The title says it all, i keep on seeing advertisements when i open pages in Chromium, those ads are shown in portions of the page (not popups) usually at the bottom and/or the top of the page and do not appear when i open the same page in Firefox.
Those advertisements break the page layout so they clearly are not something coded by the site developer to show AdSense. See screenshot below:
I am using GNU/Linux Xubuntu.
One proposed solution i found was to remove the chromium folder inside .config, i tried but it did not help.
I kept on googling but did not find anything recent to be used as a solution so i am posting the question here, hope someone can help, thanks.
Update-1: even chrome in my android (s3 neo) is showing a similar behavior since days (ads shown when not expected)
Update-2: even firefox (not logged in on google) showed the ad but it disappeared after ctrl+shift+R
Update-3: sometimes the ad does not show and an empty area is shown in its place. In those cases an error appears in the console, see screenshot below:
Update-4: the iframe that is trying to show the ad has this url: http://metrika-analytics.com/analytics.js
Update-5: another screenshot:
As you can see there are various "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden)"
Those not found resources are like:
- http://metrika-analytics.com/analytics.js
- http://img100.xvideos.com/eroteen.info/pics/xnb.gif
- http://metrika-analytics.com/analytics.js
This looks like a virus and i am on linux.
sudo apt-get purge chromium-browser
and thensudo apt-get install chromium-browser
. WARNING: This will erase all your bookmarks, history and prefecenceschromium
in incognito mode and check if the ad is there to be sure ...