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PLEASE POST SCREENSHOTS of the FULL SCREEN and report your DEVICE TYPE, BROWSER TYPE AND VERSION, and COUNTRY where you are browsing from in your post.This thread is strictly for the reporting of disruptive ads, including unwanted popups, page hijscks, malware attempts, etc. related to ad content. Please refrain from discussion or speculation about technical issues if they are not reports as specified here.
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ARCHIVE: 2017 Disruptive Ads / Advertisement on FT Reports
Mar 13, 2017, 10:54 am
#166
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Last time I agreed with someone about these, all the posts got moved: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/techn...-shots-25.html
Mar 13, 2017, 11:39 am
#167
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These posts placed in the Air Canada Forum Lounge thread have been moved as the Technical Support and Feedback forum is the best place to bring concerns about accessing FT to the tech.'s attention.
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Mar 13, 2017, 11:52 am
#168
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I'll take a screenshot next time it happens, but I'm just reading a thread on my phone, not even clicking anything, and I get sent through several* redirects to some advertiser's page.
*Hitting back doesn't take me back to FT. I have to go into history and go back to the 4th last page or so due to the redirects.
Edit: This is the one: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27988022-post351.html
*Hitting back doesn't take me back to FT. I have to go into history and go back to the 4th last page or so due to the redirects.
Edit: This is the one: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27988022-post351.html
Mar 13, 2017, 11:55 am
#169
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Mar 13, 2017, 12:37 pm
#170
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Thread merged to the ad complaints thread, which includes complaints about mobile hijacks - -thank you for reporting!
Mar 14, 2017, 4:56 am
#171
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FT mobile site redirecting to spam iPhone apps
Often when I open a thread I am redirected to a URL beginning "data" which opens Apple's App Store. Sometimes going back and reloading the page avoids this but often it happens repeatedly.
In my experience this is often due to problematic ads or pixels on a site that wants to make money. Maybe it's an unscrupulous ad network which FT uses? It's not my phone because other mobile sites I visit aren't doing this...
Can Flyertalk please fix this? It's infuriating.
In my experience this is often due to problematic ads or pixels on a site that wants to make money. Maybe it's an unscrupulous ad network which FT uses? It's not my phone because other mobile sites I visit aren't doing this...
Can Flyertalk please fix this? It's infuriating.
Mar 14, 2017, 7:15 am
#172
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We've moved this to the Technical Support and Feedback forum, the best venue for these issues. We will soon mete it into the best thread.
JDiver, Co-Moderator, Technical Support and Feedback and The Suggestion Box fora
JDiver, Co-Moderator, Technical Support and Feedback and The Suggestion Box fora
Mar 15, 2017, 5:33 am
#173
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Can't we for the time being just work on a whitelist?.. Whitelisting the ad publishers that we know to be legitimate like adsense and adchoices and slowly monitor everything else before they get published?
Mar 17, 2017, 6:29 am
#174
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On mobIle just got two spam pages I can't get away from.
Annoying and frustrating. Sorry don't have screen shots. Too hard to do on mobile.
Spoiler
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Mar 19, 2017, 10:11 am
#175
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Still a problem. As is the Bubble Witch 3 Saga ad.
I can't tell you how thrilled I am that you've spent your time making sure ads are more pervasive: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/technical-support-feedback/1830137-change-some-ad-behavior-today-17-mar-2017-a.html
I can't tell you how thrilled I am that you've spent your time making sure ads are more pervasive: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/technical-support-feedback/1830137-change-some-ad-behavior-today-17-mar-2017-a.html
Mar 25, 2017, 9:36 am
#176
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Cant post image (why cant that be easier?)
Trying to reply to a thread and got hijack from Rightmartic.com
Again, FT is the ONLY place where this is happening. SAD!
I wonder, will IB pay for repair costs of someone who gets a virus from their ad network?
Trying to reply to a thread and got hijack from Rightmartic.com
Again, FT is the ONLY place where this is happening. SAD!
I wonder, will IB pay for repair costs of someone who gets a virus from their ad network?
Last edited by zitsky; Mar 25, 2017 at 9:42 am
Mar 25, 2017, 11:07 am
#177
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2) This is anomalous behavior, and I'm suspecting something other than FlyerTalk. You've not posted any details Tech can use (device, OS, browser and versions), but you might try clearing cache and cookies as a start.
Mar 26, 2017, 4:46 am
#178
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Getting spammy ads on mobile
The last few days I've been getting serious spamming ads on mobile that navigate me away from FT and won't let me simply close it and return. I have to force close chrome and start over again. They are random on FT.
Attached screen shots
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxLhI1AC5EZkLVpPUVFmZmptVWc/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxLhI1AC5EZkMExPLWNaRnVOdm8/view?usp=drivesdk
Attached screen shots
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxLhI1AC5EZkLVpPUVFmZmptVWc/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxLhI1AC5EZkMExPLWNaRnVOdm8/view?usp=drivesdk
Mar 26, 2017, 8:31 am
#179
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Still a problem.
Mar 26, 2017, 8:36 am
#180
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How do you figure that? This thread is full of all types of devices and browsers with the same problem, and only on Flyertalk.