I need to refresh a minimum of 5 times to open a page on this site. It's not enough that you spam my screen with ads like this?. How many more ads you will put on the screen so we can get a good server?

/I refreshed a few times to be able to post this.

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I don't have any ads...

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Adblock, its a hellova drug

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Me neither. Steamgifts does seem to be running a little slow lately. The only browser I can get to open it is the Steam in-game browser.

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Man, I don´t have any ads!

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I had no idea there ads lol, in fact I was wondering why the admins are not putting some but then again I also didn't think to disable adblock to check :))

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That's not fault of sites but adweres on your PC. Buy decent anti virus scan whole PC and you will never see those ads again.

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SteamGifts.com is the only site that has these ads

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Then you probably have some sort of plugin that puts them there in secret and offers you other things in return?

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I have adblock, but because I'm a very amazing guy I disable it when i enter in good site like www.steamgifts.com . Well, I don't have any weird ads.
You have a virus.

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Check your browser, there should be just one banner at the bottom on the page :3

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Yup, same here :)

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same situation here

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No ads for me, not running AdBlock...

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Might be the browser he is using or he has some maleware issues.

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+1 to this, zero invasive ads on SG.

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It's a little slow, but that's more due to the demand than the fault of their servers.

I've never seen ads like that to the sides; that's on your end. SG only has game sale ads at the very bottom.

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But if it's on my end why I get them only here?

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did you try different browser or pc?

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Maybe your virus chooses to affect only one of your most-visited sites so that you blame the site instead of suspect that you have a virus. Or maybe it affects a list of sites and this is the only one on the list which you use. Whatever it is, you're definitely infected with something.

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And yet somehow a big site like Wikipedia can keep up with their demand while still running no ads. Makes you wonder.....

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Wikipedia asks for donations multiple times a year in order to keep their site running.

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And this site has ad revenue and tens of thousands of users.

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I think you have a warped perception of not only how much money ad revenue brings in, but also how much server upkeep can cost.

Here, let's do a little math. Here is the fundraising information from Wikipedia. You can see that it claims to serve approximately 492 million (492,000,000) people a month, and that if everyone reading the banner donated $5, they would only have to fundraise one day a year. If 492 million are served a month, that means an average of 16.4 million are served a day (492,000,000/30). So, if everyone who went to Wikipedia that day donated $5, they would receive $82 million. $82 million, just to keep the site up for a year. Obviously, SG is several orders of magnitude smaller than Wikipedia, but the point remains.

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Ads like that are not normal on this site. Do a virus scan.

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wut? I don't have those ads and adblock is turned off for this site :I

Run a malware scan :3

edit: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/

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I also got no adblock, see no ads.

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Yes, MB is by far the best solution for your adware problem. Good luck, OP.

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Same situation here pal, page loads slow for me too although u can use adblocker to hide all the shit u don't want to see.

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The site can sometimes be slow - but it's not very often. Though, the ad at the bottom is not normal. Your PC might be infected with some malicious software and it might contribute to site loading slower than it would.

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Not often? You are joking right? That's like every day for the past 2 years except for the slow hours 'at night'. The ads don't look normal though.

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It's been really slow for over a week for me. I'm using Chrome and am frequently getting "No data received" errors. And those are some funky ads. I only see a wide banner at the bottom and a square one also near the bottom by the recent forum posts.

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Check your addons.

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Those ads are not from SG.

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it is likely that you are infected with adware. check if you have any unwanted extensions and do a full scan.

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As the others have already said, that is not normal so check your computer for adware

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I have Adblock off for this site and I only have a small banner at the very bottom of the page.

You may want to run an AV scan, a Malwarebytes scan and do a Spybot scan+immunization. Failing that, test in Firefox or install ABP.

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Can't confirm that, I never had anything else than this. Maybe I am wrong but I think you should clean your computer too.

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You are right. I looked into this and it turned out even though I have Adblock deactivated for SG NoScript and DoNotTrackMe still blocked some ads. Sorry if I caused you trubles/worries, I am glad your computer is clean. Also thanks for that nice web service, didn't know it.

Stay safe. :)

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I would recommend you to run Malwarebyte's Anti Malware.

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Your screenshot shows these are "Websparkle Ads". So this may be the name of the adware/malware that is installed on your PC.

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I googled it and it looks like he got some malware.

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I don't have those spyware ads, but the website has been running really poorly for me as of late.

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I disabled adblock plusm on Steamgifts and I don't see any ads. Check your computer.

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That's not the site it's you computer. I only have one ad and that's at the bottom of the page. You have some virus my friend.

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I recommend Adwcleaner it removes useless toolbars etc.

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+1 Great Program, used it yesterday to get rid of those annoying Toolbars that hijack your default home page. :)

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Some ads are only displayed for residents of certain countries.

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