Fuuuuck you and your shitty ad placements, Gawker. (Update: it's probably adware)

"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven) 03/27/2016 at 22:19 • Filed to: None

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It’s seriously gotten out of hand.

scoob > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/27/2016 at 22:20

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Dude! Click OK! Don’t you want to win?!

TheJWT > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/27/2016 at 22:21

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Sorry we can’t all be as lucky as you, jeez

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > scoob 03/27/2016 at 22:23

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I do, but only after I complete 5 simple surveys, of which each have their own prizes that can be won by completing bronze, silver, and platinum surveys!!!

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/27/2016 at 22:24

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Gotta rake in all that extra ad revenue before the hulkster gives his final body slam

DeLM > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/27/2016 at 22:26

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kinja group is getting sued, they need all the money they can get, thank gawker

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > DeLM 03/27/2016 at 22:29

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Hahaha kinja group

SonorousSpeedJoe > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/27/2016 at 22:30

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I’ve never come across something like that on Gawker Media while browsing on mobile, LOL.

Have you tried Private Browsing in Firefox with Tracking Protection enabled? It’s a little slower than Chrome (at least on Android), but it cleans up Kinja pretty nicely.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > SonorousSpeedJoe 03/27/2016 at 22:30

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Literally all I did was scroll the page and it popped up.

TheLOUDMUSIC- Put it in H! > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/27/2016 at 22:32

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Does iOS have Firefox? ‘Cause I installed adblock on my mobile firefox.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > TheLOUDMUSIC- Put it in H! 03/27/2016 at 22:36

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I’m sure it does, but I use chrome exclusively since I need my bookmarks. I've no clue if Firefox does that

TheLOUDMUSIC- Put it in H! > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/27/2016 at 22:39

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You can usually transfer everything.

Zibodiz > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/27/2016 at 22:52

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There’s a chance you might have malware on your device. I’ve never seen an ad like that on any of my devices.

SonorousSpeedJoe > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/27/2016 at 23:01

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Yeah, that’s weird. Try Firefox if you haven’t already.

PS9 > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/27/2016 at 23:55

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Its not gawker, it’s malware. They targeted you as a frequent visitor of gawker and used your IP to figure out what mobile ISP you use. The whole gawker and amazon bit is just there to convince you how legit they are about giving you a free iDevice, once you’ve given them you name, social, date of birth, address and bank account/credit card numbers.

Patrick George > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/28/2016 at 00:00

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Hey, that shouldn't happen. Send me an email with your browser and OS info? I'll get this fixed. Thanks!

Connqr > TheLOUDMUSIC- Put it in H! 03/28/2016 at 00:23

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It doesn’t, I used to have an I phone and remember that Firefox was not available. (PS I switched to Android, I like It better and I am actually posting this from mobile Firefox.

Connqr > Patrick George 03/28/2016 at 00:26

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Wait, Jalopnik authors visit Oppo? And Convicts too? (Just kidding, no one really counts a BS speeding jail time offender as a con)

Stef Schrader > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/28/2016 at 01:05

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That looks like a bad ad or possibly malware. Definitely let the tech side know—that 10000% looks like a scam to me.

help@gawker.com, IIRC, is the address that handles ad issues like this.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Patrick George 03/28/2016 at 03:09

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I’ll try to get it through in the morning! I'll set a reminder.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > PS9 03/28/2016 at 03:15

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I’m actually quite aware of these types of schemes, but usually through ads.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Stef Schrader 03/28/2016 at 03:17

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Patrick’s actually stepped in requesting me to email him, so I’ll be fulfilling his request.

I’m thinking this might be adware though.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Zibodiz 03/28/2016 at 03:18

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No malware here. If there was malware on my iPhone I feel like I'd know.

Stef Schrader > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 03/28/2016 at 11:40

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Glad to hear. That’s a creepy looking thing.

(And d’oh—I think I should’ve typed helpdesk@gawker.com. That’s what I get for not looking it up, I guess.)