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[greatbear]

Uh oh.

While quietly tinkering in the Workshop of Mayhem I sensed a disturbance in the LJ Force. Actually, I was just hungry, but during my break for lunch, I discovered this:



Of course, this is to be expected around teh intarwebs these days. But that's not the whole issue. This ad has been popping up in ad-supported LJs and is being hosted by SUP, the outfit that owns Livejournal.

I think it's time that Teh Gays pwn Livejournal. Again.

More info can be found here.

(snugglebitch via nebris)

EDIT: It seems that LJ itself was blindsided by this about as much as those journal owners who were affected by it. The comments following this post include one by the LJ staff apologizing and referencing in greater detail what happened and what they are doing to prevent it from happening again. It seems this issues was pretty promptly dealt with before it became huge. Kudos.

Comments

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Fixed. I had the ad on my own server, but it's name was such that it would trip some ad filters. I changed it up a bit so it would not happen to others.

I use a very fine-tuned adblocker, so I rarely encounter ads, pop-ups and whatnot unless I want to. I would never have seen this ad, and it would not have shown up in my LJ since it's a permanent account. But others using the enhanced ad-supported free model and surfers from outside LJ not blocking ads would be subjected to this.