you should check to make sure your computer isn't infected with some kind of malware or adware that could be sticking their own ads on websites.
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Whilst this could well be the case there have been numerous reported instances of problematic ads on the site over the years.
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Numerous enough that people who otherwise would won't whitelist the site. I'm not going to go digging out the threads but cg has confirmed issues with ads more than once.
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Most "victims" don't bother reporting the scam and other malicious ads that appear pretty often on perfectly clean PCs.
It's probably out of cg's control, so we just use ad blockers or go for patreon. Your estimation of "a couple" is just... your estimation.
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It happens to me from time to time. In general, going back of one or two pages by using the browser's back button brings me back to the Steamgifts page (and often with another ad that is not posing this problem).
If I'm not mistaken, these dubious ads are just badly chosen by Google, and Google's choices of ads depend on your country / region, your browsing habits, your searches on Google, ... If you have an account on a Google site (gmail, youtube, google search, ...) you can try to depersonalize these choices of ads by going here in order to make the problem less frequent. But I think it will only work if you are usually logged into a Google account with the browser used for Steamgifts. There is also a form to report the bad advertisings somewhere on this Google site, but I do not think it's really effective.
The only other solution I see is the use of ad blocker (like uBlock Origin) for the time that this problem of annoying bad ads will last.
Edit:
An other solution is to become a patreon (starting at $3 per month) to remove ads while keeping your support for Steamgifts... ^^
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This. Even though I would like a site to get advertising revenue, there have been so many instances of hijacked adverts that I'm just not taking any risks...
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Ad Blocker Plus and MalWareBytes Browser Guard.
Blocks most annoying ads for me, across the Web.
And TBH, MWB:BG blocks far more ads,trackers, PuPs and other crap than ABP does. And it's also free.
(MalWareBytes Browser Guard is not part of the MalWareBytes standard SW, you do need to install the extension in your browser, only available for Chrome and Firefox right now, it seems.)
https://www.malwarebytes.com/browserguard/
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Oh, dear lordie. You use Edge?
Why would you hurt yourself that way?
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CG is creating SteamGifts | Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/steamgifts
If you become a patron, the ads will disappear.
Is it a patron but advertising?
Your computer will be contaminated.
I think so.
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adbocker, i have yet to see a single advert on steam gifts since they had the harmful popup ads. had steamgifts on my adblock whitelist until that
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It sounds like your web browser is hijacked. I'd recommend doing a scan with Malwarebytes to see if it detects anything.
You can get the free version here.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/
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