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The page on the site ru.stackoverflow.com is going crazy!
After visiting any question this happens:
I tried to open the site on different browsers (Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge) - it did not help. I'm using Windows 10.
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Weird scrollbar on "Report this Ad" popup
The "Report Ad" popup has a weird and disabled scrollbar on the right side:
Windows 10, Firefox 94.0.2 (64-bit)
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Ad banner in side menu may overflow the page
The ad in the side menu sometimes is the same size of the top banner ad (in that case, 729px x 90px). I managed to reproduce this a few times on the Home page and on the question page.
Browser 1: ...
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Empty leaderboard style ad
I recently joined a new site, so I get the joy of seeing ads again.
This add struck me as odd
Inspecting the page also revealed no hint of any actual add container being present.
The HTML of the page ...
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Ads on Android open regardless of whether I touch them
I have a problem which I encounter only on Stack Exchange group sites (although it can be my phone's problem).
The problem is: I don't tap on the ad, but it still opens. I want to drag my finger to ...
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A claim in the Facebook Ad for Teams is not factually correct
The following ad campaign went live on Facebook today:
Text:
Stack Overflow for Teams has been named the leader in G2 Crowd’s Knowledge Management category again this winter. Thanks to all of our ...
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Question's first two line and the upvote arrow are clamped
It looks like this, with upvote arrow and some content hidden
while the markdown is this:
I am using Safari 12.1.1. No ad-blocker and with Ghostery, got the same results. Refreshing it ...
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Non-tech ad on Stack Exchange site?
I clicked on a Stack Exchange ad on Facebook and saw this:
I have used SE for many years, and I have never seen such a non-tech add...
Is this something my ISP injected? Maybe Facebook did it? If so, ...
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Microsoft Azure advertisement breaks the back button behaviour
There is a Microsoft Azure banner style advertisement (present on several sites, targeted to Dutch speaking users it appears) that breaks the behaviour of the back button. It adds the page URL to your ...
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Make it clear that advertisements are "official" and not spam or part of the answer
Today I saw this, and on first glance it looked as if the advertisement was part of the answer:
On first glance it's not trivial to spot it's not part of the answer, and the small Like/Dislike ...
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Mobile web missing ads
Wow, margin! (between the comment section and the answer section)
The screenshot is taken from Ask Ubuntu and it's actually the same on all sites where I don't have 200 reputation.
Is advertisement ...
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Ads on Stack Overflow in Portuguese and Stack Overflow in Spanish are blank
Stack Overflow in Portuguese and Stack Overflow in Spanish have an issue with displaying ads: only a blank space is shown there where an ad should be.
Here is a screenshot for Stack Overflow in ...
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Reduce ads privilege is not shown on some sites
On some sites of network page "Reduce Ads" is not shown on the list (~/help/privileges) page. Also page with privilege (~/help/privileges/reduced-ads) is absent and redirects me to privilege list (~/...
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Advert showing some markup/not rendering correctly
Running the latest version of Chrome, on a recent version of Windows.
Seems to only happen on Stack Overflow, not too sure about that though as the other sites don't seem to show that advert to me.
I'...
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502 Bad Gateway instead of ad banners
I've seen a few times that the ads/banners are getting a 502 error:
502 Bad Gateway - nginx/1.11.6
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 502 (Bad Gateway)
It works after ...
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The “Unable to verify link” got mixed content warning and borked favicon
Stack Exchange use their own advertisement redirection mechanism for various advertisements. When something there goes wrong, they show a friendly error page.
Link to reproduce.
As you can see, the ...
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Top banner ad makes page jump
There is a usability problem when you visit a site on which ads are being served. The top banner ad doesn't render immediately, and then when it does, it causes the rest of the page below it to jump ...
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Choose to see reduced ads or not
I understand a lot of people really dislike ads and are happy to have the reduced ads privilege at 200 reputation.
Personally I've really come to appreciate SO, and in support I don't mind seeing ads ...
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Please don't stretch the old community ads!
So the sidebar got stretched by about 30%. No problem. This entails a change to the network-provided ads (not visible above certain rep thresholds) and to the community ads. No problem. Some old ads ...
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Community ads filesize "cannot exceed 40KB": Difficult with new bigger ads + High DPI (retina)
The filesize limit used to be 150 KB, now for some reason it is only 40 KB.
To make the problem worse:
Ads are now bigger (300x250 instead of 220x250, 36% more pixels)
High DPI (aka retina) means 4 ...
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Stats page squishes ads to the old 220px width
Note: I've already mentioned this issue in a comment on Meta.CodeReview, but I thought I'd document it here on the main Stack Exchange meta.
I love the new 300px community ads format.
Problem is, ...
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Area 51 Share Links aren't updated
The Area 51 ads shouldn't really look like that. It seems like the image is cropped, changing the sizes in the HTML code won't exactly fix it.
Even resizing doesn't work:
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Hide applied job offers
Can the job ads from careers on Stackoverflow be hidden for jobs which are applied already?
I have applied to jobs but still I'm seeing those same job ads. Can this be done?
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Chemistry.SE ad barely readable due to bad color contrast [closed]
Today, I noticed this Chemistry.SE ad on Programmers.SE:
I find that this combination of dark blue text on a dark green background very hard to read (and the white shadow doesn't really improve the ...
