Comments on: survey popup

survey popup

progosk — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:44:58 -0800

what's with this survey thing that pops out at the unsuspecting mefite? (It adds "for research purposes only", but would you trust the claims of a browser pop-up?)

By: item

item — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:46:50 -0800

Where does it pop up from? I see only a blank page, must be Adblocked.

By: progosk

progosk — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:58:55 -0800

From the MeFi front page, a few minutes ago. I'm on Firefox, without Adblock, but pop-ups turned off...

By: progosk

progosk — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:03:59 -0800

(not able to replicate this now...)

By: cashman

cashman — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:04:52 -0800

You' got cooties.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:15:48 -0800

amch.questionmarket.com is known adware.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:17:11 -0800

Yeah, it's not originating here, unless the fmpub ad company servers are hacked to spit it out, which I doubt.

By: progosk

progosk — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:26:30 -0800

Ok, nevermind, I guess. I tried to replicate with the three other tabs I had open previously, but nuthin' doin'. Might I have associated it with metafilter because of the similar colour-scheme?
It actually disppeared of its own accord, unclicked, after about 15 seconds. (Oh, and: I'm on a Mac, so it cain't be cooties - not yet, at least...)

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:28:26 -0800

It's being served to you from inside your house!!!

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:29:36 -0800

would you trust the claims of a browser pop-up?

Hell yes! Otherwise, I never would have learned that my computer may be suffering from instability or low PC speeds, and I would not have been given an opportunity for a free system sca111000000000000SKYNETACTIVATED

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:40:52 -0800

Such things can also be served upon navigating away from a previous site.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:52:13 -0800

Or served upon a bed of lettuce.

By: tkolar

tkolar — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:31:19 -0800

Or served by executing some sort of complex dance routine.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:34:05 -0800

Questionamarket is a pretty common survey tool used by major online advertisers to track the effectiveness of their campaigns. The pop-up is often coded directly into the flash ads being served, so it may be coming through for non-logged in users without mathowie knowing about it.

By: pupdog

pupdog — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:34:06 -0800

You got served

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:06:24 -0800

From highlights of Meg Whitman's career:

September 17, 2002—Started a brief trial of eBay Black for the sale of drugs, weapons, and human organs

The survey deals with how Matt can learn from Meg's mistakes.

By: progosk

progosk — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:31:35 -0800

jacquilynne writes: "The pop-up is often coded directly into the flash ads being served, so it may be coming through for non-logged in users without mathowie knowing about it."

Tried to replicate that, too - no dice. Sorry for the false alarm that this is proving to have been.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:33:17 -0800

You gotta serve somebody.

By: disclaimer

disclaimer — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:18:04 -0800

Serve man?

By: baphomet

baphomet — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:22:57 -0800

With hollandaise sauce.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:23:34 -0800

we mopped up that pop up.

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:23:56 -0800

It's a cookbook!!!

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:02:35 -0800

Wait, actually it's more of a cooking memoir.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:28:36 -0800

It's being served to you from inside your house!!!

127.00.00.01 - The movie!

By: slogger

slogger — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:13:42 -0800

How to Serve Humans--for Dinner!

I got here too late, didn't I?

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:20:13 -0800

"It's a cookbook!"

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:20:35 -0800

aw crap.

By: Locative

Locative — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:37:15 -0800

Mercy favorite for Artw.

By: davejay

davejay — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:24:51 -0800

Now I'm wondering what the longest string of favorited comments (unbroken) in a single thread is.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:59:35 -0800

It is at moments like this that I relish sharing the fact that my recent ancestors are survivors of the ill-fated Donner party. It's really delicious dinner conversation to be able to tell people that somewhere in my recent, ungarnished genetic history my people ate... some other people... delicious... tasty...

Hey, you really don't need that arm, do you? *licks chops, gestures casually with fork*

127.00.00.01

IF YOU EVER WRITE AN IPV4 ADDRESS LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN I'M GOING TO ROOT YOUR BRAIN AND TYPE SUDO RM -RF / AT THE USERPROMPT OF THE MALFORMED, TINY BASH SHELL THAT IS YOUR VERY SOUL.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:05:29 -0800

...my recent ancestors are survivors of the ill-fated Donner party.

This explains so much...

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:09:57 -0800

0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1?

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:10:21 -0800

You mean they ate each other up?

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:31:02 -0800

I would run HiJackThis at your earliest opportunity.

By: nsillik

nsillik — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:50:14 -0800

Dear Artw,
::1/128

By: progosk

progosk — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:54:50 -0800

Just to say: finally found the pop-up culprit! It's the New Yorker (not always, but repeatedly over the past few days).

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:51:08 -0800

So it was malware after all.