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Ask HN: Why do icons from Facebook contain ads?

2 points by curiously 12y ago

I don't know what is going on, but when I went into my profile, I saw the background was an image. http://imgur.com/4OwJhgn Upon inspecting this picture, the url was from facebook. http://i.imgur.com/xWkPco6.png when I open the same image in incognito mode, it's what it should be. http://imgur.com/hmhQWFy What the hell is going on???

nbevans 12y ago
You probably have some malware on your machine that's doing naughty stuff.
- curiously 12y ago
  crap...anyway to find out and remove it?
  - pestaa 12y ago
    On Windows, Spybot Search & Destroy was my goto tool. It had a free version last time I checked.
  - hiby007 12y ago
    https://www.google.com/chrome/srt/ https://www.google.com/chrome/srt/ This application will scan and remove software that may cause problems with Chrome.
joshschreuder 12y ago
Given the incognito difference, I'd say an extension injecting content into the page. Extensions don't run in incognito mode by default. Try disabling them all and enabling one by one to determine the culprit.
- curiously 12y ago
  weird...I disabled and enabled adblock plus and it disappeared...