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Ban ImageShack images because they are reusing old URLs for advertising
There's a very popular topic on Stack Overflow's Meta asking to Ban ImageShack Images. This was created because ImageShack deletes old images to free up server space, making images within older posts ...
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Sometimes a SyntaxError is logged to console while viewing questions on Stack Overflow
I am not sure if it is related to the Stack Exchange network, but the Developer Tools in Chrome sometimes log an Uncaught SyntaxError: JSON.parse while viewing questions on Stack Overflow. The ...
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Typo in ad for Braintree
This ad has surfaced on SO.
The drone is a Parrot Bebop Drone instead of bepop.
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Rendering problem with targeted job (ie, "Looking for a job?") block
The new targeted job ad block shows HTML entities rather than their evaluated content for some ads:
It seems the problem is isolated to Dubai, United Arab Emirates:
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Basic click stats link in community promotion ads post is incorrect
The following question recently appeared on Ask Ubuntu Meta:
Community Promotion Ads - 2015
Notice that the question ID is 12379.
The following Markdown snippet appears at the bottom of the ...
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What if I don't want to work at "Rochester Institute of�"?
As I was closing terrible questions, I noticed something strange in the Careers ad:
There appears to be an encoding problem. I'm not sure what is supposed to be there, but it shows � instead.
More ...
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Should I report broken ads?
I just saw the following ad on StackOverflow:
It looked interesting, so I clicked on it and got a 404:
It looked like one of those "support-community-open-source-projects" ads, so I felt like I ...
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Confusing placement of popular network question above related questions in the sidebar
Recently at Crypto.SE
image source
To be sure the problem is clear: all the questions underneath the “Related” headline are crypto questions, related to the question I was viewing. They are not ...
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Inconsistent careers ad behavior
When viewing question page as anonymous visitor or low rep user, we are presented with advertisements on top of the page. All is good.
90% of those ads belong to Careers, which is also good.
90% of ...
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Adzerk ads loaded insecurely on some SE sites
While answering this question, I noticed that I get the following warnings about blocked insecure active content while viewing math.SE over HTTPS:
The first warning, about MathJax, is a known ...
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Oy! Animated ads!
Stack Overflow delivered a little piece of coal to me, today (or I noticed it for the first time today). Animated GIFs as ads. Like, the old-school, flashy-flashy kind:
Here are two deanimated frames:...
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HTML from advertisement not rendered correctly
I have many times found CSS written on my screen besides images from Stack OverFlow.
It is associated with the advert from Rackspace
Here is a screenshot:
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"Only secure content is displayed" appears on some pages in IE11
Sometimes when I navigate to a page in Stack Overflow, Internet Explorer will warn that "Only secure content is displayed." The only HTTPS requests logged in Developer Tools are to
www.gravatar.com (...
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Open-source ads: are they really displayed on Stackoverflow?
I may be wrong, but it looks to me that community-upvoted advertisements of open-source projects are never displayed on Stackoverflow site. At least, I don't remember seeing any of these ads on the ...
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Bug with ads on Stack Overflow
I noticed a bug/problem with a certain type of ad that appears on Stack Overflow. This occurs on Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer, but I am not sure of any others.
Here are two different ...
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Link direct to advertisement broken
I would like to receive some information about advertising on Stack Overflow--the link located at the bottom of the page is not currently working.
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Ad style sheet bleeding into main page
Exhibit A:
Normally the “Add Comment” button is dark grey, not orange. The orange button only seems to appear with the particular advertisement next to it. Reloading the page with a different ...
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Hi-res pic found its way into Careers sidebar ad
I just noticed a sidebar advert in Careers loading super-slowly - suspect it is because it's a 3508 x 2480 px JPEG! Can a techie fix please? :-)
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Invisible advert not quite invisible
See the image below:
This is in chrome, using the developer console (F12) to highlight a div that has only display:none child elements and a 0x0 image, but is being shown.
The reason I found this is ...
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Blank space in Kendo UI [duplicate]
When clicking on the Kendo UI tag, it just shows a big blank div:
Is this a bug?
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banner: x2665 Your Job
About this banner:
&x2665; on a black background will render nothing. (black heart on black background)
Wouldn't it be 'nicer' to be replaced with &x2661; (white heart) ?
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Is sponsor ad expired for excel tag? If yes then remove the free space
It's look like sponsorship on tag excel is expired. So the advertisement is removed. But the space is not removed.
Before few days (or may be till 31st Dec. 2012) the advertisement was like this:
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Empty space at the top of the windows-phone-7 tage page
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/windows-phone-7
Reproduced on Chrome and Firefox (no AdBlock)
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Can we remove the Stack Store ad (or bring back the store)?
I'm assuming that this is a network wide ad:
as it's not in the Community ads meta post over at Super User. Can we make sure this ad doesn't show up. I got really excited thinking you brought it ...
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What should you do when you see a posting on Careers and you know the employer is blatantly lying?
What should you do if you see a posting on Careers and you know the employer is blatantly lying about their organization?
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Is it possible to remove the Careers banner with the dying starfish?
Is it possible to remove the annoying ad with the dying starfish?
Certainly, this is not what my career should feel like.
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