If you are on Windows you should probably do some adware/malware/virus scans and check your plugins for your browser. That looks like some ad injection mumbo jumbo.
Unless you weren't logged in of course. Then yeah that seems weird and unlike them to have ads like that.
But really, if you were logged in when you saw that you should probably do some scanning. That looks like a sketchy injected ad.
This is probably not an injected ad, but rather something being served up by a shady ad partner. I'll see what I can do about it. I've clicked on them before and as far as I can tell they're more likely to have you wind up with an ask.com toolbar than any malware, but I still fucking hate them.
I get these as well, and I have no idea why. I don't visit any weird websites or download any weird things. I've even totally reinstalled windows and reformatted, and I still get them here, and on other sites. Really annoying.
I get these as well, and I have no idea why. I don't visit any weird websites or download any weird things. I've even totally reinstalled windows and reformatted, and I still get them here, and on other sites. Really annoying.
Lots of internet (and otherwise) ad companies/customers of ad companies are compromised of really grimy people whose sole goal is to trick people into clicking buttons (since many ads, and the revenue associated with them, are based on clicks, not just views) so they do this kind of stuff (putting what looks like download buttons in ads to trick less internet-savvy people into clicking them). These types of ads often slip through due to sheer volume, especially when it comes to Google-served ads, which are what a significant number of sites use (Google is first and foremost an advertising company after all, that's where they make a lot of their money).
Edit: for those wondering why I suggested to check your extensions, this is why:
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