Random Popup

Age : 35 Posts : 1113

Totally missed this topic when I was on break, but was wondering what the heck that popup was. Glad to see I'm not alone.

...though I suspect it'll be a damned pain to get rid of.

Age : 29 Posts : 4301

Not sure why I'm so bloody amazing, but I've still yet to receive this pop up.
Is this still a problem for anyone or has it stopped popping up?

Age : 35 Posts : 1113

Still getting it. Less common though. I last had it turn up when I had the member list page up.

Age : 31 Posts : 2547

Can I solve this now? I personally haven't gotten the popup for like a month.

Age : 31 Posts : 1490

I still get it on firefox every now and then, but not on chrome, it's odd.

Age : 31 Posts : 1900

When I first joined the forum I used to get it every time I changed to a new topic and every time I visited the index. Everytime. However the more time I spent on the forum it usually only pops up every once in a while for me; especially in topics I have never visited before. So it's less frequent for me now but I still occasionally see it.

Age : 28 Posts : 1797

I used to get this same thing when I was visiting this site on TOR a while back. I think it's either an IP issue (varied based on your location) or a browser issue. When I use the site on Chrome have never gotten the pop-up.

After doing about five minutes worth of googling, it appears that Tesco Tech Central is registered to 1&1 Internet Inc., which is a web hosting company. Tesco is also a very popular grocery store in England, which leads me to believe that their tech support website is being hosted by 1&1. Why you're getting these pop-ups on forumotion is beyond me (Maybe Tesco owns forumotion?). Either way, this means one of two things: This website is being hosted by 1&1, or this website address (ultimateshinobi.org) is registered through 1&1. The latter would make the most sense, since forumotion doesn't have the authority to create its own domain names, and would probably have to go through a third party provider (1&1 in this case).

Knowing this won't solve the problem, but at least we know it's not someone trying to phish your passwords. Unless a grocery store company is in cahoots with internet hackers, but that's a conspiracy for another day. Anyway, I recommend the Admins bring this issue up with Forumotion staff, since they're really the only ones with the power to fix it.

Age : 29 Posts : 1585

I never get it, as having AdBlock installed to Chrome blocks pop-ups, but whenever I use another computer that Adblock is not installed on the browser, I also get the pop-up. What Enzo suggested may prove to be the solution to this issue.

Age : 31 Posts : 1490

It's not that kind of popup, I have Adblock on firefox and still get it on occasion, but as I said, never on chrome.

Age : 24 Posts : 1767

I don't think it's really that form of pop up, I'm using Safari and it comes up as an application notification as opposed to just a new web window, like it's part of the browser. I had ad block as well and it's not stopping it so I'm not sure they're related. Haven't tried it on any other browsers myself.

Posts : 1187

Winged Blade wrote:: I don't think it's really that form of pop up, I'm using Safari and it comes up as an application notification as opposed to just a new web window, like it's part of the browser. I had ad block as well and it's not stopping it so I'm not sure they're related. Haven't tried it on any other browsers myself.

It probably is something to do with the browser as Safari is all I use and I get it a lot.

Age : 30 Posts : 1637

I've never gotten the pop up, not once. I use Opera, though, lol.

Age : 31 Posts : 1900

lifeanddeath wrote:: It's not that kind of popup, I have Adblock on firefox and still get it on occasion, but as I said, never on chrome.

I have firefox's Adblock as well.

Age : 30 Posts : 8965

Get it on my phone still on occasion.

Age : 34 Posts : 1209

Still getting it using my computer. Browser is Firefox and OS is Windows 7. Haven't tested it with google chrome or IE.

Age : 31 Posts : 1490

Given that there is really nothing that can be done about this, to any of our knowledge, I am just going to sneak it into the solved section.