Congratulations Pop-up

Harold_B

Harold_B

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I can’t be on the site more than a minute before the “congratulations iPad user” pop up routes me off the site. Unless I’m on my phone then it’s “congratulation iPhone user”. I give up.
 
Agreed, a pox! Life is good or relatively so. Busy like always but I’d assume that’s how it is until I can’t do what I want anymore. Hope you are doing well also Rick.

BTW - it is grossly disproportionate how much that specific pop up happens here.
 
Harold_B said:
I can’t be on the site more than a minute before the “congratulations iPad user” pop up routes me off the site. Unless I’m on my phone then it’s “congratulation iPhone user”. I give up.
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Sorry for your trouble Harold. It's certainly not intended. Trouble is, I haven't been able to reproduce it on any of my devices. A site malware scan didn't uncover anything either.

Is anyone else seeing this?
 
Harold_B said:
I can’t be on the site more than a minute before the “congratulations iPad user” pop up routes me off the site. Unless I’m on my phone then it’s “congratulation iPhone user”. I give up.
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Harold,
That stinks!

Eric, no real problems for me other than this site is slightly more sluggish than other forums I belong to. Just an observation, not really a issue and not a complaint. For what it's worth i'm using an older iMac desk top.
 
erics said:
Sorry for your trouble Harold. It's certainly not intended. Trouble is, I haven't been able to reproduce it on any of my devices. A site malware scan didn't uncover anything either.

Is anyone else seeing this?
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There is no issue on my windows laptop or Mac computer, just the mobile devices.
I should note that I am using the desktop version, not an app.
 
Mr.B. said:
Eric, no real problems for me other than this site is slightly more sluggish than other forums I belong to. Just an observation, not really a issue and not a complaint. For what it's worth i'm using an older iMac desk top.
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Thanks for the pop up reply and note on site speed. That's good to know your experience vs. other forums. I'll take a closer look at site speed.
 
Harold_B said:
There is no issue on my windows laptop or Mac computer, just the mobile devices.
I should note that I am using the desktop version, not an app.
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It's a possibility that it's a virus on your device. I guess since you are seeing it on both an iphone and ipad separately, I thought this wasn't likely. If you have recently seen it on other sites as well, this may the cause.
https://howtoremove.guide/congratulations-you-won/
 
I was super excited to see a potential solution. The link you provided is for Android devices BTW so here's a link for Apple:

https://macsecurity.net/view/254-congratulations-you-won-popup-virus

I'd love to report it fixed my problem but it doesn't or at least doesn't and still leave me with the features I want. The suggestion to turn off Java script results in the security password auto-fill no longer working. Maybe this will just increase the amount of time I spend working on my bike vs. posting about it....
 
Harold_B said:
I was super excited to see a potential solution. The link you provided is for Android devices BTW so here's a link for Apple:

https://macsecurity.net/view/254-congratulations-you-won-popup-virus
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Thanks for the proper link.

Harold_B said:
I'd love to report it fixed my problem but it doesn't or at least doesn't and still leave me with the features I want. The suggestion to turn off Java script results in the security password auto-fill no longer working.
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Dang. Thought I might have had something here.

Harold_B said:
Maybe this will just increase the amount of time I spend working on my bike vs. posting about it....
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Way to find the upside (^)

I guess we wait again for others.
 
Harold_B said:
“I guess we wait again for others.” Nope. Haven’t contributed for months and now the dam is broken! Good luck shutting me up!

I have installed the Weblock app and we’ll see how that goes. Five minutes without a pop up.
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Too funny! Fingers crossed. Although that still doesn't fully tell us whether the site is serving up something it shouldn't. The app may block a virus serving an ad just the same.
 
Harold_B said:
Agreed, a pox! Life is good or relatively so. Busy like always but I’d assume that’s how it is until I can’t do what I want anymore. Hope you are doing well also Rick.

BTW - it is grossly disproportionate how much that specific pop up happens here.
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If it got any better Harold I'd be forced to take something for it!
 
Building stuff. Building a welding table/tool cart right now with a bunch of scraps. Was gonna buy something but simply could not wait. Need all my tools in one place ready to go. Sick of spending an hour every time I go to work on stuff just moving tools around. I figure something like this will pay for itself in the time saved not moving tools as often in finishing my current bike build.
 
Greg58 said:
I too have had the pop up happen on my iPhone, I am using the app. I'm using a iPhone 6s.
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Thanks for the data point Greg. Just to clarify, which app are you using? Or are you just referring to the mobile version of the site?
 
I have a android tablet using Firefox browser and don’t have a problem. I did when I was using chrome, when chrome would not upgrade on the tablet I switched to Firefox
 
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