Yesterday the website was inaccessible, looked all jumbled together like I tried to load it on an old flip phone. Today every time I'm browsing a file page like a vehicle model the website is hijacked spam or an add page asking to allow notifications or even shows up as a captcha challenge saying "click allow if you are a human" thus allowing them to send notifications. Windows 10, Chrome. When I click "X" on the add it sends me back to google. These ads do not appear anywhere else on the site but "downloads" pages. The add or spam hijacks the page automatically similar to opening a new tab. it does not come up as a new tab. It takes the place of whatever page I was on.

Edited February 4, 20224 yr by GenerationKill
added example of spam

Hello GenerationKill,

 

Yesterday we had a short blip caused by a long standing bug in the software we use that causes the CSS to generate in a corrupt manner. This is a timing issue in the software we use, and unfortunately was not picked up by our usual monitoring (or myself as this occurred during sleep for me), so was fixed when an automatic recache occurred.

 

Your issue on the downloads page looks like it could be caused by a malicious redirect ad. Can you tell me exactly the pages this is happening for you so I can get this looked at? Which particular downloads pages? Just the downloads main page, or individual file pages, or both?