WTAF??? Five times in the last four minutes I have gotten that damned

[niyad]

"verifying your browzer" with its circling green line, and a line at the bottom that reads, "protected by ezoic". VERY annoying.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. ezoic is the advertisement server of DU. . . . . nt

[niyad]

5. I am a star member, so nothing about ads should be affecting me.

[TwilightZone]

12. It still goes through the process.

It just doesn't show the ads.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Right, but ezoic is the advertising server, and occasionally (or more) you might see a little tag without ads

It IS a glitch.

[usonian]

2. Yup, ezoic is an ad server, and as a star member, it should never affect you. Hmmmm,

https://www.ezoic.com

I can't imagine what's happening. I always use one or more ad-blockers in addition to a star membership, so no guess from me.

The Cloudflare anti-hacking content server once in a great while will put up a browser verification screen.

Hopefully, the admins will see this and figure out what's going on, given your star membership.

"Membership has its privileges"

[niyad]

6. I truly hope so. Thefe was no response from admin when I posted about this

the last time it happened, a few days ago.

[Srkdqltr]

3. I got a brief ine earlier today on my laptop.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. i keep getting wed like to send you notifications

[niyad]

7. Weird. I crack up on my cell phone, as I keep getting urgent notifucations

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that my sirius and mcafee subscriptions have expired. I have never had either of them.

[usonian]

8. SCAM.

Like the emails from the banks I don't use and companies I don't use.

Got a message faking the USPS today.

Unfortunately, I haven't found an easy way to report these. They want you to file a long fraud claim (even if I am just informing of phishing, never clicking on such stuff)

Most companies will let you forward an obvious phishing email to abuse@company_name.com
Chase uses [e-mail].
Sometimes, it's not easy to do the right thing.

If you get caught in one of these, contact the help number at the company.
Unless it's Google, Facebook or X/Twitter.

[niyad]

9. I just delete them. .and the "you have won" ones.

[3Hotdogs]

17. Fuck. I never win anything. How do I get my name on the list so's I can win something?

[Niagara]

20. Congratulations 3Hotdogs! I have a 10 count hotdog package and an 8 count hotdog bun package for you.

You won! You won!

[AllaN01Bear]

19. scams. lol

[Jerryatric]

10. That has happened to me several times in the last day or two, too.

I had no idea what was doing it, but I hope it stops.

[niyad]

11. And it just did it twice as I tried to reply to you.

[EarlG]

13. Hello

Sorry about this, but it's nothing to worry about -- Ezoic is a partner of DU (provides our ads). This is something related to their service, but I'm also not entirely sure what it is. It's definitely nothing malicious, but it's also not something that we asked to be turned on. I''m in touch with them so I'll find out what's going on and see about getting it turned off.

[niyad]

14. Thank you so much. I realize it is not a big deal, but it is annoying.

[EarlG]

15. I'm sure -- I've seen it myself occasionally but if it's appearing a lot, that must be annoying

Apologies again -- hopefully we'll be able to get this taken care of very soon.

[niyad]

16. Thank you again. It has just been a bit strange. Fingers crossed! Seven times

in just over an hour and a half was a bit much.