I’ve notified Cole that some of you are getting redirected to one or more porn sites when you attempt to access the site on your phones, tablets, and/or other mobile devices. He’s already gotten back to me, so he’s on it. Commenter Another Scott, thought it might be a WordPress flaw that is being exploited via a plugin, as delineated in this Ars Technica piece. However, I checked with Alain and we don’t have that plugin as adding it when it came out would have broken everything that’s holding the site together.
On behalf of the other front pagers I apologize for the problems, Cole’s working on it, and hopefully this will get remedied quickly. In the meantime, if possible, please access the site from non-mobile devices.
Update at 9:55 PM EDT
I just heard from Alain, he’s working on the fix right now. He expects everything to be repaired in about 5 minutes.
Update at 10;10 PM EDT
Alain has indicated that everything should be fixed!
Open thread.
Pharniel
Now it’s full on porn:(
I get a hijack for “You’ve won” on this site & others, I’m assuming Ad Sense has once again let malicious code through.
I know it hoses sites, but an Ad Blocker is a security essential until the ad networks stop serving up hijacks & viruses.
SiubhanDuinne
Not an option for me, right now, as it happens: it’s the iPhone or nothing. Hope it can be remedied soon, and again, am very grateful to you, John, Alain, and the entire rebuild team for taking it seriously and addressing it promptly. You guys are the best.
SiubhanDuinne
@Pharniel:
You mean it wasn’t earlier? Been full-on prön for me since early afternoon.
Plato
BJ. Performance issues.
Irony died.
Another Scott
@SiubhanDuinne: Try the Brave browser. There’s an iOS version.
https://brave.com/ios/
It has built-in adblocking, etc. (I use it on my Android phone and it works well.)
Good luck.
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
How to Disable JavaScript in Safari for the iPhone and iPod Touch .
As it’s essentially a bigfoot thread, repeating from below.
On a happier note, WaPo looks over Rainbow.
SiubhanDuinne
@Another Scott:
Thx, will give it a try.
Brachiator
Okay so far on Android phone with Brave browser.
On a related note, I don’t know if Google has decided to commit corporate suicide…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/30/google-just-gave-2-billion-chrome-users-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox/
Martin
@SiubhanDuinne: Put an ad blocker on the iPhone. AdGuard has a free version in the App Store.
Nicole
I’m just glad to know it’s not just my phone getting the secksy time and the “YOU’VE WON!” ads.
Those fucking “YOU’VE WON” ads. Several sites have triggered those. The secksy time was a new one today.
Ukko
Another vote for Brave, it is a godsend.
Martin
@Brachiator: Given how much revenue of theirs comes through ads, they’re kinda fucked either way.
MomSense
@SiubhanDuinne:
I think I’m going to have to sign off until tomorrow. Hopefully it will be fixed by then. I just don’t want to see all that again.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Thanks, for both :-)
Steve in the ATL
I’m not getting pop ups or secksy time redirects, but for some reason my posts are appearing as neither clever nor insightful.
NotMax
It’s Friday the dyslexic 13th.
;)
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
I know, right? It’s one thing when it’s helpful illustrations in Our Bodies, Ourselves, quite another when it’s an unexpected and unwelcome surprise pop-up during an innocent BJ perusal.
Baud
@Steve in the ATL:
Those damn hackers have no shame.
Martin
I wonder if CA will run abortion tourism ads?
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
Go into settings and ratchet up the Brightness control?
;)
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the ATL:
BITES TONGUE
Martin
@SiubhanDuinne:
Um, let’s not exaggerate things…
Duane
I’m not getting any of those ads. Ad Block+ must be working. I shouldn’t, but this is Balloon Juice after Dark. Maybe I’ll…Take it off take it all off.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: I mentioned this below, but I noted the websites I was directed to and manually blocked them. Probably a bandaid but I did it in the early afternoon and nothing bad happened for the rest of my time at work. I don’t use my phone to access the site when I am at home.
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne:
Adam L Silverman
I just heard from Alain, he’s working on the fix right now and expects it’ll be done in about 5 minutes!
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I got out of the site(s) as fast as I could. Thought later that I should have done a screen-grab (UGH) or made note of the site address (DOUBLE UGH). I’m sort of squeamish that way.
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
Yay Alain!
NotMax
@Duane
Gotta link to Gunilla Knutssen.
