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  Tom, 9 Apr 2004 @ 8:51am

  
  

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  Well the answer in australia is obvious... they use http://www.htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/control.guest?u=gamblersanonymous
  
  to host their message board... and tripod uses popups. If they used their own message board problem goes away.

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  Jerry Talkington, 9 Apr 2004 @ 8:54am

  
  

  It's not a popup at all...

  It's actually google syndication in the message boards, which are offsite. This is the page with the warning, as well as the link to the message boards: http://www.gamblersanonymous.org.au/messageboard.htm
  I thought google was going to stop advertising gambling sites?

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  Stephen Katz, 13 Jun 2006 @ 7:42pm

  
  

  Online Casinos Advertising Over Gamblers Anonymous

  Through adware placed on a computer without the user's permission, popups from gambling websites can occur when words such as "gambler" or "gamblers" or "gambling" are in the URL. I have had these comments from a few people accessing my website www.gamblingfactsandfictions.com which is a website designed to help people stop gambling, quit gambling or never start gambling. I would never have popup ads on my website and especially for any gambling website, and obviously neither would Gamblers Anonymous.
  
  Fortunately there are effective ways of getting rid of this adware through adware removal programs. Two adware removal programs that are highly recommended and are absolutely free are "Ad-Aware" and "Spybot Search & Destroy" which also removes other bad stuff as well.

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