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Old 12-20-2017, 12:00 PM
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Annoying "Google" popups on both F150Forum and CorvetteForum - both Internet Brands sites and nowhere else. This is on the Mobile Android version. This has been ongoing for quite a few months. It got better for about a month but has been back for about a week. It is occurring on F150Forum every time I visit today. Clearing history, cache, etc has no effect. Anybody else?
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Same here (mobile) and I'm on iPhone. Makes the site unusable.
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Old 12-21-2017, 12:58 AM
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Originally Posted by idrive
Same here (mobile) and I'm on iPhone. Makes the site unusable.
X2 on iPhone. Useless with the ads
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Use technology to block. Internet Brands needs to clean up their act.
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Old 12-21-2017, 07:37 AM
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Corvette Forum admins posted the below work around. I enabled it early yesterday afternoon and have had no more popups on either of the sites. It notifies me at the bottom of the screen when one has been blocked. I have received multiple notifications on both sites.

Enter the following URL in the address bar:
chrome://flags/#enable-framebusting-needs-sameorigin-or-usergesture

Then enable the highlighted option.
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This is something I’ve been getting as well. Tech is working on it and every time I see one, I forward a screenshot and a URL for it.

its being addressed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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I can't even get a mobile friendly version at this point
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Old 12-23-2017, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by RaceRed_FX4
I can't even get a mobile friendly version at this point
Do you have a Samsung phone? Using Samsung's browser and ad blocker for samsung makes it sort of bearable
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the forums annoying -
ipad - signed in - safari -
what a joke - can’t navigate with all the pop ups.

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Add me to this list. Apple I phone and I was still getting these same pop ups last night. Hopefully we can get this fixed soon. Makes browsing difficult
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