Well...speak of the devil.......an ad just opened in a new window when I Xed out of this form.
Heee's back!
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Well...speak of the devil.......an ad just opened in a new window when I Xed out of this form.
Heee's back!
Have the problem here, IMac has ad window every time I close forum, iPhone opens new ad window every time I click on anything on forum, oddly enough my old original iPad Air doesn't do it at all. Have deleted cache repeatedly and restarted devices, its no help. Im on quite a few sites and forums through the week, its only an issue here, I would suspect its the company that supplies the ads that appear on left or a single one of their ads.
Since the ads are getting around any and all protections that we have on our devices, if the culprit is the company that supplies ads to this forum, it's entirely possible that they're harvesting the IP addresses of the members and possess the means to get around those protections.
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venomballistics
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Perhaps, but in the meantime, it is a potential risk.
the popup is different in behavior than the usual suspects.
I suspect it can be maliciously redirected to a download page.
venomballistics
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Not entirely true.
I run the fox as well, It has come up as a new window.
Not with the frequency encountered on my phone, but it happens.
LVSteve
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You need to check the Notifications Settings of your browser. That's how many of these things can be blocked.
That doesn't help. Believe me, I've tried. They keep on coming both on my desktop and on my phone.
Funny how the vast majority of folks with ad problems are non-contributing members. No problems here with a simple and cheap bronze membership.
Then why are those of us that are contributing members experiencing the same problem?
CecilB
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I visit this site several times a day with my IPad using Safari and as you can see I'm not a paying member, but I haven't had any ads pop up while on the site or after signing out. Just lucky I guess.
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Another page opens regardless of whether I'm logged in or not.
It appears to be intermittent.
Some are for concealed carry and the last one was for some wacko who claims to be a medical professional full of conspiracies.
Numerous others as well.
Have not tried it on the desktop PC with Win11.
Will asap.
This first started happening on my iPhone after doing the latest upgrade... 16.6.1
These are not the typical popups.
Will run it by family that are in the data marketing business, when they return home from out of town, if it still persists.
Sadly no pages open for 25+ year old Ladies,
who are orchestral level musicians,
own a Nautor's Swan 120 and looking for
successful single guys.
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YeshuaIsa53
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Seems I've been seeing a lot of Reba McEntire lately. Have this small 4 section square following me around.
PC at home with ad blockers.
PC at home with ad blockers.
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I'm not sure who to direct this to but a little research shows some trouble shooting tips for the site manager to eliminate whatever extra code has been inserted into the site.
Removing Malicious Redirects From Your Site - Wordfence
Removing Malicious Redirects From Your Site - Wordfence
I wish I could provide a concrete answer. Like you, I am a contributing member but have none of the problems being described. I use Firefox on a Windows based PC, including my tablet, and run both McAffee and Malwarebytes. I have never experienced a pop up here or a new tab appearing.
Disable javascript
I'm a contributing member and I get one of those pop ups every day I'm logged on here. I use an iMac and the latest version of the OS.
Stu
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Perhaps one of the forum staff could contact the company that supplies the ads to see if they are somehow involved. As I mentioned previously, when I'm on the forum and check my browsing history, instead of the forum's address showing up, it says "brought to you by adsupply". It appears that the forum's page was taken over by adsupply.
Here's what it looks like:
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^^^ This ^^^ (possibly)
There are soooooo many dark, unswept corners of the electronic universe and it's hard to get duster into all of 'em.
Doesn't happen to me. Firefox on all platforms. Like everything on the internet, if it doesn't happen to everybody, and I mean everybody, it's your problem. Popup ads are driven by your browser history. If you don't like the topic that pops up, you may wish to revisit your public internet activity . . .
LVSteve
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Maybe this is why I'm ahead of the game. My computer gets the electronic equivalent of colonoscopy prep most every night.
venomballistics
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This issue is a bit different from the old school popup we all know and hate.
It's not a child window to this one. It's its own independent tab, or even another browser instance. It is such that it may be possible to leverage into an automatic download.
Firefox is not immune.
paid memberships, who are ad free can also get it.
Popup blockers do not stop it either.
I'm not sure what drives it, but it's not following the behaviors of the usual suspects
I see the identical Elon Musk ad in my hotmail spam box. Not here though. Interesting.
ditto... Elon is one of many that pop up on their own page.. hit the back arrow and tada... ugh
I can't help but suspect it has something to do with being a subscribing member - vs using a non-suscription account.
I'm at my lake place right now, and I'm logging in on an OLD Lenovo desktop computer that's running Edge on Windows 10 Pro, and I'm not seeing any of the unwanted pop-ups or ads that folks are complaining about.
Or maybe I'm just really lucky?
I'm at my lake place right now, and I'm logging in on an OLD Lenovo desktop computer that's running Edge on Windows 10 Pro, and I'm not seeing any of the unwanted pop-ups or ads that folks are complaining about.
Or maybe I'm just really lucky?
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LVSteve
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That's the nuclear option. Trouble is there are many websites that won't work without it. In fact, some websites will punish you for doing so. They set a cookie such that even if you do open up your script blocker to their site, it will still return a message saying you have no access rights. You have to go in and kill that cookie before you access the site. Easy enough on Firefox if you know what you're doing. Primary offenders in this regard are Lowe's and Home Depot if memory serves.
Oh, and if you have are making a purchase with your script blocker live, when the webpage tries to link to the financial website it needs to verify your payment info, it's all going to come to a grinding halt, or else you may get a message saying your card is declined. That's not actually what happened, but that's the other way websites like to discourage the use of script and ad blockers.
Fire HD 10 (Android/Silk)
I closed the link in Lobo's 18 point doe thread and was redirected to this.
It took me one second to close it. I want that second back.
I closed the link in Lobo's 18 point doe thread and was redirected to this.
It took me one second to close it. I want that second back.
True, but there are very few websites that I care to visit that dont work without it.
I normally use firefox with javascript disabled. I use brave on the others. That combo has been working well
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