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Help and Support => DCM Help => Topic started by: agentdynamo on July 16, 2023, 05:15:15 PM

Title: Pop-up ad every time I click a link to a comic scan page
Post by: agentdynamo on July 16, 2023, 05:15:15 PM

I heard about the previous issue with spammer virus on the comments page. I take it I should not be getting the pop up ads clicking on a DCM link, but I do.

Title: Re: Pop-up ad every time I click a link to a comic scan page
Post by: Yoc on July 16, 2023, 08:12:02 PM

Hi AD,
Thanks for letting us know.  I've tried to see if I had the same problem but everything seems fine.
I turned off any security add-ons and tried it in FireFox and Brave.  Both had zero pop-ups.

Has anyone else out there had the same problem?
AD here uses Safari on mac.  Any Mac people have something to add?
Let us know.

-Yoc

Title: Re: Pop-up ad every time I click a link to a comic scan page
Post by: agentdynamo on July 17, 2023, 06:42:05 AM

It seems to be the headline links from the home page, not the individual links. Recreated on Mac, iPad, Windows 11 with Safari, Chrome and Edge browsers.

Title: Re: Pop-up ad every time I click a link to a comic scan page
Post by: Yoc on July 17, 2023, 09:06:36 AM

I can confirm the pop-ups when using Chrome without any ad or pop-up blockers turned on.
I'm embarrassed by the number of Google Ads that are appearing.  They've gotten far worse than when I last looked at the site without ad blockers running.
:(

Title: Re: Pop-up ad every time I click a link to a comic scan page
Post by: agentdynamo on July 17, 2023, 11:49:31 AM

I can confirm installing ad blocker worked for me. It seems like the "pop-up" ads just started recently, more like a redirection until you click out of it. Pop-up blockers do not block it!

Title: Re: Pop-up ad every time I click a link to a comic scan page
Post by: Yoc on July 17, 2023, 03:27:36 PM

I think they are called 'Pop-overs'.  I have the same thing happening on my tablet when I sue a news aggregator app I used to love until this crap started happening.  I have to close the app to get back to the news.  The ads have no 'x' to click.

I had no idea anything like this was going on here on DCM.
-Yoc

Title: Re: Pop-up ad every time I click a link to a comic scan page
Post by: larrytalbot on July 18, 2023, 08:23:55 PM

I'm getting the pop-ups, too. I use Chrome  :-[

Title: Re: Pop-up ad every time I click a link to a comic scan page
Post by: Yoc on July 20, 2023, 07:47:36 AM

Hi Larry,
You might consider giving FireFox, with the NoScript add-on I'm ad free here.

-Yoc