"View Manual (PDF)" all over the page??

[Brad1]

What's up with all these "View manual (PDF)" pop-ups all over the page with no description of what it wants anyone to download? Is this site hacked?

[The Dude]

I don't see it. Possibly an ad? I have an ad blocker, so maybe that is why I don't see it.

[Jazz P Bass]

It's an advertisement.

[mozz]

I run Firefox with Ghostery (ad blocker) and i don't see it.

[J M Fahey]

The three shown in your page are Ads, probably the unbearable Google Ads.

Beside their positions in the page, typically reserved for ads, each one shows the small right pointing triangle with an "I" inside, clicking there brings the "more information" panel.
Next time click there and see what the cat brings.
They also show the "x" cancel button .... which typically brings a complaint from Googe Ads "why you don´t want to see our BEAUTIFUL ads" or similar nosense.
Teyb tupically ask if it blocks content, or is inapproppriate or something.

Next time click on "I" and report what you find.

Wouldn´t worry too much about them, except for the inconvenience.

And yes, this site is hacked ... *everything* is hacked by Google

[R.G.]

I think I live in a protected bubble sometimes. When I'm forced by circumstance to use the browser on my phone, I'm - what's that UK term? Ah! Gob-smacked by the ads.
In my opinion, the ad content on line has been pushed to the edge of making the net unusable. I mostly don't use my phone for network stuff - that's all on the laptop, so I suppose I sidestep some of it by demographics. The laptop has an ad blocker that has proved very effective, and continues to evolve to avoid most ads, banners and popups. I use a script blocker to let web pages run but stop the pulled -in cr@p ads that come in that way. I use a VPN to be able to escape some of the tricky geo-enhanced ad-adders.

This keeps it down to a dull roar. Some of the cr@p gets through, and I pay for some of my peace by having to juggle the script blocker to get some bits of web pages to show. Cory Doctorow was right in his invention of the term "en-s#!tification". That's an interesting term - look it up.

Online ads sometimes get to the point where they're insufferable, and I turn the Pi-Hole back on. This helps. I'd rather see empty blank spots on the screen than be visually and aurally yelled at.

I realize this is an old guy's rant. I started using the internet at a time when it was text based, and any hint of commercial activity could get your account invalidated. Now I'll go back to my rocking chair and mutter "Dag nabbit!!"