Fighting Malicious Ads on Download Pages

donho

@Mark-Olson
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A Former User

Install uBlock Origin as a browser extension.

PeterJones

@Fast said in Fighting Malicious Ads on Download Pages:

Install uBlock Origin as a browser extension.

@Mark-Olson had already suggested uBlock Origin, and @Lycan-Thrope had already suggested AdBlock Plus.

And that suggestion won’t help anyone who doesn’t read this Topic before visiting Notepad++‘s official Downloads page: pointing out the offending advertisers’ URLs to Don is the only way we have right now to protect random users who are downloading the application (we cannot make everyone who wants to install Notepad++ first go add adblock to their browser).

Lycan Thrope

@PeterJones ,
Personally, I can’t see why everyone does NOT already having it installed in their browsers. Ads are the most aggravating thing on the Internet now. They keep pushing crap into our faces when we’re the ones paying for the connections, offering the knowledge, applications and help.

It’s like when cable started airing ads. I couldn’t wait to get a Roku so I could cut the cable (cable tv that is, not the internet feed). If there’s going to be ads, it’s going to be because I get free shows, I’ll not pay to be shown advertising.

PeterJones

@Lycan-Thrope ,

Whether or not ad blockers should be used is an argument with more than one side, and is not something that needs to be argued here. The fact is, since not everyone is using them, it’s not unreasonable to be glad that Don does put effort into trying to stop bad ads from being served on his end.

I didn’t object to ad blockers being recommended. I objected to the pointless “me too” that ignored the fact that it was a “me too”.

donho

@PeterJones said in Fighting Malicious Ads on Download Pages:

And that suggestion won’t help anyone who doesn’t read this Topic before visiting Notepad++‘s official Downloads page: pointing out the offending advertisers’ URLs to Don is the only way we have right now to protect random users who are downloading the application (we cannot make everyone who wants to install Notepad++ first go add adblock to their browser).

Once again, you’ve made a great point! A link to this post for reporting malicious ads has been placed below the download image (so far only for v8.8.1):

Let’s see if all the efforts are efficient for taking down the malicious ads.

Coises

@donho said in Fighting Malicious Ads on Download Pages:

A link to this post for reporting malicious ads has been placed below the download image (so far only for v8.8.1):

Great idea! And, immediately on checking it out:

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Coises

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looks like:

donho

@Coises
Thank you!
These 2 websites (8 links) have been blocked.

alexkoster

Thanks Don for providing a great piece of software, service to our community and for reminding us to open our hearts to those who are suffering (Hong Kong people, Taiwan independence, the Uyghur people and the Ukranian people to name a few)!

Here are the ads I am seeing when browsing using Mozilla Firefox from the USA. Both the top horizontal banner ad and the square ads on the right side appear malicious.

Screenshot 2025-06-07 at 22-16-55 Download Notepad v8.8.1 We are with Ukraine (stable auto-update triggered) Notepad.png

Top horizontal banner link:

https://ff.sitesearchweb.com/offer?cid=10970&pclid=60526930&ctag=784125095&pubd=https%3A%2F%2Fnotepad-plus-plus.org%2Fdownloads%2Fv8.8.1&utm_campaign=110315&crid=4466&cr_gid=298&yomen=106&bid_r=PdI6rEu7Vk4fz3A8Z3GXDQ

Side square links (each seem to link to the same URL):

https://ff.sitesearchweb.com/offer?cid=10970&pclid=60526930&ctag=784125095&pubd=https%3A%2F%2Fnotepad-plus-plus.org%2Fdownloads%2Fv8.8.1&utm_campaign=110315&crid=4466&cr_gid=298&yomen=106&bid_r=PdI6rEu7Vk4fz3A8Z3GXDQ

PeterJones

@donho,

I don’t know how much you can customize your stylesheets, or add <style> tags to individual pages. But if I use my browser’s “Inspect” tool, and add the following <style> to either the <head> or near the top of the <body>:

<style>
    ins { 
        background: linear-gradient(to bottom right, white, white 48%, red 48%, red 52%, white 52%, white); 
        border: 3px solid red;
    }
</style>

Then I can make the page render like this:

<style>
    ins { 

          /* Set a transparent border to allow the background gradient to show through */
  border: 4px solid transparent; 
  /* Apply your gradient as the background */
  background: linear-gradient(white, #f77) padding-box, 
              linear-gradient(to right, #f00, #3020ff) border-box; /* The gradient for the border */
  /* Ensure the background covers the border area */
  background-origin: border-box; 
  /* Clip the background to the padding box and border box to create the effect */
  background-clip: content-box, border-box; 
  /* Apply border-radius for rounded corners */
  border-radius: 30px; 
    }
    </style>

with an ins::before, you could even add an “AD:” prefix to any advertising content:

<style>
    ins::before {
        content: "AD:";
        /* You can add other styling properties here */
        font-weight: bold;
    }
    ins { 

          /* Set a transparent border to allow the background gradient to show through */
  border: 4px solid transparent; 
  /* Apply your gradient as the background */
  background: linear-gradient(white, #f77) padding-box, 
              linear-gradient(to right, #f00, #3020ff) border-box; /* The gradient for the border */
  /* Ensure the background covers the border area */
  background-origin: border-box; 
  /* Clip the background to the padding box and border box to create the effect */
  background-clip: content-box, border-box; 
  /* Apply border-radius for rounded corners */
  border-radius: 30px; 
    }
    </style>

I don’t know if doing any of these would violate the terms of service for your hosting… But if not, and if you can insert your own style to change borders and background of the ins tag using something similar to one of the examples I’ve done (even if not exactly what I’ve done), then you could at least make it more obvious to users that those are ad links rather than real download links.