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Old 12-25-17 | 06:54 PM
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I can post on my phone, but my iPad is useless.
Old 12-25-17 | 11:48 PM
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Yup. It hasn’t been this bad for me in quite a while.
Old 12-26-17 | 12:08 PM
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God dam fix this site. I'm on vacation for the week and browsing exclusively on mobile. Nothing but takeovers every single time.

No wonder this site is dead. May be time to go to Blu more often.
Old 12-26-17 | 12:35 PM
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a couple more for IB to ignore doing anything about...








This crap is TERRIBLE, it's getting WORSE, not better
Old 12-26-17 | 01:43 PM
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^ that's exactly what I've been getting. It's the worst because the only option is to click the ad (fuck that shit) or close the entire browser, reopen it, and try to close the tab before the ad loads again. You can't just close the tab when the ad pops up because it greys everything out.
Old 12-26-17 | 05:42 PM
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At least I have about ten million dollars in Amazon gift cards now. Fuck.
Old 12-26-17 | 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by stingermck
At least I have about ten million dollars in Amazon gift cards now.
Old 12-26-17 | 10:35 PM
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I'm using Firefox on a desktop PC, and I'm not getting any of these prizes or gift cards.

What are you people doing, and how I can get these valuable awards?
Old 12-27-17 | 05:50 AM
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The problem is mainly (exclusively?) with the mobile version of the site
Old 12-27-17 | 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Obi-Wan Jabroni
The problem is mainly (exclusively?) with the mobile version of the site
Definitely not exclusively. I will never use the mobile version and get hijaaked a lot.
Old 12-27-17 | 08:50 AM
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Ok, but I've never once gotten a browser hijack from the desktop version of the site. I rarely browse the site on mobile devices, but I've seen them when I have.
Old 12-27-17 | 09:46 AM
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Whatever has been going on, they seemed to have done something to fix it, at least for now. It’s now working fine on my Safari browser on my iPhone. That, or I maxed out my Amazon gift card winnings.
Old 12-27-17 | 10:09 AM
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It isn't fine. I think it all depends on the random ads themselves. I just got a hijack a few minutes ago. Some days nothing and other days constant

It sucks for those of us sticking around and for all the traffic it has driven away from this forum.
Old 12-27-17 | 02:05 PM
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Just got 2 more back to back. Got it, closed, came back, got another.

I'm so blessed!
Old 12-27-17 | 02:07 PM
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And just got a 3rd going to the Why not fix the site thread

It's almost comical now how shitty this is.
Old 12-28-17 | 12:31 PM
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Re: Ads redirecting me to cam girl site MERGED

The past few days lots of us had time to hit DVD Talk and post, but I basically stayed away from the site for at least 2 days due to the nasty browser hijack rerouting you to a spam/phishing site so I suspect that their page view or whatever metrics for Sunday - Wednesday are not good.

This site and a political blog called Outside The Beltway that I really like have had this issue way to often in the past 12 months, and any site in the year 2018 that hijacks and routes you to a phishing site deserves to be forced to go out back, cut down a switch take the whipping they will receive like a kid in the Deep South.
Old 12-28-17 | 08:20 PM
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They're so bad tonight I'm getting one after being on the site for ten seconds every time. This is the now fifth time I've tried to enter this post before I'm interrupted by it again.
Old 12-28-17 | 08:38 PM
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My desktop browser (Firefox) got hijacked earlier today for the first time ever using this site. Thinking back, it's probably the first time my browser has been hit by anything like this in nearly a decade, from any site.
Old 12-28-17 | 10:38 PM
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I don't care how big these are.



Old 12-29-17 | 10:51 AM
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Re: Ads redirecting me to cam girl site MERGED

Why is this your ad partner? Why work with hijacking fake bait? What are you hoping to get out of this?

May I tell you what you're getting out of this? A user base that is shrinking in numbers and growing in frustration and, my guess, not much revenue because your users are too smart to click fake bait that hijacks their browser over and over again.

Is this what you hope to get out of your ad partnership? If so, we'd like to speak with you about that. If not, please find a new ad partner.
Old 12-29-17 | 11:07 AM
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This site is absolute fucking garbage on mobile. Last night I kept getting both screens that VinVega posted. At least a dozen times in a row after closing and re-opening the site and going into a thread. After that, I said fuck it and and just hopped on some other forums.
Old 12-29-17 | 11:17 AM
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Just now when I typed in forum.dvdtalk.com, Google Chrime on my mobile lists the site as Reward Center. I bet it is because of the last redirect...

I should have taken a screenshot.
Old 12-29-17 | 11:39 AM
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Re: Ads redirecting me to cam girl site MERGED

Originally Posted by mattysemo247
This site is absolute fucking garbage on mobile. Last night I kept getting both screens that VinVega posted. At least a dozen times in a row after closing and re-opening the site and going into a thread. After that, I said fuck it and and just hopped on some other forums.
Same. And it doesn't appear like using the full site on mobile is any better than using the mobile layout. Ads happen all the time in either.
Old 12-29-17 | 11:47 AM
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Re: Ads redirecting me to cam girl site MERGED

Oddly my issues seemed to mostly stop after I complained this weekend. I think I’ve had the redirects happen a couple times but it’s not taking over whenever I try to do anything like before. Still though I wish the people in charge would just do whatever it takes to get rid of the shit for good.
Old 12-29-17 | 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Mike86
Oddly my issues seemed to mostly stop after I complained this weekend. I think I’ve had the redirects happen a couple times but it’s not taking over whenever I try to do anything like before. Still though I wish the people in charge would just do whatever it takes to get rid of the shit for good.
Why would they? It's probably one of the only (the only?) revenue streams from this site.


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