Virus on pprune
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Virus on pprune
G'day everyone
I'm a frequent looker at pprune. It appears as though there is a virus. Some links when I click aftera few minutes I get redirected to a draw for s free Ipad/iPhone. Sometimes it says apple free, other times tpg/Optus etc. I'm not even with either carriers.
Does anyone experience the same or similar? It's only pprune
Any thoughts?
I'm a frequent looker at pprune. It appears as though there is a virus. Some links when I click aftera few minutes I get redirected to a draw for s free Ipad/iPhone. Sometimes it says apple free, other times tpg/Optus etc. I'm not even with either carriers.
Does anyone experience the same or similar? It's only pprune
Any thoughts?
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Opera Mini Browser (IOS & Android) may help.
A separate but compatible Opera VPN VPN app (IOS & Android) blocks ads at Opera's own server level. Other installed browsers will also have their traffic directed down this VPN tunnel, so it can be installed independently, however YMMV.
My own experience is this VPN solution blocks that annoying particular ad.
Opera desktop browser (using it to type this) offers this VPN build right into the browser and can be toggled with the click of a mouse, and several different endpoints (US, Canada, Singapore, Netherlands and Germany). Opera is a customised version of Chromium, which is also the source of google Chrome.
A separate but compatible Opera VPN VPN app (IOS & Android) blocks ads at Opera's own server level. Other installed browsers will also have their traffic directed down this VPN tunnel, so it can be installed independently, however YMMV.
My own experience is this VPN solution blocks that annoying particular ad.
Opera desktop browser (using it to type this) offers this VPN build right into the browser and can be toggled with the click of a mouse, and several different endpoints (US, Canada, Singapore, Netherlands and Germany). Opera is a customised version of Chromium, which is also the source of google Chrome.
PPRuNe is almost unusable on my iOS devices due to these embedded ad redirects. Would be great if our hosts could get rid of whatever ad provider is causing it!
Why they haven't binned the ad provider I'll never know. The silence from admin has been deafening.
Fat lot of good it will be having advertising when everyone gives up on PPrune.
A quick-but-annoying way to avoid the pop-ads on an iOS device seems to be to let the page load, then immediately refresh it and press the 'X' to stop the entire page reloading. It isn't a long-term solution by any means, but it does mostly work.
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If you scroll down to the bottom and select "view full site" it appears to solve the problem. The issue only seems to exist on the "mobile" version of the site. This was reported many months ago in the "computers" sub-forum, so it is not new, but it appears to have resurfaced recently.
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Reported to PPRuNe Technical Administration.
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Hi everyone. We work to combat these ads, but we also require help from you. To pinpoint them, it is most helpful if you post a screenshot of the ad/redirect site, and tell us your browser/operating system.
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This is a problem with other bulletin boards as well as Prune.
I've found with the iPad/iPhone I've got to sign in to stop it happening, bit of a pain, sometimes.
DIVOSH!
I've found with the iPad/iPhone I've got to sign in to stop it happening, bit of a pain, sometimes.
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