Do you see pop-up ads on my blog?

A friend and I just discovered that, once in a while, a full-screen pop-up ad shows up on my WordPress blog page. Is anyone else seeing that? If so, for how long?

Any idea what could have cause this? I know that I’ve not signed up for any ad campaigns. My WordPress install is hosted on a paid server.

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20 Responses to Do you see pop-up ads on my blog?

  1. Zane says:

    According to my history I’ve been seeing it since May 29th. I had assumed it was on my end.

    A bit of research pointed me towards the use of sitemeter as a possible cause.

  2. Robin says:

    Yes, 38 seconds before returning to the blog.

  3. hilljohnny says:

    I use IE and have never had a pop-up on your blog.

  4. Jennifer says:

    I have not seen pop-ups. I am using Chrome, if that helps

  5. Rolf says:

    Yes. Every now and then yours, and several other WordPress websites have an… intermediary screen?… not exactly a pop-up, but a short “redirection” to a page, with a “you will be redirected to your site momentarily” or something like that message, with an advert of some sort. Not particularly reproducible, but annoying. not 100% sure it only WordPress sites, but that the majority of them.

  6. Tom Lamparty says:

    Linux and Firefox here, and have never seen a pop-up here!

  7. Miguel says:

    Nope….nothing here… Chrome.

  8. Bear says:

    Never a pop-up, but I’m running Pale Moon with AdBlock and NoScript.

  9. brian says:

    Not once. I’d suspect that there is some undiscovered malware/adware on computers that do get the ads.

  10. Fred says:

    I use IE, Chrome, Startpage, and Firefox – and I have NEVER seen a pop-up on your site ever.

  11. Linoge says:

    Do you use Jetpack or Cloudflare? Someone told me about something similar recently…

  12. Mich says:

    I have not seen an ad, but I have seen the same problem mentioned on other WP blogs. According to this and this, it is likely a SiteMeter issue.

  13. The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit says:

    Seamonkey, no popups, but I’m running NoScript as well. On the other hand, I will sometimes have to reload to get the Captcha letters window, and I see an “Internal server error” message in the box.

  14. J T Bolt says:

    I’ve noticed it on MY blog, using Firefox.

  15. Kristophr says:

    Your friend may have some malware on his machine.

    I have never seen a pop-up here. Linux+firefox for me.

  16. Paul Koning says:

    No problem here. I use Safari, on a Mac, with the standard popup blocking setting (which is only moderately effective).

  17. Leatherwing says:

    Yes, similar to what Rolf described. At home I use noscript and never see it. But occasionally from my work computer with Firefox, I see the described redirect.

  18. HSR47 says:

    I’ve been seeing that sporadically across a number of blogs; I have seen it alleged that sitemeter is the cause.

  19. Y. says:

    Never.

    But it’s possible the ISP is injecting ads into some people’s traffic.. there’s precedent for that kind of jerk behavior ..

    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/how-a-banner-ad-for-hs-ok/

  20. Awtha says:

    yes. on occasion. use safari. i just close the tab.

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