Weird little pop-up thing (ad?) at the bottom of the forum pages?

engledogg

engledogg

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Hi,

Whenever I visit one of the main forum pages (https://www.allspark.com/home/forums/, https://www.allspark.com/home/forums/politics-and-religion/, etc.), I keep getting this at the bottom of the page:
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or

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It can appear either on the left or right - it's a clickable link (I didn't click on it since I'm not sure where it would take me)...is it just some type of ad or something?

It doesn't seem to happen on individual topic pages (https://www.allspark.com/home/threads/the-new-transformers-deal-thread.2486/)

I don't get it in Incognito mode (I'm using Chrome as my browser).

Oh, it's happening in Edge, as well.

This seems to be a recent development as I don't remember this happening until today.

MIKE
engledogg
 
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CoffeeHorse

CoffeeHorse

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Okay I just tried Edge. That is obnoxiously huge.

For now, I recommend using Firefox whenever it's an option. I cannot reproduce this on Firefox on desktop or mobile, but Edge is an instant nightmare.
 
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Sabrblade

Sabrblade

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I just discovered that turning my phone horizontally makes it go away.
 
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Agent X

Agent X

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This is getting ridiculous.


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And this popped up when I was just uploading the previous one, not even going to another topic like the first one!

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Chrome on mobile.
 
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Haywire

Haywire

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I'm getting a pop-up like this randomly after clicking links here. It's not even the drop-down box that has been appearing for the last few weeks (which is still on every screen), but a new form of ad that fills the whole screen. Only happening on the Allspark (but similar to ads that pop for me at brickset.com also), Samsung phone with Samsung browser. Can't seem to figure out what if anything triggers it, but seems to pop around every 5 page loads.
 
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CoffeeHorse

CoffeeHorse

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Does mobile Chrome have any way tools to inspect these things? An element inspector? Something to show if there's a particular service associated with these?
 
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Ultra Magnus13

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Came to post about this. With Chrome on mobile, the site is fast approaching borderline unusable, and has already crossed the line into feeling like a shady click bait style page, that feels like it has 3 different ad packages all running at the same time.
 
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Sabrblade

Sabrblade

Continuity Nutcase
Citizen
It's now gotten to where the big pop-up ad that covers the whole screen no longer closes when hitting the "Close" button in the top-right corner
 
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Kalidor

Kalidor

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I removed all google ads for the time being. They aren't really helping much anyway. But I don't know how much longer I can keep the lights on here. I'll do my best

Sorry for the clusterfuck
 
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