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Re:Paypal Bans Usenet Providers Over Piracy Concerns by jebblue on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @01:03PM (#4815387)
This is what Chrome told me:

Danger: Malware Ahead! Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on torrentfreak.com. Content from ox-d.traffiqexchange.com, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your computer with malware.

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Re:Paypal Bans Usenet Providers Over Piracy Concerns by ashray on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @01:21PM (#4815486)
So it's one of their advertisers. Main problem with 3rd party ad networks =/ Hope they sort it out.

For what it's worth, torrentfreak is pretty clean.

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Re:Paypal Bans Usenet Providers Over Piracy Concerns by harshreality on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @05:21PM (#4816641)
Either adblock or ghostery is blocking that ad network, then.
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Re:Paypal Bans Usenet Providers Over Piracy Concerns by Nux on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @05:15PM (#4816612)
What you need is NoScript ;-)
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Re:Paypal Bans Usenet Providers Over Piracy Concerns by drivebyacct2 on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @01:19PM (#4815471)
Well, you can roll the dice. Depending on what OS you're on, that dice may be weighted differently...
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