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  • openwell

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    Every page I visit and each time I change to another on my android phone,
    I get a pop-up INFOLINKS BOX telling me how emerging website can monitize their sites!

    Anyone else in the same boat?

    Can Admin fix?

    or do I need a new ap on phone to block it?

    my browser allows me to make it as an Ad, but it still appears as a large empty box @bottom of screen.

    HELP???

    many thanks,

    sounds political or something......
     

    BehindBlueI's

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    It's probably not the site and it's probably not your phone. It's probably one of the Google provided ads. See: Malvertising if you want a deeper dive, but basically some ads can hijack your browser for scummy/scammy purposes.
     

    openwell

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    I use my android phone to look at the site all the time, like right now. Never seen anything like that

    if I wait to login about 30 seconds or so- I get this popup

    Get the best of INDIANA GUN OWNERS delivered to your inbox weekly – for FREE!

    and before that,
    at bottom Infolinks popup with Ad for subway sandwiches or
    Dasani, coke brand bottle water.

    sure sounds like I'm visiting some really bad site. yep

    Some others must be getting this too?
     

    Route 45

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    if I wait to login about 30 seconds or so- I get this popup

    Get the best of INDIANA GUN OWNERS delivered to your inbox weekly – for FREE!

    and before that,
    at bottom Infolinks popup with Ad for subway sandwiches or
    Dasani, coke brand bottle water.

    sure sounds like I'm visiting some really bad site. yep

    Some others must be getting this too?

    Post a screenshot? I don't get any popups on my iPhone or PC.
     

    openwell

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    Post a screenshot? I don't get any popups on my iPhone or PC.

    trying to attach screen
    top image says:
    Get the best of INDIANA GUN OWNERS delivered to your inbox weekly – for FREE!

    bottom is infolinks popup
     
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    BehindBlueI's

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    trying to attach screen
    top image says:
    Get the best of INDIANA GUN OWNERS delivered to your inbox weekly – for FREE!

    bottom is infolinks popup

    I'll see the 'newsletter' thing if I check INGO from a computer I'm not logged on with. Never noticed the Infolinks thing, but it's just an ad server.
     

    JettaKnight

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    Google "infolinks" and you'd think it's the best thing every. You have to go to page four before there's any disparaging web site link.

    A Duck Duck Go search shows it to be a a toxic malware.
     

    Dmac22

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    I do get these occasionally when I log on. But once I’ve been on a while or click on a post it doesn’t come back. I’m on an IPhone. So I don’t think it’s phone or operating system specific.
     

    ArcadiaGP

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    It's on your phone. Don't visit or click on the links on unsavory websites.

    InfoLinks is one of the many advertising engines attached to this site for members that aren't logged in.

    Openwell shouldn't be seeing them when logged in, but they will be there, among many others, when logged out (and in a browser that isn't blocking all that ****)

    "Malware" is an accurate word to describe it, as ads like this can very often lead to, or be hijacked by, malicious sources.
     

    openwell

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    InfoLinks is one of the many advertising engines attached to this site for members that aren't logged in.

    Openwell shouldn't be seeing them when logged in, but they will be there, among many others, when logged out (and in a browser that isn't blocking all that ****)

    "Malware" is an accurate word to describe it, as ads like this can very often lead to, or be hijacked by, malicious sources.

    thanks,

    I see the infolinks Ads the very first second I open INGO site because I clear ALL cookies & am not signed in yet.

    I only get infolinks on INGO site. If I don't signin or just browse for 30 sec. I then get that INGO NEWSLETTER popup so that both block my phone view.
    Guess that it's good to know that it is attached to the site to reach non-members and guys like me that auto-clear cookies on exit on my phone.
    thank you.
     

    Cameramonkey

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    I just saw it. But it was before my browser had logged me in. Once I logged in it stopped showing it.
     

    openwell

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    Very funny :):
    my phone browser logs me out of every
    site each time I close it thankfully!

    seems INGO has signed up with infolinks which is OK.
    they are a free site & does not collect dues.

    I"m thankful my phone does not have
    any Malware

    and INGO also has no Malware

    all is OK
     

    DoggyDaddy

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    Very funny :):
    my phone browser logs me out of every
    site each time I close it thankfully!

    seems INGO has signed up with infolinks which is OK.
    they are a free site & does not collect dues.

    I"m thankful my phone does not have
    any Malware

    and INGO also has no Malware

    all is OK

    My phone occasionally logs me out of INGO, but as soon as I start to enter my user id, it auto fills the rest and logs me back in. The only time my computer logs me out is when I run Spybot and that's just because I have a setting messed up to prevent it. Darned upgrades... :): But I rarely access INGO from my phone. Too hard to type on the tiny little "keyboard".
     
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