I’m sorry I have to write this, but I need your help, especially if you are an Apple products user, such as iPad or iPhone. I have been getting complaints from people that visit WUWT for a few days now that have been saying they have been getting these fake “Google” pop-up ads that redirect to another website, making it nearly impossible to read articles on WUWT.
I don’t own a single Apple product, so I can’t check, but I did verify with WordPress engineers that the problem exists, and is real. They think they finally have it locked down, but I need some help to check. So if you have either of these devices (seems to be a mobile device issue only) please check WUWT now and tell me if you see anything like this:
If you still see something like, please leave a comment and provide as much details as you can. If you have an Apple product, and you aren’t seeing this sort of ad, that information is useful too.
Thanks. I’m sorry for the trouble, I have no control over this.
Anthony
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iPad iPhone not seeing it. Don’t recall seeing it. But might have once in last couple of weeks. East coast Canada
I can get to WUWT from my Crapple iPhone 7, no popup ads like you describe, but very slow though. This comment posted from a PC on a corporate network.
iPhone, NSW Australia, no problems.
iPhone 6 and Safari: no problem
I did get one on my Android phone a week ago, and I think it was on this site reading through Feedly. Haven’t had one since. Slammed it closed and went my way so no details.
No problems iPhone 5/6, mine or my wife’s, Canada.
I had it happen a few days ago with my iPad, but tonight no problem.
Hi Anthony,
No issue on either an iPad or iPhone from Australia. Haven’t seen anything on either device and do read WUWT everyday.
As always – thank you for the great work you do.
Never seen this ad.
Have been checking wuwt every day on ipadpro with latest ios.
Using from thailand, sometimes with a VPN and a US server.
I do get a lot of adds for solar panels though, if you can make those go away that would be great 🙂
No problem on my iPhone, I have seen similar ads on Facebook sometimes, very annoying.
I see this kind of thing on my iPhone from time to time. I am not having a problem with it at this moment. When I do encounter it, it seems to occur when there is a university nearby or when I am in a more ‘liberal’ area. But the occurrences are sporadic and correlation may not be real. I will close out safari and then reopen and the issue usually doesn’t reoccur. On a few occasions, it has been a significant enough problem that I will turn on my vpn. Using a vpn cures the problem.
No spam on my two devices Anthony. (MacBook Air, IPhone 8)
Cheers,
Jamie
I had it for two days last week, and couldn’t even get to your site. Went to the Apple guru’s with my i6 twice and they couldn’t fix it. They speculated that it was due to the release of the new phones, and believed it would soon be fixed. Haven’t had a problem for a few days, but it was frustrating for a whole. I had it occur on multiple sites, not just WUWT.
No issue on an iPhone here in SE Asia. Keep up the good work! Your site continues to enrich my days and enhance my understanding of our amazing planet!
I switched from a Samsung phone to an I phone in March and have had this happen dozens of times since then. It doesn’t just affect WUWT. It first happened to me on the Major League baseball (mlb) website. I deleted the mlb icon and moved it over to the DuckDuckGo (DDG) search app. It hasn’t happened to that website since. A few weeks later it popped up on WUWT. So I moved it over to DDG which stopped that . It just moved over to other websites that I hadn’t moved over yet. It just happened again today.
As others have noted you can delete the page but the original website page has disappeared. Restarting the original website just results in the popup reappearing. Restarting the phone helped but eventually it reappears.
I think it has happened before on my Samsung but it wasn’t so hard to delete. I have not had it happen on Firefox that I am using on my Windows 10 laptop.
It has been a real pain in the ass. If nothing else it is an attempt at denial of service.
Hope this helps.
DDG? Not much different than Bonzai Buddy in my opinion.
This crap ad and the amazon ad have picked on other sites. I usually close the page and it is gone when I reopen. As far as I know, thay are not doing anything more the phishing in a very amateurish fashion.
I got it too very annoyin i moved to firefox and that seemed to axoid it. Also got itonce on pc al
It’s not just Apple. It occurred on my Droid. Oct 31 post concerning climate police being exposed in Video. For two full days I could not read that post because every time I opened it a message of the nature you described popped up blocking access.
I tried about a dozen times over two days to read that post. Finally on the third day the pop up went away.
I am not on FB or Twitter. Never have been. The phone is a Company phone owned by Hitachi. I use it all the time when working including up in Canada. I was in the Toronto area when that annoying problem occurred.
Never had a problem like that before.
Have not noticed this issue on either my iPad or iPhone.
Have not noticed this issue on either my iPad or iPhone.
No problem with my iPad Mini.
No problem on my iPone X here in Finland. Latitudes more than 62 degrees N help, I think.
No problem on my iPhone 6d
Anthony – I read your site almost exclusively on an iPad. I have not seen these pop ups.
No problem from my iPhone or iPad with Safari. Also no problem from my Mac with Safari and Firefox. I’m near Calgary