Spamming redirects on this site.

[Argyle Edison]

This has been happening for some time now sporadically, but it has become quite frequent lately. Happens on my iPhone 6s and only happens on this site.

Screen shot attached.

Anyone else getting this ?

 

[mustangr2]

There was another post about this not too long ago. Quite a few people are running into this.

 

[TEujunga]

This seems to happen to everyone using Safari on an iPhone to access the website. If there's a way to get it to stop, I haven't found it yet.

The solution seems to be to use a different browser, or access the forum through the Tapatalk app.

 

[KP Texan]

I have the same issue as well.

 

[Kenstaroni]

Happened to me a few times yesterday on my phone...andriod with chrome browser.

 

[e60ral]

use tapatalk

 

[alico268]

use tapatalk

Might have to succumb to that app to get rid of the problem OP is describing. Though, I was annoyed by the Tapatalk app as it would present itself as a popup every time I visited a forum.

I prefer my interfaces to be the full-fledged desktop versions on my phone and not a foreign looking summation, but I'm old and fearful of AI robots taking over, so there's that.

 

[Raptor008v2]

I thought it was just me. That perhaps I just had some spyware on my phone. Android user here.

 

[MattAK]

I'd been seeing this issue on various sites, not just here. I have a Pixel 2 XL and use Chrome exclusively. Knock on wood but I haven't seen the issue after following the steps listed in this Android Police article. Worth giving a shot as I prefer to use almost anything over Tapatalk.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/11/08/heres-protect-rogue-redirect-ads-right-now-chrome/

 

[nglayton]

A site owners gotta pay for all this bandwidth somehow....spamming the users with ads is one way to gitter' done!

 

[Engineer]

Same thing here

 

[TEujunga]

Wow, I didn't realize it was across platforms and on different sites as well.

A site owners gotta pay for all this bandwidth somehow....spamming the users with ads is one way to gitter' done!

But if it makes the site unusable, that kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?

 

[cbreze]

Nothing yet(knock wood)and I use both Android and IOS.

 

[nglayton]

But if it makes the site unusable, that kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?

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