Hello,

Thank you for following up on this. My team have thus far been unable to replicate this issue and it has not shown up in any one of our three ad quality/anti malware tools. We will keep working towards finding any issues like this.

If you have any screenshots/video of this in action, I would be eternally grateful if you could send directly to me at trevor@seekingalpha.com

In addition, if you could also check in your browsing history if you have been to seekngalpha.com (seekingalpha without the i), as this is a malicious site that downloads adware and check your programs to see if there is an updates/programs that you do not recognize. Ads can be injected into pages through malicious browser plug ins without having any relationship to the website.

Just to confirm, unlike other free to use sites, we never allow any of our partners to run autoplay video ads on seekingalpha.com, so when we do find a partner who has breached our trust and rules we take hard action against them.

Thanks again and apologies that your user experience is being disrupted by ads. It personally pains me when this happens.

Trevor Heal

VP of Business Operations

Seeking Alpha

Hello Mike,

Firstly, apologies that you are still seeing this issue. I would personally been extremely irked with that user experience as well. We were confident that we had resolved the issue, so I am disappointed to see it arise again. Can I ask whether it has been a consistent issue over the last few weeks or whether it stopped for a period of time? We work with a multitude of ad partners, who are on a very short leash with regards to ad quality, so if we find one that violates our ad quality policies (which this certainly does), we remove them immediately.

Thanks again for reporting this.

Trevor Heal