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11-23-2018, 08:38 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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I can no longer access this website using Safari on my IPad. I get redirected to these gift card spam sites every time. I have pop up blockers turned on. The iOS app is the only way for me to get to the site now. Has anyone found a way to block these on an IPad?
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11-23-2018, 08:40 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Suuuuuuper annoying.
FIX IT!
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11-23-2018, 08:42 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
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Originally Posted by Ready
I can no longer access this website using Safari on my IPad. I get redirected to these gift card spam sites every time. I have pop up blockers turned on. The iOS app is the only way for me to get to the site now. Has anyone found a way to block these on an IPad?
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The Wipr app is working for me. $1.99 It uses the native Safari API for content blockers. Once you download and open it, it instructs you to configure a few things in Safari (in settings) and then run it. Then those ads causing the popup redirects are gone!
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11-24-2018, 05:51 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Happening so often on this site only that it is almost unusable. Using an IPad.
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11-24-2018, 05:59 AM
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Location: Land of Florida Man
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Originally Posted by braumeister
Do you have an ad blocker on your iPhone?
I use AdBlock Plus and I never see these things.
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I downloaded Adblock Plus (free) to my iPad and have had no new pop-ups
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11-24-2018, 06:33 AM
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I can see that an adblocker will help but it is worrisome thst this is the only site that I ever get bombarded with these. I wonder if there’s some vulnerability here that other sites have managed to fix. Or maybe I just need to get out more.
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11-24-2018, 06:39 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by Bestwifeever
I can see that an adblocker will help but it is worrisome thst this is the only site that I ever get bombarded with these. I wonder if there’s some vulnerability here that other sites have managed to fix. Or maybe I just need to get out more.
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It’s the only site I was having the problem with. Now no ads due to Wipr.
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11-24-2018, 06:43 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by MichaelB
I downloaded Adblock Plus (free) to my iPad and have had no new pop-ups
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DH did some research to pick an ad blocker and found that Adblock Plus was not using the native Safari content blocker API and having some problems with latest iOS Safari versions which is why we chose Wipr.
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11-24-2018, 07:00 AM
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I've been using Adblock Plus for quite a while on my phone and it definitely uses Apple's native Safari API. Maybe you read something about an older version or a different similar app? I've seen negative comments about one called Adguard, so maybe that's what you saw?
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11-24-2018, 07:02 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: Southern California
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I've used a variety of adblockers in the past and while they work they seem to create other problems for me. This is the only site I'm having the problem with, and only on my Ipad. I think it's fixable on the admin side but may take some research to figure out the right settings.
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11-24-2018, 07:14 AM
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Grrrrr. This is soooo annoying! I don’t want a d*mn Walmart anything.
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11-24-2018, 07:20 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: Champaign
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Ad blockers are great, yet some news sites ask you disable them because that's how they make money to stay alive. I feel guilty sometimes because they're really good sites, LA Times does that. I don't disable.
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11-24-2018, 07:46 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Rio Grande Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by braumeister
I've been using Adblock Plus for quite a while on my phone and it definitely uses Apple's native Safari API. Maybe you read something about an older version or a different similar app? I've seen negative comments about one called Adguard, so maybe that's what you saw?
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I’ll pass that along to DH.
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11-24-2018, 08:04 AM
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No problem on Windows or Android, but I've got "uBlock Origin" on both. That's available for Apple as well.
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11-24-2018, 10:10 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: Houston
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Getting terrible spam pop ups today on the iPad. Forum is unusable.
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11-24-2018, 10:18 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by soupcxan
Getting terrible spam pop ups today on the iPad. Forum is unusable.
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Try an ad blocker like Wipr. That is working for me. What a relief!!!
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11-24-2018, 01:18 PM
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Wondered what all of this was about, until this morning when I came here on my iPad using the Safari browser, while backing up my Windows laptop (which is what I use here nearly all the time).
WOW!! What an annoying pop-up. I agree with soupcxan, the forum is just unusable using the Safari browser in IOS 12.1 . It just won't go away, although I admit that I haven't tried adding extra ad blocker software like Audreyh1 suggests. But when I went to other websites such as reddit, the pop-up wasn't there.
So far it doesn't appear at all here at the ER Forum on my Windows 10 laptop, using the Edge browser with its built in popup blocker. Score one for Windows 10 (but subtract 1000 for its continual updating fiascos)
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11-24-2018, 01:31 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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uBlock Origin is DA Bomb as a popup blocker.
Just sayin'  .
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11-25-2018, 10:49 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MichaelB
I downloaded Adblock Plus (free) to my iPad and have had no new pop-ups
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Originally Posted by Ready
I've used a variety of adblockers in the past and while they work they seem to create other problems for me. This is the only site I'm having the problem with, and only on my Ipad. I think it's fixable on the admin side but may take some research to figure out the right settings.
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I've reached the point that I won't open ER.org on my iPad, I get spam almost immediately every time now. I don't fire up the PC (no spam there) nearly as often as my iPad.
This happened to me before, but I installed AdBlock Plus on my iPad and it fixed the problem. But it was a version that did not allow me to list exceptions (whitelist), so I switched to the Norton AdBlock for iOS and that has worked fine for months. Then all of a sudden I can't open ER.org on my iPad without spam. It is not happening on any other site or webpage...
So for whatever reason, AdBlock for iOS isn't working anymore, and it is an up to date version.
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11-25-2018, 10:56 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midpack
I've reached the point that I won't open ER.org on my iPad, I get spam almost immediately every time now. I don't fire up the PC (no spam there) nearly as often as my iPad.
This happened to me before, but I installed AdBlock Plus on my iPad and it fixed the problem. But it was a version that did not allow me to list exceptions, so I switched to the Norton AdBlock for iOS and that has worked fine for months. Then all of a sudden I can't open ER.org on my iPad without spam. It is not happening on any other site or webpage...
So for whatever reason, AdBlock for iOS isn't working anymore, and it is an up to date version.
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Try Wipr?
That stopped the problems on my iPad.
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