It isn’t really changing the quality of my life, so I’m not complaining - but I’m chiming in to let TPTB know that I’ve seen it too. (Although only once so far.)
I haven’t seen it yet, so I’ll cross that river when I get to it.
Ouch.
I got one (in Japanese) when I opened this thread. Safari here.
Alea jacta est!
(If that’s not the password for the Rubicon Project, it should be!)
I’m getting it too, on Chrome.
I got it three times here, I’m using Firefox. I googled “tap.rubiconproject.com” and found a link to this thread.
Before this evening, i had not seen it. Now, we’re old pals. It has come up 3 or 4 times, always when i’m opening a thread i haven’t previously viewed. I’m using Safari 4.
I’ve gotten it 3 times in a half hour of being on the Dope. Using Chrome.
It’s http authorization dialog. I got it earlier, and thought I had malware or something until I noticed it was only this site. The add prolly tries to load some file that the public doesn’t have access to.
A local fix would be to add this line to your hosts file
127.0.0.1 tap.rubiconproject.com
That’ll block future pop ups because it’ll override the DNS setting and point tap.rubiconproject.com to your computer, disabling it.
Yes, three times in the past five minutes.
Aw, you beat me to it! I got sidetracked checking my overly full mailbox.
I’ve been getting it the whole damn day! TPTB, you have got a seriously fucked up ad-feed from “the rubicon project”. You want to keep them as an “ad supplier”, then you are seriously pissing off your customers! Do with that what you will…
I haven’t been having problems with rubicon, but in case other Canucks are, it looks to me like there might be some country-dependent code in there. When I do a view source I see references to http: //tap-cdn .rubiconproject .com (link intentionally broken) so if any Canucks are having problems they might want to put
127.0.0.1 tap-cdn.rubiconproject.com
in their hosts file as well
I’m starting to develop the sneaking suspicion that many of the technical problems people have been having with the board of late are the result of the fact that the people running “The Rubicon Project” have “mad skillz” that are a little less than “1337”. The number of complaint threads in ATMB has seemed to jump immensely beginning immediately after the thread announcing the board’s association with TRP.
I got another one of these today from Kaiser Permanente. Anybody else seen this?
In Window, go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and edit the Hosts file. Add this line:
127.0.0.1 rubiconproject.com
Loading spammers and ad servers into Hosts is a great way to keep them from slowing down your system and tracking you. See this site for a great discussion and to download a pre-loaded Hosts file.
They’re probably pissing off their own customers, too. Every time an error like that pops up, it’s an ad or something the advertisers hired them for and aren’t getting. Really a lose-lose situation here.
[nitpick]cdn stands for ‘content distribution network’ in this case, not Canada/ian.[/nitpick]
I have not received this popup yet - been browsing about 30 minutes; Chrome/Win7