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11-25-2018, 11:05 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 20,286
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Originally Posted by audreyh1
Try Wipr?
That stopped the problems on my iPad.
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Thanks I may. Just annoying that users have to keep adapting with newer adblockers, and I have to wonder why it's just happening with one url...
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Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 40% bonds / 10% cash
Target WR: Approx 2.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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11-25-2018, 11:20 AM
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#42
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Dutchess County
Posts: 1,599
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I have never seen an ad or had a pop up on this site from day one of joining.
Safari & Adblock plus.
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11-25-2018, 12:20 PM
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#43
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
Posts: 36,168
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Originally Posted by Midpack
Thanks I may. Just annoying that users have to keep adapting with newer adblockers, and I have to wonder why it's just happening with one url...
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I know. I've never used an adblocker before. And it was just happening at this site.
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Retired since summer 1999.
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11-25-2018, 05:05 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
Posts: 23,947
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FWIW, I was curious so I’ve been using Safari on my iPad all day today to browse this forum and a few others. Haven’t seen a single ad, much less any pop ups. So I have to say that Adblock Plus does indeed work, just as reported.
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I thought growing old would take longer.
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11-25-2018, 06:45 PM
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#45
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2018
Posts: 203
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PLEASE make it stop. This is going to start reducing members quickly.
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11-25-2018, 07:41 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 514
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If I click the first button and leave it open while opening another tab, I can view this site undisturbed. Is there risk in doing that?
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11-25-2018, 08:51 PM
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#47
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 8,355
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Only site that I get pop ups on. Something just ain’t right.
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11-25-2018, 10:02 PM
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#48
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 17,769
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Originally Posted by Kelor
PLEASE make it stop. This is going to start reducing members quickly.
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It will likely keep new visitors from returning, who won’t be able to read this thread suggesting adblockers they don’t need for other sites.
I think this ad that is not in English triggered the spam I just got—I grabbed a fast screen cap. I see only the ads across the top of the screen.
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11-25-2018, 10:07 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,476
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Pop ups take over the page and require clearing history - then recur over and over.
ER needs to fix quickly!!!
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11-26-2018, 05:49 AM
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 2
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I have been getting these pop-ups at this site and on occasion at finance.yahoo.com. I am using a iPad and I just turned off java script in safari’s configuration. No more pop-ups! This setting is at Safari->Advanced, toggle JavaScript to off.
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11-26-2018, 06:12 AM
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#51
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 8,355
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Originally Posted by LaserSailor
I have been getting these pop-ups at this site and on occasion at finance.yahoo.com. I am using a iPad and I just turned off java script in safari’s configuration. No more pop-ups! This setting is at Safari->Advanced, toggle JavaScript to off.
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Since none of the pop up blockers worked, I will give this a try.
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11-26-2018, 06:31 AM
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#52
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 8,355
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LaserSailor
I have been getting these pop-ups at this site and on occasion at finance.yahoo.com. I am using a iPad and I just turned off java script in safari’s configuration. No more pop-ups! This setting is at Safari->Advanced, toggle JavaScript to off.
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So that fix lasted a couple minutes. I couldn’t get things like login boxes to show up on other websites.
Back to where I started.
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11-26-2018, 07:00 AM
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#53
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 11,251
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No pop ups with firefox on Win 10, but instead firefox complains that a web page is slowing it down, and do I want to stop it?
That web page is ER.org, and it essentially hangs. It is probably related to what others are seeing.
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11-26-2018, 08:26 AM
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#54
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 20,286
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Originally Posted by JoeWras
No pop ups with firefox on Win 10, but instead firefox complains that a web page is slowing it down, and do I want to stop it?
That web page is ER.org, and it essentially hangs. It is probably related to what others are seeing.
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I haven't had any problems on my Win PC either. My iPad has been another story altogether, even my iOS AdBlocker stopped working after many months, so I may have to try another. Between online spam and robocallers  Ain't technology grand...
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No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions -- expressed by somebody else. Sydney Tremayne
Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 40% bonds / 10% cash
Target WR: Approx 2.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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11-26-2018, 08:36 AM
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#55
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 10,185
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Quote:
Originally Posted by COcheesehead
Since none of the pop up blockers worked, I will give this a try.
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Did you try uBlock Origin?
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11-26-2018, 10:26 AM
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#56
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 1,110
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There was a brief respite yesterday for a few hours and now it's back. I agree this is a problem the site needs to address. I visit a number of online forums regularly and this is the only one with an ongoing issue. It's been virtually unusable the last few days--you can't even click into a thread.
For all those suggesting ad blockers, that's great, but I'm not really interested in downloading this just to manage a problem that's only happening on one web forum. Unlike others, I don't really mind the ads and I know they help to generate revenue that helps support the forum.
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11-26-2018, 11:03 AM
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#57
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 812
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I've given up on my Ipad for this site, no issues with any other site and will most likely just stop visiting here as it only works when I'm on the PC. I tried adblock and wipr, works for an hour or so, then stops so really believe this is a erorg issue and not going to keep trying to fix it from my end. Best of luck to others but think it's time to move on.
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11-26-2018, 11:22 AM
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#58
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 953
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bestwifeever
I don’t know what to do with all the gift cards I’m being offered today!
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I used a couple of the gift cards to pay my IRS bill... /s
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11-26-2018, 11:40 AM
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#59
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: NC Triangle
Posts: 5,774
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Spam popup today
I hope this situation is resolved soon. I don’t own an iPad but have been thinking of buying one. The pop ups sound terrible.
For what it’s worth, most of my use of e-r.org is through i{Phone,Touch} (using the app) and Chromebook (using Chrome). I’ve had no spam pop ups at all.
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11-26-2018, 03:23 PM
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#60
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: -
Posts: 220
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(1) Fix the damn broken https security for one!
If you start at https://www.early-retirement.org you’ll start out with a secure TLS end-to-end link but as soon as you click on “new posts” it reverts to a plain-text link. Ugh! Anyone browsing this site on a public Wifi network opens their account to hacking. Don’t use the same password for this site you use for anything else.
(2) The owners of the site are failing to do due-diligence on who they sell ads. It isn’t clear they care. Ideally the site would be member-supported and no ads, but once turned over to a commercial operator that is now unlikely to ever happen.
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