davidh777

I can post on my phone, but my iPad is useless.

Mondo Kane

Yup. It hasn’t been this bad for me in quite a while.

stingermck

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.

The Cow

a couple more for IB to ignore doing anything about...








This crap is TERRIBLE, it's getting WORSE, not better

Dan

^ 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.

stingermck

At least I have about ten million dollars in Amazon gift cards now. Fuck.

Maxflier

grundle

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?

Obi-Wanma

The problem is mainly (exclusively?) with the mobile version of the site

Trevor

Definitely not exclusively. I will never use the mobile version and get hijaaked a lot.

Obi-Wanma

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.

E Unit

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.

b2net

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.

stingermck

Just got 2 more back to back. Got it, closed, came back, got another.

I'm so blessed!

stingermck

And just got a 3rd going to the Why not fix the site thread

It's almost comical now how shitty this is.

Inhumans99

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.

story

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.

PhantomStranger

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.

VinVega

I don't care how big these are.

story

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.

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.

b2net

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.

Noonan

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.

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.

Noonan

Why would they? It's probably one of the only (the only?) revenue streams from this site.