No, it is a FT site issue. I browse several other forums that are mismanaged by IB, and none of them have any issues with these annoying pop ups. There is something with IB and there specific ad company they have partnered with on this site.

For people in iPhone, go to the App Store and download Crystal immediately. With iOS 9, apple implemented ad blocking in Safari. Crystal is holy rated, I've used it, and it's worked without problems for me. Note: I have zero connection or interest - just a happy user.

For people on Mac OS X, disable and uninstall Adobe Flash. If there are websites you must use that have to have flash enabled, access those websites using Chrome. Use Safari, Firefox, or anything else for your regular browsing and disable pop ups. Not a trouble-free solution, but you should be bothered less.

Then I guess they or IB fixed the issue while I restored my backup, because I am not getting redirected to mobfree.click anymore after I restored my iphone backup.

Good to know that my iphone was not infected with malware or some other viruses....

By the way, this is not a "popup", .... this is a "redirect", which is way worse than "popup"... thus my suspicion on malware activity.

It's nothing about malware. It's all about FT allowing their ad partners to serve up whatever javascript they want and one of them is abusing it. I tried to dig deeper but it's not very productive for me to use Firefox on Windows to investigate a behavior targeted for mobile devices. The most I learned is how FT serves up user IDs to the ad companies, allows the ad companies to serve whatever javascript they want, most of which is highly obfuscated and/or targeted for specific OSes and/or web browsers. What looks to the naked eye as a simple image is anything but underneath. It really causes me to start using ad blockers (and use then everywhere, both in terms of websites and all my devices/computers).

It is now popping up almost every third page I open on FT.

Absolutely unacceptable.

Now another one...
 

The app one is now alternating with diplomasondime.com This one is similar to the mob click. Don't know how to screenshot on an iPad.

Is there any plan to stop this or do I need to find another site to wile away the hours on?

I was only getting it on my iphone last week. Now I'm getting it on my browser (Firefox), too. Makes FT unusable.

Yep. I am now getting that same diplomasondime.com redirect, too.:mad::mad:

Hi everyone,

It is our sincere hope that as of this morning (PT), we have licked this one.

If not, please let us know!

Paul

Are you guys sure the other url is diplomasondime.com

as is "diplomas on dime" ?

Much better...only appeared once this evening on an iPad. Thank You.

Yes, that was it. My eyes kept wanting to add an "a" in the URL, but it's not there.;)

Have not seen any of the redirects today.

Thought it was gone.

Just redirected me twice in 3 clicks to links of on this forum.

iPad.