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Ask HN: Why do icons from Facebook contain ads?
2 points by curiously on Dec 11, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
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???



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.


weird...I disabled and enabled adblock plus and it disappeared...


You probably have some malware on your machine that's doing naughty stuff.


crap...anyway to find out and remove it?


https://www.google.com/chrome/srt/

This application will scan and remove software that may cause problems with Chrome.


On Windows, Spybot Search & Destroy was my goto tool. It had a free version last time I checked.




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