Ads - Has the forum been hacked?

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I see ads at the bottom of every page of this forum. They haven't been there before, have they?
Has the forum been hacked or is my browser infected?
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Since I'm using ad blockers I don't know, since when this ad apears. But it's not your browser.
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That is good to know, thanks. I use an ad-blocker as well, which made it even stranger... Ah, seemed like i made an exception for this board, i vaguely remember something didn't work with it. Hm.

So the ads are no accident? Garvin?
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I don't see any ads, nor is my pop-up blocker warning me of anything. I have viewed the site with FF, IE9, Opera & Safari.
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I noticed them also on another site. Seems like a browser-extension of mine is responsible.

kleinerChemiker, you really see them too? That's how i understood
But it's not your browser.
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Well, I never go out without adBlock+ etc, so I can't tell as I dont see anything unusual, Malte. :)
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It was the "Web RSS Subscriber"-Plugin. It either got hacked or went bad. Because of adblock, I didn't see the ad on most sites.

Horrible. And really strange, seems like the extension isn't in the webstore anymore - but if google removed it, why didn't i get a warning?

Thanks for the help.
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sorry, I didn't see the ads. I looked into the html code and the code at the bottom looked like some amazon ad code :oops:
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