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01-03-2019, 09:17 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 2,404
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Google “congratulations” pop-up scam/spam from FRF web site?
This happened three times in a row. First after accessing FRF web site from a link in the emailed FRF newsletter that came out today. Using iPhone Safari. I cleared Safari website data and rebooted. Same outcome. I cleared Safari website data and rebooted. Same outcome.
Anyone else seeing this?
Note this was directly on the FRF website not the app.
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01-03-2019, 10:06 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: SW PA
Posts: 909
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Yup same here. Most likely coming from an ad on the page.
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2019 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk toad
2017.5 Forester 3051S Traded 7/2020
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01-03-2019, 10:10 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 13
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Me too!
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01-04-2019, 12:31 AM
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Member
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: NW Phoenix AZ
Posts: 36
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It’s VERY frustrating. Same problem.
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2018 FR Wildcat 383MB
2000 F250 CC SB 7.3 ZF 4WD
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01-04-2019, 02:27 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 209
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I hate those things!
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2000 Salem T23 (sold)
2015 Vengeance Touring 39R12 (We love it!)
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01-04-2019, 07:54 AM
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Member
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: North Judson Indiana
Posts: 79
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Happening again this morning. Really needs to be fixed.
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2019 Flagstaff 26RBWS
2018 GMC 3500 SLE
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01-04-2019, 08:44 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Southwest Alabama
Posts: 9,850
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It's a security hole in the websites code. It allows nefarious sites to set popups that you can't (or it's hard to) close. It's mostly prevalent on mobile versions of sites.
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Gotta go campin! 
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01-04-2019, 08:55 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Grayson County, Texas
Posts: 21,562
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I don’t have anything like this on my laptop or my smartphone. I guess my Adblocker is stopping it.
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2015 FR Wildcat 295RSX / GMC Sierra
Nights Camped: '13 = 49/'14 = 74/'15 = 74/'16 = 85/'17 = 110/'18 = 111/'19 = 86/'20 =108/'21 = 115/'22 = 135/'23 = 78; Booked for 2024 = 69 |
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01-04-2019, 09:02 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: SE Idaho
Posts: 140
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bama Rambler
It's a security hole in the websites code. It allows nefarious sites to set popups that you can't (or it's hard to) close. It's mostly prevalent on mobile versions of sites.
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Please make it stop. My iPad is okay, but it makes my iPhone unusable.
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01-04-2019, 10:07 AM
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Broken Toe
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Imperial (St. Louis) MO
Posts: 3,745
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Repeat after me:
Adblock Plus.
That is all.
Tim
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"Casper" 2017 Ram 2500 Laramie Diesel
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01-04-2019, 11:04 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 3,610
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This is a known issue that affects primarily IOS users. It's an ad and you've picked up some adware on your device that causes this to fire when you login.
The solution is to clear cache and cookies and then do a restart. It will solve the problem for a while until you surf around the web and pick up the same tracking cookie again.
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01-04-2019, 12:30 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 5,059
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A free method of adblocking for windows is available at: Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File
I've been using this for a while and am happy with the results. Only real negative I've found is related to doing a Google or Bing search. Clicking on results that are listed as ads do not work. Reason is, you aren't going directly to the destination, you are first stopping at a site that logs your visit and causes a bill to where you did want to go. You can get around this issue by copying the address and pasting it into the address bar on your browser.
A similar solution for Apple lovers is at: https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask
There is also a version for Linux users. Check the Windows site for a link.
What both of these solutions does, is redirect requests for ads and such to url address 127.0.0.1. This is effectively your computer, so the ad requests go nowhere and do not load. I suspect the paid ad blocking software effectively does the same thing. If using one of these tools and you start getting ads you don't want, you have to download and install a new file to add the new addresses. The user community does maintain the files. Nice thing about this solution, you can look thru the file to verify that there isn't anything evil in it.
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I am starting to think, that I will never be old enough--------to know better.
Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist
S.E. Mich. Flagstaff 26FKWS / 2022 F-150 3.5 EcoBoost SCrew Propride
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01-04-2019, 01:12 PM
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Denver To Yuma In 90 Days
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Yuma, Arizona
Posts: 3,882
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And who said the Apple products are immune from adware and viruses? 
Must be the hacksters are getting tired of Windows users... 
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01-04-2019, 01:26 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Greensboro NC
Posts: 1,140
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Had it last night as well, works fine from my PC.. Just my Phone. So If Im using my phone and need advice for RV related tasks I simply go to the other site and not this one.. If im on my PC Ill stay here. This is absolutely the only site I have ever frequented that does it, and more than once.
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01-04-2019, 01:41 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Grayson County, Texas
Posts: 21,562
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Janet H
This is a known issue that affects primarily IOS users. It's an ad and you've picked up some adware on your device that causes this to fire when you login.
The solution is to clear cache and cookies and then do a restart. It will solve the problem for a while until you surf around the web and pick up the same tracking cookie again.
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Reposting from above.
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2015 FR Wildcat 295RSX / GMC Sierra
Nights Camped: '13 = 49/'14 = 74/'15 = 74/'16 = 85/'17 = 110/'18 = 111/'19 = 86/'20 =108/'21 = 115/'22 = 135/'23 = 78; Booked for 2024 = 69 |
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01-04-2019, 01:56 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Southern MN
Posts: 479
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Yes, started today. Other sites too.
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01-04-2019, 01:57 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Greensboro NC
Posts: 1,140
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Dan
Reposting from above.
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Strange how (for me anyway) this is the only site that does it. Im on several truck, motorcyle, rv, drone, forums and have not had this adware attack my login on any other site through my phone, just this one.
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01-04-2019, 01:57 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Between Pickles Gap and Toad Suck, AR
Posts: 6,070
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disconnect.me
download it
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2016 GMC Denali 3500Dually--2017 CC 36CKTS
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01-04-2019, 02:58 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Stockdale Texas
Posts: 448
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Dan
I don’t have anything like this on my laptop or my smartphone. I guess my Adblocker is stopping it.
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X2. Sent from my iPhone
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01-04-2019, 03:36 PM
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Denver To Yuma In 90 Days
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Yuma, Arizona
Posts: 3,882
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None of this on my Android phone, either...
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