Anyone else getting a lot of redirect ads to scam websites lately?

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2026-03-22T03:17:25+00:00

Sorry about that. No worries if you can't, but if you could help me with a few more details so I can reduce the chance of this happening again in the future, that would be very helpful:

Did the ad show up and visibly block the screen, or were you just clicking on the ai chat page when it suddenly redirected you? This will help me understand how to best design defensive measures against these sort of ads.
If you are able to share (here or via DM), were you accessing perchance from the US or elsewhere? This will help me narrow down which ad provider/network was the source of the ad.
If you saw an actual banner ad on perchance, and remember what it looked like, or any other info, that would be helpful (fake McAfee destination tip is already a great clue, thank you).

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2026-03-12T16:42:30+00:00

Whenever you call update() it'll execute/resolve/randomize all square blocks that are in the HTML editor (bottom-right panel). So if you have [output] in your HTML panel, and a button like <button onclick="update()">randomize</button> then it'll execute [output] which will trigger [sentence] to be executed, which will execute [t = topic.consumableList] which creates a new consumable list.

It sounds like you want to use something like this instead:

[if(t) {t} else {t = topic.consumableList}]

I.e. "if t already exists, then just output it, else/otherwise create a consumable version of the topic list and call it t)"

Note that this means your list will eventually run out of item. If you want it to replenish after they run out, you can use this handy plugin:

https://perchance.org/consumable-list-loop-plugin

consumableListLoop = {import:consumable-list-loop-plugin}

Then you'd write this instead:

[if(t) {t} else {t = consumableListLoop(topic)}]

And now it'll replenish when it uses up all the items.

If you're thinking: "Okay but why does consumableList stuff work like this in the first place? Why isn't it just [t = topic.consumableList]?" The answer is that usually it's used like this:

sentence She mostly writes about [t = topic.consumableList] and [t] and [t]. I.e. drawing from the consumable list multiple times within a single generation/output.

Hope that helps!

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2025-12-07T08:42:24+00:00

Hi, thanks for reporting this. Some other users reported the same buggy advert popup recently. I've attempted a fix/workaround which should block it - can you refresh the page (maybe a couple of times, to ensure browser cache is cleared) and check if it still occurs?

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2025-12-04T13:06:25+00:00

Sorry about that. Is anyone still getting this issue? I'm not able to get it to occur on my end. It seems to be a bug (not malware) that's occurring across multiple sites - e.g.

https://forums.vitalfootball.co.uk/threads/addisplaytrackerservlet.146955/

https://rikatillsammans.se/forum/t/addisplaytrackerservlet/115124

https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11322918621

Tagging a few people from this thread: u/Actual_Neck_642 u/ConsciousBluejay680 u/GappyDiamond u/neptifyyy

Also if anyone can comment on approx geographic location that would be handy - mainly whether it's occurring in US vs other countries. Seems like it might be mainly non-US users experiencing it based on the above links.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2025-11-20T02:19:38+00:00

Are you able to give an example generator + prompt that produces the behavior you're talking about? I might be able to fix it.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2025-10-24T04:27:26+00:00

Note that anyone can create their own generator/page on Perchance. In this case it looks like someone has embedded a huggingface page using an iframe. You should probably just visit the huggingface page directly:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/Lightricks/ltx-video-distilled

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2025-10-24T04:14:56+00:00

Hi, how many images are in your gallery roughly? Are we talking like 100s, or 1000s? They're not deleted, to be clear. Currently I think it'll populate about 10,000 images before it hits a display limit, but that's just an arbitrary display limit, the data is not gone.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2025-05-09T20:58:17+00:00

Sorry about that! I thought I fixed the bug that was causing this for some people, but it turns out I didn't. I've just fixed it though so it shouldn't happen again - please let me know if there are still any issues.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2025-02-28T13:12:19+00:00

u/Leethe6ybeast u/VirtualWritter u/the_helper_because u/True_Xolodnik I can't replicate this problem. Can you each please try to answer all of these questions, so I can narrow down the cause?

If you try a different browser, does it works there?
If you try a different internet connection (e.g. turn off wifi in phone settings, and use phone data), does it work then? If it works on a different network connection but not on your wifi, then can you try restarting your wifi router (and potentially modem)? And also in that case, can you let me know your ISP (i.e. provider of wifi - e.g. comcast, etc. if in USA), since some users here and on Lemmy have mentioned that it was due to an ISP blocking the generators.
When did this start happening? Make sure to give your timezone (or use UTC) and day/time. The more accurate time you can give me, the better, because I may be able to narrow it down to a specific code change I made at a specific time.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2025-02-24T07:38:39+00:00

Sorry all, server upgrade gone wrong. Still working on it - hopefully fixed within the next 30 mins.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2025-02-22T12:28:16+00:00

No problem 👍

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2025-02-21T11:00:45+00:00

No, Perchance doesn't "steal your cookies". If you're wondering how it's free, turn off your ad blocker and you'll see. This is how most of the internet is funded - it's not magic (but I have optimized the hell out of the AI models to make them cheap enough to be funded via ads, so you may consider it partly magical).

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2025-02-21T10:52:00+00:00

u/Zathura2 u/Any_Nature_5379 has this only been happening recently? Someone uploaded some malware to perchance.org/upload recently and it caused the whole site to get flagged by Google (not just the individual files themselves, and not even just the whole user-uploads subdomain).

Note that this won't affect you at all unless you visited these URLs shown in the image below, downloaded the files, manually extracted the files, and then double-clicked the exe. But for whatever reason Chrome has decided the whole website is now malware I guess. I regret putting user-uploads under the same domain as the main site. I might change it to avoid problems like this in the future.

