JiffyPopTart
Bree-Yark
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Today, for the first time ever, I started getting "pop-up" adds when visiting ENWorld.
The details (in case its on your end and not mine)
I am using a Nokia 6.1 Android phone. I am using Android 10, with security update May 1, 2020.
I am browsing ENWorld on the Chrome browser in Android.
I was specifically viewing the "People don't like the psionic talent die" thread, reading through multiple pages.
My phone would get a "pop-up" which on the phone is a screen takeover saying I, as a T-Mobile customer had won a prize. The browser or OS itself would then flag as a Suspicious Site and offer me a button to close out the browser section in a separate system window. If I instead used the back button on the phone and continue to read the thread the ad would show back up....happened every 45 seconds to 2 minutes.
I ran an Avast scan on my phone since this happened and it did not find anything out of the ordinary. I also do not use any sideloaded apps or root my phone, or do anything out of the ordinary with my phone.
When the warning popped up, I didn't write down the name of the intruding webpage linked to it, but it was something along the lines of BR*******Y.SPACE (where I can't remember the letters or number of letters replaced by *s)
Currently my phone is no longer popping up when I browse ENWorld so I cannot get you a better name than what I sort of remember from lunchtime today.
Not sure if the error is on your end, but I wanted to let you know about it just in case its something that intruded on you that you haven't seen yet.
Today, for the first time ever, I started getting "pop-up" adds when visiting ENWorld.
The details (in case its on your end and not mine)
I am using a Nokia 6.1 Android phone. I am using Android 10, with security update May 1, 2020.
I am browsing ENWorld on the Chrome browser in Android.
I was specifically viewing the "People don't like the psionic talent die" thread, reading through multiple pages.
My phone would get a "pop-up" which on the phone is a screen takeover saying I, as a T-Mobile customer had won a prize. The browser or OS itself would then flag as a Suspicious Site and offer me a button to close out the browser section in a separate system window. If I instead used the back button on the phone and continue to read the thread the ad would show back up....happened every 45 seconds to 2 minutes.
I ran an Avast scan on my phone since this happened and it did not find anything out of the ordinary. I also do not use any sideloaded apps or root my phone, or do anything out of the ordinary with my phone.
When the warning popped up, I didn't write down the name of the intruding webpage linked to it, but it was something along the lines of BR*******Y.SPACE (where I can't remember the letters or number of letters replaced by *s)
Currently my phone is no longer popping up when I browse ENWorld so I cannot get you a better name than what I sort of remember from lunchtime today.
Not sure if the error is on your end, but I wanted to let you know about it just in case its something that intruded on you that you haven't seen yet.
