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Posted June 17, 2017
GOG.com has been insert pop-up ads

Greeting, everyone.
I come from China Mainland.
Recently, GOG.com change captcha from google to sweetCaptcha in China Mainland.
half hours ago, when I was visiting https://www.gog.com/redeem
I found the page has been insert pop-up ads
Once I click the blank area, the website pops up a ads
And I captured the screen as evidence.
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Posted June 17, 2017
I think you have caught a malware/adware. Gog doesn't has to do with it, but probably it inserted itself in GOG's page.
Posted June 17, 2017
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blotunga: I think you have caught a malware/adware. Gog doesn't has to do with it, but probably it inserted itself in GOG's page.
Sir, except me, there're other people met the question in China Mainland.
and I am a website front-end developer.
I can make sure my pc is safe without any malware/adware
Posted June 17, 2017
We'll, I'm not getting anything​ here...
So it's either China only or malware of some sort..

Not sure what your ISPs / government are capable of over there but I somehow doubt it's Gog injecting ads (and not using Google captcha)...
Posted June 17, 2017
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adaliabooks: We'll, I'm not getting anything​ here...
So it's either China only or malware of some sort..

Not sure what your ISPs / government are capable of over there but I somehow doubt it's Gog injecting ads (and not using Google captcha)...
yeah.
GOG.com has changed captcha in China Mainland.
So I think maybe the new captcha system is reason...
Posted June 17, 2017
It is checking that you really are genuinely Chinese. Many people these days pretend to be Chinese, like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_hRcDP3NxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuvj13NTwUY

Anyway, to fix it, you probably need a revolution, throw away the government and shit.
Posted June 17, 2017
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timppu: It is checking that you really are genuinely Chinese. Many people these days pretend to be Chinese, like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_hRcDP3NxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuvj13NTwUY

Anyway, to fix it, you probably need a revolution, throw away the government and shit.
I come here to give feedback to GOG.com
please speak some useful methods to solve this problem if you know.
Don't waste our time, please.
Posted June 17, 2017
Yup, looks like SweetCatpcha is known for doing crap like this... I'd suggest contacting support directly in case they don't notice this thread.
Posted June 17, 2017
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plagren: Yup, looks like SweetCatpcha is known for doing crap like this... I'd suggest contacting support directly in case they don't notice this thread.
Thank you, sir.
I did it.
Posted June 17, 2017
Seems like there were cases in the past where sweetcaptcha has been infested with malware/adware popups and then delivering popup ads (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2933812/sweetcaptcha-users-complain-of-advertising-popups.html )- maybe this is currently happening again.
Posted June 17, 2017
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TT_TT_TT_TT: Seems like there were cases in the past where sweetcaptcha has been infested with malware/adware popups and then delivering popup ads (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2933812/sweetcaptcha-users-complain-of-advertising-popups.html )- maybe this is currently happening again.
Thank you, sir.
I am very appreciated for you which can provide the news for me.
I decide to translate the news into Chinese to let more Chinese user know it.
Thanks again.
Posted June 19, 2017
Hey everyone,

We're really sorry about this. The captcha passed QA and all seemed fine, but as it turned out, the solution wasn't a 100% perfect. The captcha was working for some specific territories, but it's now been disabled and we are working on fixing the issue and developing a better solution. Apologies for the inconvenience!
Posted September 01, 2022
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fables22: Hey everyone,

We're really sorry about this. The captcha passed QA and all seemed fine, but as it turned out, the solution wasn't a 100% perfect. The captcha was working for some specific territories, but it's now been disabled and we are working on fixing the issue and developing a better solution. Apologies for the inconvenience!
I've had another ad in Gog Galaxy not related to GOG or indeed any game. I'm from the Netherlands and this was not part of a captcha. I did not dig any deeper, since apart from an adblocking firewall, I don't know of a proper setting to disable this. I don't consider editing a configuration file to be a proper solution.
Post edited September 01, 2022 by jorlin
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