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Fursty Ferret 25th May 2019 16:32

Malicious ads on mobile site
 
All PPRune pages are being hijacked by ads on my Android phone (doesn't matter if I'm signed in or not or using incognito mode). They're the kind that block the back button and have sound effects claiming prizes are waiting etc. All the domains are *.best.

Any chance you can report it to your ad provider?

AviatorDave 25th May 2019 17:22


Originally Posted by Fursty Ferret (Post 10479418)
All PPRune pages are being hijacked by ads on my Android phone (doesn't matter if I'm signed in or not or using incognito mode). They're the kind that block the back button and have sound effects claiming prizes are waiting etc. All the domains are *.best.

Any chance you can report it to your ad provider?

Are you certain that this is not a problem of your device/browser? Have you seen this on other people‘s Android devices as well?

Kiltrash 25th May 2019 18:09

Also affecting me Samsung, Android phone and the malicious ads only appear on the PPRuNe site
I am the recipitant of a super dooper Samsung device worth £877.00, alI I have to do is answer 4 questions about Google and even if I answer them all wrong I get 100% correct and after the usual email name phone number alI have to do is give them my card details to verify my age .
Looking forward to the package being delivered :8

andytug 25th May 2019 18:15

Firefox mobile browser with ublock origin add-on will protect from these, been using it for years. If you do happen to click a dodgy link it tells you and doesn't go there.

Smdts 25th May 2019 18:40

It has been happening intermittantly for a couple of months only very occasionally but has recently got much worse for me to the point now I cant browse without adblock on this site.
others reporting it too on the bt survey thread below.

EpsilonVaz 26th May 2019 08:09

I've just started experiencing this, it's on pprune only.

mullac30 26th May 2019 11:23

I've only just been affected by this since yesterday, on my LG G6, they indeed seem to be all from the .best domain.

atakacs 26th May 2019 11:45

I have seen similar issues over the past weeks and have come to the unfortunate conclusion that Pprune can only be visited with agressive ad blocking turned on. It is unfortunate because I'd like to support the site...

treadigraph 26th May 2019 18:19

Started affecting me last night as well on my Samsung phone. Still doing it today, only seems to happen on PPRuNe; Malwarebytes and Avast say phone is clean.

Downwind.Maddl-Land 27th May 2019 09:41

Same as Treadigraph

Total Pressure 27th May 2019 15:16

Same with me on android Samsung S7. Only the last few days and ad blocking apps detect it as phishing but doesn't stop it and making sure unusable on mobile.

PDR1 27th May 2019 15:26

Brand new Nokia 7plus, and I can't actually get to Pprune on it at all [due to these hijack attacks] no matter what browser or settings I use. Before this phone I had a Nokia lumia 930 Windows phone and never suffered any problems at all. If I go to this site on any of my laptops or desktop machines I get not trouble. If I put the sim card back in the Lumia I still don't have any trouble - it's just when using an android phone on this site. I've seen people complain about it and I've seen the site admins try to distract with the usual "it must be your browser or settings" twaddle which is patently untrue, and no actual action.

I think we are left to reluctantly assume that the site's owners value the income from the malicious advertisers far too much to worry about the damage they do to site-users devices.

PDR

mikemmb 27th May 2019 18:42

Same here, iPhone 5s, just cannot get rid of popups claiming I have won a prize.
Not effecting other sites.

Smdts 27th May 2019 20:59

Try brave browser.
Works awesome.

PositiveClimbGearUp 28th May 2019 02:17

Affecting me on iPhone too.

I have installed AdGuard on my phone (you also have to adjust a couple of things in your phone’s Safari settings) and it seems to have done the trick.

This link may help users experiencing the same problem:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.h...ard-pages/amp/

treadigraph 28th May 2019 09:51

Pleased to report PPRuNe on my phone is no longer plagued by the problem this morning - fingers crossed - so perhaps Ibobi and her colleagues have neutralised the problem. If so, thank you!

Downwind.Maddl-Land 28th May 2019 10:50

At the risk of repeating myself:

Same as Treadigraph

(Thanks whomsoever.....)

IBobi 28th May 2019 21:17

We keep working at it. We have a 3rd party company that helps. But it will never be 100% clear, I'm afraid.

treadigraph 28th May 2019 21:32

Like painting the Forth Bridge, eh? :) Thank you.

Smdts 29th May 2019 15:11

Thank you, adblock off again.


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