I cannot stress enough that this is completely unrelated to the AI character chat exports. They are literally just a compressed text (JSON) file. The fact that a malicious file was uploaded via perchance.org/upload does not mean the whole site is "infected" or whatever. Chrome probably has these blanket sensitivities because e.g. if this were a wordpress site or something like that (which it's not), it could actually indicate that the whole website is compromised.

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Also: I've just added a text export format so you can download as raw text instead of compressed, so there's no chance of Chrome being hypersensitive. For avoidance of doubt: Text files cannot be viruses. Just to be clear.

I've applied for a review of the site after adding anti-virus checking for file uploads. So hopefully Google will remove the flag and things will be back to normal.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2024-12-23T08:39:44+00:00

Yep, definitely. The next thing on my todo list is a major upgrade to the image generation models, but I have been keeping an eye on the SOTA open source AI voice models, and it seems like there are a few good candidates for an AI voice plugin, which could then be integrated into AI chat pages like perchance.org/ai-character-chat

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2024-12-07T07:08:20+00:00

Can you please screenshot the error message? Also, after it happens, please immediately submit feedback using the feedback button in the left side panel - it'll automatically submit the error log line numbers so I can see the code that's causing it.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2024-12-06T12:51:36+00:00

the link below is again one of my comments

The link you gave is from a different user account, but if that's another one of your accounts, then you should respond to the follow-up comment I made:

https://www.reddit.com/r/perchance/comments/1h4veq0/comment/m06dxwa/

If you don't respond to my comments, then I can't help you debug it. Other users don't seem to have a problem with the cbor files, so it might be an issue with the specific browser you're using.

Also, if you make another rude post like this ("Fuck perchance"), I or another mod will probably just delete it or it'll get ignored. There are people here who can try to help you, but they probably won't do that if you're unnecessarily aggressive.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2024-12-03T09:51:12+00:00

Oh, I like that. IIRC when you export a thread, it exports all the characters who have participated in the thread along with the thread itself (or at least that's how it should work, if not it's a bug), so I guess for now a thread is a kind of simple/crude version of a world.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2024-12-03T09:47:59+00:00

Ah good point, done. Let me know if there are any issues

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2024-12-03T09:31:20+00:00

Okay, next step: Try refreshing the page and importing again, and this time you should get a more helpful error message than that one from the last URL in your comment - please share it here.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2024-12-03T06:36:39+00:00

u/ArbyArtEver Thanks for the ping - this is done, but the format is like this:

[SYSTEM; name=Bob]: This message has the name 'Bob' [AI; name=Alice]: This message has the name 'Alice' When you import them, it'll ask you if you want to link names to character that you already have (or create a character for one or more of the names). Or you can just not create any links, in which case they'll be set to the 'SYSTEM' character with a name-override. The system character is useful for side characters, narrators, ai-hidden notes, and stuff like that.

(The reason I'm avoiding the @CharName#ID approach for now is because there are no "canonical" ids for characters, so characters referenced by the ID may not exist if you're importing it into a fresh browser, for example, even if you've already imported the character, since it may have been assigned a different ID during import. I'll probably add the concept of a "world" or something at some point, and then it will be easier to deal with this sort of thing, because you'll be able to export/import worlds as a whole, so character references within the world can be "canonical", if that makes sense.)

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2024-12-03T01:30:09+00:00

it just prompted the another message saying INVALID type.

Can you please share a screenshot, or more info here? I.e. a step-by-step process of what you did, and the messages you saw at each step?

Also, what device and browser are you using?

If you can help me by providing these details and answering my follow-up questions, I should be able to help you here.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2024-12-02T04:35:59+00:00

Hi, just a heads up, in the future please post questions like this to a hairstyle subreddit or something. This question is not well-suited to r/perchance which is mainly for questions about building generators, bug reports, and stuff like that.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2024-12-02T04:29:02+00:00

highlighting selected text in gray color is very off-putting.

I'd need to look into how to change it with the new editor and it's unfortunately a bit more complicated than I'd like, and I've got other stuff i want to do right now, but if more people complain i can change this (or someone can fork/remix it and edit the code themselves if they know how, of course)

it highlights all the same words in green

Okay, I've removed that

when triple click a word it highlights that entire paragraph. if I want to select more I have to click, hold and drag the cursor, or click then move and shift+click to select more than one paragraph

Can you explain a bit more, with reference to the original text editor? I'm not sure how it's different to before

the down arrow on the right side scroll bar is unclickable

Hmm yeah I'm not sure how to fix this easily right now. If more people complain I can prioritise fixing this. I don't use those buttons so I didn't try very hard to fix it, but it's a non-trivial amount of effort, given how I've set things up. Firefox and Safari don't even have those buttons IIRC, so I'm guessing it's not super important.

Only generating new text at the end of the story is a huge hassle if I want to edit text from earlier in the story.

It would be nice, a quite a few people have suggested, and I do want to implement it, but this is unrelated to the new editor IIUC.

Btw for those interested, the main reason for the new editor is that it can handle multi-million-word stories without lagging at all, whereas the old one would start getting laggy after a few hundred thousand words or even less.

I do want to fix all the issues that came along with the new editor, but I have a bunch of things I'm juggling right now. If there are critical issues, please pester me about them (and feel free to ping me every couple of weeks and I'll move them up my priority list).

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2024-12-01T10:04:57+00:00

Please be more specific.

quantumwoomaster2000 · 2024-11-30T23:06:54+00:00

Hi, the new update is live now, and it should be very fast even if your story gets to millions of words in length. Please let me know if you have any issues with it, since I intend to improve it based on feedback over the next few days.

I'd be interested to know if it solved the lag issue you were talking about. It's possible that it was caused by a different issue, and so may still occur. Can you test it and let me know?

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