting it for weeks. Still effecting my phone log ins
I think it's advertising related. Since a few weeks? whenever I go on mobile (standard Chrome, Android) the screen jumps constantly whenever I try to scroll or click on something. Only happens on Utopia.
I don't use ingame adblock (and of course no Chrome adblock since it's not even supported on mobile).
Very annoying, certainly when you're in a hurry to hit before tick or have to train/build.
Same issue ive been having on phone Nim. David redid adblocks on account. Still not really helping fully.What i have started doing was changing screen size on phone and it will go away till i switch screens but if i dont do that quickly it will at time hijack the game
Still not a word.
This is so disappointing, because I've been so happy with the new team up until now.
The proper response to this in any other business would be to pull the ads until they're fixed if they can't be fixed right away.
The game-breaking issues that have been happening lately combined with the total lack of acknowledgements are unsettling. I just went into vacation mode for the first time in probably 4 years. Primarily because of the doldrums my kingdom is currently stuck in while I leave town for a few days...but normally I'd just go less-active and use my phone. With the state of things, I just said screw it and activated vacation. This is a sign to me that I'm growing tired of the problems, and am considering leaving for good because the game has begun to turn into a chore.
If these issues at the very least can't be addressed soon, I'll probably hang my hat.
Not content with the ads that stop you using the forums and PM's, the malware ads are back again. This is a real concern as you can block individual sites on pc but not on a tablet or phone.
What is being done and how can you track these add campaign down
Yea thats still where im having issues, same as when it started. Doesnt seem to get much replies. I even sent screen shots in as i was asked to weeks ago with nothing back.
Still not even a comment about this.
Even a "Sorry we're looking into this" would be nice.
EOA is Friday...I won't be returning.
Why is this still happening?
The new "What is Brain Health" ad blocks the body box for forum posts/replies
Ok I managed to find something that helped, with zero input from GameAdmin.
Not sure if it fixes everything but it does fix the malware one. Reset your google advertising id.
But the forum and pm blocking ads are back again and they wreck the game.
The ones i was getting finally went away