Safecount.net ad

[liljim]

Anyone else seeing this now and then? I seem to get it once per day and it could only being targeted at UK users. It's fairly unobtrusive and disappears after a few seconds if you don't manually close it. Let me know.

[Squidbit]

I've never seen it before.
I'm in the US.

[Gimmick]

I don't seem to get it. But the ad seems legit.

[twistex]

Never had it, could be because i live in Australia though.

[citricsquid]

yes, I've been getting it for about a week now, I complained to Luis about it*. We deal with the same shit at work (advertisers being dickwads and sneaking in disallowed adverts) so I've tried to pay attention to what adverts are displaying when that pop-up comes and I don't see any pattern... I also get it about once every day.

checked chat logs, 29th September is when I complained about it after seeing it for about 3 days, so I guess that means it has been almost a week now

[citricsquid]

hah, knew I took a screenshot, found it:

[Dean]

Yup. I've been seeing those ads for a while now. Really not sure for how long though. A week at least. Having said that though, I've not encountered it today.

[NekoMika]

Not gotten it.

live in the US

On the other hand I don't like those types of ads since they just pop out on the page right when you aren't even looking at them.

[liljim]

At 10/2/11 12:14 PM, citricsquid wrote: yes, I've been getting it for about a week now

I mentioned it to Tom earlier on in the week, but didn't think it was a big deal given that it creeps in just once a day, if that.

A few things to clear up - the ad is fine, it's not malicious, it's just that our advertisers don't usually tend to run this kind of campaign.

The reason I said it could only being directed at UK customers was because of the £ reward. However, the company itself is registered to an address in New York, so I thought similar campaigns might be running in other countries.

Thanks to those of you who have been leaving their location, that's a big help. Keep 'em coming.

[Murray]

Yeah, I have seen it happening once today.

[cast]

Never seen it - Atlanta GA, USA.

[Bryan]

I've never seen it.

U.S.

[TheMajormel]

never saw that except today...on this forum.
but it is a interesting way to do a ad on this site.

[UncleABCD]

Seen it two days ago. Not got it since. UK user.

Glad this was brought up, I honestly thought I had adware or something on my PC. It just appeared out of nowhere.

[Slint]

Never seen it. Portugal.

[Suprememessage]

I haven't seen it once, I live in the US.

[Gagsy]

Yeah I think I only just got it today. I definitely remember having to close it once today anyway.

[FairSquare]

Didn't see it. And i live in Holland.

[PIED3]

Yeah I started getting it this past week, I searched around and found some complaints on some other forums. Seems a little lame, good luck dealing with it.

[jonathanfis]

I havent seen it. Sweden.

[TurkeyOnAStick]

I get that ad, too, and I've been wondering if it was just me.

I'm a Brit, too.

[slipstrike]

That looks like it could get annoying, but at least it's not that kind of ad that turns a certain word or phrase and turns it into a link. You can find them on news websites and some wikis, and perhaps other places as well, but thankfully not here.

[nous]

USA here and i haven't seen the ad.

Although i wish i did so i could win some money :(

[gumOnShoe]

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic85000.ht ml

08-21-2007

Julio
TechSpot Executive Editor

Location: Ecuador
Member since: Feb 2002, 5,227 posts
System specs
I tracked down the pop to IntelliTXT. Already sent a serious complaint.

Hope that helps or something...

[ExtraLife]

Never seen it! - Location: Orange County, CA

[Garage]

Never Seen It

SA, TX, US

[kakalxlax]

never seen it
argentina

argelia??

no X(, argentina

[SafecountJenn]

Hi, I work at Safecount so I thought I'd reply to help clarify who we are. We are a survey company that advertisers use to help measure their ad campaigns. Sites like Newsgrounds are ad-supported so they can remain free to users and the advertisers want to know what people think about their brands. Even though sometimes the surveys seem unrelated to the site or ads, your responses do help them. Safecount is not adware/spyware and we are TrustE approved so you don't have to worry about viruses or anything like that. We do understand that the pop-ups/invites can be annoying sometimes and we try our best not to launch too many. We care about your site experience so you can actually go to our website safecount.net to change the frequency of the invites you get across the web or opt out completely if you want. Your opinions really do matter via these short surveys and we appreciate your help! Thanks for listening and helping!

[Lorkas]

Never seen it. Lithuania (It's in Europe).

Also the thread about a guy being burned alive? That thread is mine. You should check it out. It's pretty gruesome.

[mattuiop]

Lol I got it 3 times!