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Strange happenings here
Posted: June 22nd, 2020, 12:08 am
by pmgolf
When I click to go to the Forum, it immediately takes me to a full page ad for something. I waited to see if it was then going to take me to the Forum but it just sat there. I back-arrowed to the courses page and clicked the Forum again. It took me there but signed me out. I had to resign on and come back to the Forum. This has happened four or five times over the last 2 days. Is something going on, Andy?
Pete
Re: Strange happenings here
Posted: June 22nd, 2020, 9:22 am
by Andy
pmgolf wrote: ↑June 22nd, 2020, 12:08 am
When I click to go to the Forum, it immediately takes me to a full page ad for something. I waited to see if it was then going to take me to the Forum but it just sat there. I back-arrowed to the courses page and clicked the Forum again. It took me there but signed me out. I had to resign on and come back to the Forum. This has happened four or five times over the last 2 days. Is something going on, Andy?
Pete
I've changed nothing here. Perhaps Google AdSense was having a bad day.
Re: Strange happenings here
Posted: June 22nd, 2020, 5:43 pm
by pmgolf
It happened again - just now. Signed me out when I paged back to get out of the ad. Google AdSense is exceeding their bounds big time! I seriously doubt if they are supposed to take over the web site!
All I did after going to the site was click on "Forum".
Pete
Re: Strange happenings here
Posted: June 22nd, 2020, 7:25 pm
by loner
It could be a browser hijack caused by Malware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_hijacking
I would run your anti-virus and
https://www.malwarebytes.com/ to see if they could find the problem.
You could delete the browser and then download a new one.
Just guessing but I hope it works.
Re: Strange happenings here
Posted: June 22nd, 2020, 8:28 pm
by Still Linksing
I often get a full screen ad on my phone I have to close out to see the site. Doesn’t log me out though and I’ve never deleted my cookies as this might get rid of it.
Re: Strange happenings here
Posted: June 23rd, 2020, 12:19 am
by Danny D
pmgolf wrote: ↑June 22nd, 2020, 5:43 pm
It happened again - just now. Signed me out when I paged back to get out of the ad. Google AdSense is exceeding their bounds big time! I seriously doubt if they are supposed to take over the web site!
All I did after going to the site was click on "Forum".
Pete
Hi Pete...
What operating system and browser are you using?
Dan
Re: Strange happenings here
Posted: June 23rd, 2020, 8:46 am
by Andy
pmgolf wrote: ↑June 22nd, 2020, 5:43 pm
It happened again - just now. Signed me out when I paged back to get out of the ad. Google AdSense is exceeding their bounds big time! I seriously doubt if they are supposed to take over the web site!
All I did after going to the site was click on "Forum".
Pete
As you appear to be the only person affected, I doubt it has anything to do with Google. Where exactly is this forum link you are having trouble with?
Re: Strange happenings here
Posted: June 23rd, 2020, 9:36 am
by Danny D
The other night when I was playing around with that Walmart Desktop shortcut, one of the things I tested was turning off my Windows 7 Firefox AD BLOCKER. When I came back to the forum, I was getting ads also. They stopped when I re-enabled my ad blocker. I use an ad blocker called "uBlock Origin". it does a wonderful job in case anyone is interested.
Dan
Re: Strange happenings here
Posted: June 23rd, 2020, 12:15 pm
by pmgolf
Andy wrote: ↑June 23rd, 2020, 8:46 am
As you appear to be the only person affected, I doubt it has anything to do with Google. Where exactly is this forum link you are having trouble with?
It's the Forum link from the main "Courses" page that opens when I go to LinksCorner.org. I just installed the Chrome version of "uBlock" that Danny mentioned. I'll post if my troubles continue. Thanks!
Pete
Re: Strange happenings here
Posted: June 23rd, 2020, 4:03 pm
by Andy
That's really odd.
I haven't installed any ad blockers for years now but I don't see the problem you have.