If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are:
Avast blocking sites i havent been to windows#
I wouldn't reinstall Avast, but just use Windows built-in Defender, and maybe let run a scan once a month.īut that is totally up to you of course you should do whatever you feel comfortable with.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. īefore I posted my previous post I had already seen the disabled Avast Online Security extension (in your system details) - it ''does'' some adblocking (depending on your settings) : I immediately went to find out if there is such a thing as an 'Avast adblocker', and is what I found.
Avast blocking sites i havent been to plus#
On your new device - would you consider installing one of these extensions :ĪdBlock Plus is the one I use, but others choose this one : You say that you can't find any adblocker - probably a rhetorical question, but : did you look in the 3-bar menu (or Tools) => Add-ons => Extensions ? On your new device - would you consider installing one of these extensions :ĪdBlock Plus is the one I use, but others choose this one :Ĭould it be that you had an adblocker installed, but forgot about it ? If you don't see anything there, then the fact that you never saw any ads on that device, is a mistery to me. You say that you can't find any adblocker - probably a rhetorical question, but : did you look in the 3-bar menu (or Tools) => Add-ons => Extensions ? On your old device you did not see ads, while you didn't have an ablocking extension installed - malware won't (usually) block ads in most cases malware will do the exact opposite.Ĭould it be that you had an adblocker installed, but forgot about You haven't installed an adblocking extension on your new device, therefore seeings ads is quite normal. No, Firefox does not block ads - Firefox has a content blocking feature, but blocking ads is not what it does.