They have read the complaints. I'm certain they know of the problem. Criteo (the main ad provider of this site) is known for spamming the end users. That's just how they are but the fact is IB has chosen to work with them for monetary reasons and I don't see IB dropping them, nor do I see Criteo suddenly changing their sneaky and unethical business model because of IB.

I hate it too. It's gotten to the point that I am visiting FT less each day because every time I click on an FT thread I get it.
And after closing it I never end up on the thread I was clicking on. A huge waste of time. Get rid of it please!

Ditto also! It took 10 attempts before I could actually get an FT page to fully load. It's made FT absolutely useless. Until it stops I will not be spending much time on FT. It's too frustrating!

Interesting, CodeAdam10. I did not know about that information. Thank you.

Hopefully someone from Internet Brands will give an update with the latest information pertaining to this issue.

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GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF SEEING THIS ON MY IPAD AND IPHONE, FT!!!!!!

Safari, iOS 9, mobile

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Ad blocker seems to solve the issue at least on my iPhone. I haven't used it until now because I understand FT and other sites need ads to keep them free, but this is too much. Hopefully whoever responsible rethinks if enough of us do the same.

We've consolidated the mobfree.click posts into one thread for members' and Admin's convenience.

I'll alert them so when they're in Monday they can read and be apprised on the apparently widespread problems for those using i-devices.

/Moderator

Well, here's another data point. Been getting it sporadically for 3-4 days. Using back button seems to get rid of it. Using Safari on iPad, current OS

I think it a malware rather than site issue. I had the monfree popup problem but I restore a backup to my last state. And now mobfree is not happening on my android device.

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).