The new ad on the front page is ran through ecmprocks which is associated with malware according to http://easyviruskilling.com/how-to-remove-ecpmrocks-com-redirect-virus-guide/
Googling for "ecmprocks" gives you a list of similar results implying that ecmprocks is an advertising network used by malware authors to earn money and spread their malware.
>ecpmrocks.com is distinguished as a potentially unwanted advertising platform that came out recently for unknown purpose. It has been reported that ecpmrocks.com is a malicious one that may cause unauthorized redirections on browsers
http://fixwindowspconline.com/ecpmrocks-com-removal/
The ad on the front page appears to function by using Javascript to build a script tag that loads in Javascript from ecmprocks, which is a common tactic used by sketchy ad networks to allow them and their clients to run Javascript on the site displaying the ad. This allows for malware distributors to use Javascript within the ad to spread malware, and so using this type of ad network puts 4chan users at risk.
Non-invasive ads should never run Javascript from a third-party. Note that the existing advertising system 4chan has properly uses the 4chan owned "4chan-ads.org" to handle loading the ads and never loads Javascript from the ad clients.
Prior to this front page ad, ad networks were not used on 4chan. In fact, they were basically told to fuck off and not even contact 4chan.
>Note: We do not work with ad networks. If you represent a network, please do not e-mail us, as we will not respond to your inquiry.
https://www.4chan.org/advertise
Please severe connections with ecmprocks advertising and use the existing 4chan ad system to load ads on the front page for the security of the users.
4chan's JS that loads arbitrary JS and ads from ecmprocks.
But selling out user privacy was just a meme posted by /pol/ in a pastebin!
But, really, this shit is sketchy as fuck. What was wrong with using 4chan ads or an advertising venue that isn't invasive? When such options exist I don't think 4chan has to resort to porn site level advertising to get revenue. Use a normal system like everyone else instead of this sketchy shit.
>not using adblock
>>343349
I use adblock and NoScript but have ads allowed on 4chan. NoScript blocks the front page ad and any other ad that would try to do this nonsense, but I'm not autistic enough to expect everyone else to use NoScript.
And we shouldn't have to block 4chan's ads.
A malware scheme used ads served through ecmprocks to get revenue for the malware owner. That doesn't make that ad provider itself malicious, stupid, or else AdSense and tons of other ad providers that have been exploited for money would be too.
>>343349
the ads that run through the regular channels on the boards are very much non-invasive and sometimes funny. There's no reason to block them unless they start to look like the ones that are now appearing on the front page.
Also the thread I made earlier about the ads on the front page seems to have been deleted.
>>343365
>appearing on the front page
If you go to the front page you deserve what you get.
>>343365
>Also the thread I made earlier about the ads on the front page seems to have been deleted.
Why is it every time some conspiracy faggot like you opens their mouth it quickly becomes apparent they're a redditor who doesn't even understand how threads are pruned on 4chan?
>>343372
Threads are deleted when mods get #triggered
It's always funny how you retards get so buttblasted whenever people call out 4chan for doing stupid shit. You really should leave your mod trips on though
>>343362
the issue is that ecmprocks itself has been known to cause redirects and loads 3rd party javascript, which are no-goes for security.
the fact that it's known as an ad network that panders to malicious users should be a big red-flag that says "Do not use this ad network."
>>343372
not him, but /qa/ is pretty slow. The ad started today, so his thread would have been today. The last bump on the oldest thread in /qa/ right now was posted a day and a half ago. It wouldn't have been pruned yet.
>>343374
If mods wanted to silence you, you would just be range banned so take your tinfoil hat and stick up your ass.
>>343382
Fuck off mod çüçk
>>343382
why does /qa/ have trolls? Can't we just actually talk about things for once?
>>343379
>The ad started today
Confirmed for having no fucking clue what you're talking about
ecmprocks redirects users to sites that install malware according to google's safebrowsing report.
confirmed malvertising.
So I'm not the only one that noticed this...
>>343393
Back on /q/ the mods and jannies would troll threads that called them out
>>343397
>mcanime
>anime
Why am I not surprised that dumbass weebs would be involved?
And maybe the ad shit is because Hiro's used to 2ch. Look at their ads. Shit looks like that all the time. But this isn't the Jap web that looks like it came out of the 90s. We have ad systems that don't suck complete ass and don't install malware on your system.
>whitelisting ads
>ever
top kek
Hey anons, you might want to ask the ad network why they're affiliating with such domains; https://epom.com/support
>>343424
I can already tell you why: money.
>browsing homepage
>whitelisting ads
This can't be happening
>>343436
Nothing wrong with using the homepage.
R8 and share white- and blacklist.
>>343436
>>343371
Does it really bother you that there are people who happen to use the home page that you have to even mention it, much less call them out on it?
I genuinely don't understand how people can be this elistist on how others have a preference for literally clicking links. First it's the board front page, now it's home front page. If there was a browsing method immediatly better than the catalog, I bet you'd bandwagon your way all over it too.
>>343297
>http://easyviruskillingNOPE.com/how-to-remove-ecpmrocks-com-redirect-virus-guide/
>http://fixwindowspconlineNOPE.com/ecpmrocks-com-removal/
Those sites are just search engine spam pages full of copypasta.
>>343443
4chan doesn't deserve to be whitelisted until reCAPTCHA is replaced.
You might need some exception filters for /adv/, though.
>>343450
>2015
>not bookmarking your main boards' catalog
:/
>>343453
Google is large, very large. Pretty sure my data means nothing to them. I'm not concerned, nothing bad has happened yet.
>>343397
I checked, but it doesn't seem to be listed anymore.
>>343455
It's not so much about stealing data as it is about cutting privacy-concerned people out of the site entirely.
>>343461
addendum: and whatever other random users Google decides to block
>>343459
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagnostic/#url=ecpmrocks.com
Note that malvertisement networks are usually marked as "not dangerous" but given the "Some pages on this website redirect visitors to dangerous websites that install malware" notice because ad networks don't host the malware directly.
>>343408
>weebs
>involved with malware
I don't really have much new to say here, but why do we need ecmprocks.com when we already have 4chan-ads.org ?
Are the 4chan ads not making enough money?
>>344053
you can never make enough money, anon
>>344068
>you can never make enough money,
Right, sure. But I'm actually curious how different the pay is from the 4chan-ads to the ecmprocks ads.
If it's WAY more I can kinda understand, but this seems like a pretty bad plan if they just pay 10% more.
>>344309
maybe Hiro just isn't fully aware of 4chan's old policy on ads and the 4chan-ads engine.
>>344314
Maybe.
I hope he goes back on this, because 4chan-ads is one of the least offensive advertising setups I've ever seen, and that built a lot of trust (and probably convinced a bunch of people to disable adblocking).
>>344347
It's why I unblocked ads. Because the 4chan ones are just inintrusive. And there's other ad networks that also don't use intrusive and shitty ads like that. For example, project wonderful does ads much the same way. So, I unblock those because they're inintrusive and it helps out. If Hiro wants to bloat the side with fucking malware I'll just block that shit. 4chan isn't a sketchy, small porn site. I'd like to come to 4chan without the whole "OMG 4CHAN WILL GIVE YOU A VIRUS!" scare that people think of 4chan actually being true.
>>343297
I can't see anything, what the hell are you guys talking about
does this ad's entire frame appear only in the usa?
