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@fisha - you are missing the point which is to prove where the problem originates.
@highpig Thanks for trying
I don't get popups/redirects using my iPad, apparently some do. It does mainly seem to be a problem with Android.
Appears that way whitestione.
Or any of you using an Apple device, if so what, which model and which iOS?
No issues on my iPhone 5se but I have pop ups blocked in settings. I don’t get notified that one has been blocked though.
No issues on my iPhone 5se but I have pop ups blocked in settings.
Well, duh. 🤖
Just checking how things are today, got 9 pop ups blocked and a couple of redirects to a new phone within the time it takes to find this thread and moan again about not being g able to use this forum. Is anything being done to sort this out beyond telling us we're doing something wrong?
Doesn't Android have a setting to block pop-ups?
I checked my phone (iPhone 5) and I have the pop-ups blocked in settings, I'm assuming that I've also done this on the iPad. I turn everything off that I don't need or aren't essential to displaying a site, pop-ups definitely come into that category.
Is anything being done to sort this out beyond telling us we’re doing something wrong?
STW responding to user feedback? Have you taken leave of your senses?
I get around 9 popups blocked on this site on every other visit or so - android blocks the popups but notifies me of there creation.
This has been since the new site build so assuming it's an issue with that.
20 blocked! A new record for me.
I think 25 is the current highest overall.
Yup had 25 or so blocked today - on Android as above only here 😒
It is ****ing diabolical and I barely use the site on mobile now.
Maybe not just me, looking at how much traffic has dropped.
I tend to log on and get a few minutes before I start getting swamped, and yep on a android phone. There is no other website that causes this issue, just STW. I'm not offay with what causes this issue, but I can't fathom why STW just doesn't do what every other website I use does and stop it!
And with that I'm off again....
Several popups blocked and two redirects in less than 5 mins.
Another ****ing one on the return to chat page. ****ing ridiculous. Ficking stupid state on affairs.
redirected 5 times to ( not pop ups but full redirects taking me to another site that then tries to hijack the phone) in a 3 hr train journey. Each time very difficult to get rid of the redirect.
I really think STW are in a real bad place over this. Traffic dropping so they cannot afford to turn of any ad networks or they go bust but the ads are causing more folk to reduce their posting.
I think we the content creators without whom there would be a vastly reduced income to STW are being treated with contempt
I think we the content creators without whom there would be a vastly reduced income to STW are being treated with contempt
Just so long as you're not a customer 😀
Getting swamped with redirection ads when browsing on my Nexus tablet that are often stopping me from going back to a thread, to the point where I'm going to stop visiting STW on it, but fine on my PC.
I feel like I'm possibly missing out on something here, although I do have pop-ups blocked in my browser settings (iPad safari).
dont all browsers have this function/option? Having a counter seems a bit strange unless there's a hidden victim league championship going on, in which case I'm probably not missing anything 😃
Android has a counter. Maybe an indicator to how dodgy the site is.
Almost got to read half a page before 6 pop ups blocked and the free phone redirect. STW continues unusable then, gonna give up even trying soon.
AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH
Not saying there isn’t an issue as clearly something is up but neither my iPhone or iPad has pop up blocked even when logged out I don’t get them. Funny thing is I do on some newspaper website and others.
My phone has just gone absolutely mental.....on this site alone. What a shit show.
Was using Chrome on Android and it was a constant issue, since moving to Another Browser, I've no issues at all...
Not saying there isn’t an issue as clearly something is up but neither my iPhone or iPad has pop up blocked even when logged out I don’t get them. Funny thing is I do on some newspaper website and others.
Everyone else on this thread, self included, ONLY have this problem with this site. One user even had a porn pop up while browsing in a public place. This has been going on for quite a while now and yet nothing, nothing* has been said by way of apology/remedy/explanation. See also the Forum Update thread.
*Yes, I know, the mods have been wearily, thanklessly trying to paper over the cracks.
I’m aware of that Captain cheers.
the silence is reading tho 🙈🙉🙊
A digital sub is £15.
Nothing of note to add, so removed it
A digital sub is £15.
But everyone already contributes by being the market advertisers pay for and by freely contributing content that is subsequently used to drive more readers.
And the £15 Is for a magazine that many don't read. The forum Is, apparently, merely coincidental to that.
Go on Jimjam, flounce, please. Sadly it's the reasonable, balanced folk who are leaving whilst the determined ban dodgers, conspiracy theorists, trolls, deluded, disgraced, water-off-duck's-back Internet warriors have the will to fight on.
*sings "Into the valley..."*
I've done my bit to keep the posting rate up to today, I've felt poorly. I'm feeling better this eveing though so can't be counted on tomorrow - do something Mark, Chips and Co., this is all feeling a bit Bikemagic.
Android and chrome, same issues as everyone else. SwiftKey has never worked. The site is the worst written I've ever been a part of. I just don't understand it when it was excellent before and was the site I used the most.
I used to get occasional, but regular, popups prior to the site rebrand.
In the last day or two, things have gone ballistic - surprised I was able to make this post.
(Android, BTW)
Edukator
Go on Jimjam, flounce, please. Sadly it’s the reasonable, balanced folk who are leaving whilst the determined ban dodgers, conspiracy theorists, trolls, deluded, disgraced, water-off-duck’s-back Internet warriors have the will to fight on.
*sings “Into the valley…”*
I’ve done my bit to keep the posting rate up to today, I’ve felt poorly. I’m feeling better this eveing though so can’t be counted on tomorrow – do something Mark, Chips and Co., this is all feeling a bit Bikemagic.
Pardon?
Walmart redirects now.
Incredibly slow and full of crap, I visit less and less.
Is the problem not with the ads that get served once all the 'sensible' ads have been used up? Maybe other sites just stop serving ads at that point before getting to the bottom of the barrel
For some reason I notice that even when signed out I don't get the dodgy stuff but that might be because I'm not UK so just don't get served them because I don't match the profile.
Been away for a while, back today, read three topics and get a redirect thing. Not the progress I was hoping for.
Followed quickly by another. Oh dear.
I’ve felt poorly
Clearly.
I’m not sure if you love jimjam, hate jimjam or have just transmitted an encrypted message to the Russians.
It must be my lucky day- so far I've been personally selected to win two phones and a bunch of amazon vouchers.
Yes, I know, the mods have been wearily, thanklessly trying to paper over the cracks.
They're considerably better people than the jokers at STW.
This site is an absolute dogs dinner, my pop-up blocker going frequently mental stopping dozen after dozen of spam attacks, slowing my device.
Unusable last night, a complete joke, virus' are less intrusive than this site. I've no idea whats going on in STW Towers, but in the old days they would have posted pretty promptly saying they were sorting it out, now radio silence .....................................................................................................................................
🙁
You all realise... Having a P means no popups 🙂
You realise when all the non-Ps leave, STW will be dead and then bust in a very short space of time.
more so than it is already ? It's already being dragged around by it's arms like it's body has been ripped in half.