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Old Dec 15, 2016 | 2:21 am
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boutela
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Originally Posted by memesweeper
When using this forum on iOS periodically I get a screen refresh (from embedded page data, not a hosted page) which pops up a fake 'open this in App Store' dialog ... pressing anything then tries to send you off elsewhere (hint: hit back in Safari to avoid). You can try and renter the thread and probably won't see the same problem but 'last read' position is lost. Super annoying. Could a mod raise this with the site owners/hosters? Almost certainly a malware laden third party ads server is the cause.
This. This trick has been seen several times now—it was Game of War, among other things—and every time it pops up I have to stop reading FT on mobile for a few weeks until it goes away again. Can't IB identify the cause/vector?
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