BLOCKING ADS? WELL PLAYED...

A site home page wouldn't be a "content" page.

Huffington Post's top-level "Tech News" page isn't a content page either - just showing current headlines and photos.

A Huffington Post news story on Amazon IS a content page.

Well, that's how the world ought to be, not how it is.

In a perfect world, there are no ads either, since everyone perfectly knows which company is selling which product with which specifications, and is not influenced by propaganda. Yet, there are ads.

But ok, I will turn ad blockers off when ads disappear.

Thanks so much for clarifying.

I am a software engineer, proficient in web development. I know what I'm talking about. Although I have never used ad programs such as AdSense. Simply because the clients I (have to) work for live off selling their own (material) products. If you know what I mean. They aren't publishing content. They are classical businesses which are focused on selling their product/service - that's their income source. So monetizing though ads may deter their customers and appear unprofessional. After all it would make the impression that they have trouble paying for the operational costs and/or are cheapskates who may also save money everywhere else, deliver poor product/service and bad support, if any at all - nobody wants to deal with such a company!

Nonetheless, if I owned a page like chess.com, I'm not sure I would want to deface the home page by allowing all kinds of intrusive ads be displayed on it. I'm not saying chess.com does, in fact, I can't spot any ad on their home page.

Hey SkepticGuy, I see chess.com is serving up malware today.

As a follow-up...I upgraded to gold membership. But thanks to this experience I am still using ad blocker software. It makes the whole web better, it just took my interest in chess.com for me to become aware and notice.

Chess.com: I took Gold membership for access to "Tactics Trainer". This is a fantastic tool. Well worth the money. Many Thanks. And of course all the other stuff is nice.

Happy End! :)

I thought about upgrading so I can do more puzzles in the tactics trainer, but I fear that I'll be spending too much time on this site. I can easily waste the day sitting at this computer when I really need to get off my ass because I have a lot of work that needs to be done, I should be doing it now but I need to get some sleep in about 5 minutes. So if it's not one thing it's another.

I think the free membership is perfect. I come on, check to see if I have any moves, do my 3 free puzzles, check 1 or 2 threads I commented on, then go away. Should spend no more than 20 minutes to do all that.

In the news today I'm reading the Google ad network has been serving up some exploits on various websites.  Has chess.com been effected?

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2014/09/large-malvertising-campaign-under-way-involving-doubleclick-and-zedo/

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Nice Try!

Thanks for playing.

Another article about the malvertising attack:

https://www.securityweek.com/popular-english-language-israeli-news-sites-hit-malvertising-attack

The bottom line is that it's not an attack in itself. It's an attack on (your) stupidity.

It takes a pretty dumb guy to click and run something that's a) not signed and b) would almost certainly be detected by any "antivirus" software, even the windows built-in one.

I'm not sure about this attack, but there was another recent malvertising attack where you didn't even have to click on anything to get hit. All the malware needed was for you to have the wrong software enabled in your browser.

My guess is quite possibly, since I believe this site uses doubleclick.net.

Not quite but Google AdSense.

That is the point of adblockers, to block third party ads.  Websites like to farm out the advertising to third parties because it's much much easier but much shittier for the user.  There are websites that do host their own non-intrusive ads that I frequent and I don't bother to block those ads.

I'm old enough to remember when cable tv didn't have commercials.

I never did get internet memes. They never made any sense to me.

You need to understand where the memes in question originated from first, and how well they have been used at the topic at hand in order to get any lolz from them. And what does this have to do with blocking ads, anyway? Unless if you're trolling, then that's understandable.

There was a meme on the second page.