:)
jnfr
All I’m getting is Trevor Noah talking about Robert Mueller. Talk about your downers…
Duane
@MomSense: No dick pics? //
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
SNORT
Martin
@jnfr: Trevor Noah naked talking about Mueller? I’m sure someone is into that.
Jackie
@MomSense: A month ago I started getting “Congratulations you are the winner” pop up redirects. Only on BJ. I finally downloaded AdBlox X (free) and knock on wood – haven’t had any pop ups since.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: When do we get the partial fee refund?
Mary G
Trump is giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Arthur Laffer.
Adam L Silverman
It’s like the 11 tricyclers of the Dumbpacolypse!
Jarrett whose a drunk. Tubbo Schlapp. Bribe Me Barbi Biondi. At the Sound of the NAZI breaking Geraldo Rivera’s nose the time will be 10 PM, that idiot Levin, DeGenova and his creepy wife, the road rage guy from Judicial Watch, and some guy behind DeGenova’s wife I don’t recognize. And whomever is in front of Biondi
geg6
Gawd! I was getting some really graphic, nasty porn every time I tried to access the site. Had to go away for several hours. Seems to be fixed now, thank FSM. I’m not totally against good sexxy stuff, but this was disgusting stuff.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mary G: The thing is Laffer is probably the most worthy person that Trump will ever pick.
Steve in the ATL
@Mary G: it takes some talent to be the worst economist. Think of the competition for that title.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: You’ll have to check with Cole.
Alain
Should be better now. Sorry folks, apparently some scripts weren’t declared and so shit happened.
It’s been fixed and I flushed the caches and it should all be better. Carry on and sorry for the bother!
Alain
@Alain: To be clear, I was asked to update some ad code and something was left out and just sent to me a few minutes ago, so that’s been fixed. Sorry to all.
Another Scott
@Alain: Thanks for your efforts. Fingers crossed!
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@geg6
Chacun à son ewww.
:)
Omnes Omnibus
@Alain: Well, I learned how to block websites on my iPhone, so we can count that on the plus side.
SiubhanDuinne
@Alain:
Very grateful, Alain. Although I shall miss seeing Steve in the WTF’s double entendre comments.
MomSense
@Duane:
Ha!
SiubhanDuinne
@Mary G:
I thought you were joking. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…..
Adam L Silverman
Since things are fixed, I’m heading offline to go rub doggie bellies and watch TV. You all have a nice night.
chris
@Mary G: Saw that earlier, shut it down and went for a long walk. This timeline sucks.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman:
That might actually have been the premise for one of hijack videos.
MomSense
Woah just happened again except this time the pics were in Brady bunch squares format. Ugh.
Duane
@NotMax: Leave it to you to know who she is. You’re handy like that.
different-church-lady
@SiubhanDuinne: I can’t even remember how I did it, but somehow long ago I requested the desktop version on my tablet, and now it loads that way all the time.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Haven’t saved up enough to get the whole dog yet?
:)
Baud
Still better than seeing pictures of Trump.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: One Piece at a Time.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Steve in the ATL: I’m afraid that problem exists between the chair and the keyboard, kind sir.
@SiubhanDuinne: You clearly have more self control than I. Brava.
SiubhanDuinne
@different-church-lady:
I’ve had the desktop format on my mobile device(s) since the beginning (since the option existed). Have never liked the look of the mobile version. With the rebuild, maybe I should try again.
different-church-lady
Is the rebuild going to be based on WordPress? Because as far as I can tell that thing is a catastrophe.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
A difference without a distinction.
Jackie
Now that this crisis has (hopefully) been fixed, can we have a new, non- porn thread? Please?
SiubhanDuinne
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:
May be, but my tongue is shredded and bloody beyond recognition.
different-church-lady
@SiubhanDuinne: Wait, so the hijack was happening on mobile devices even if they were loading the desktop version?
I missed all the “fun”. It still astonishes me how many new ways people come up with to be shitty.
chris
Happy Friday!
DKos link.
Baud
@different-church-lady: I know, right? The old ways were perfectly fine.
Baud
@chris: That’s heartening. Last I had heard, she was still really popular there.
The Dangerman
Missed it all. I only have been seeing ducks strutting their stuff.
plato
@The Dangerman: It all started with the duck pron and from there, it was all a slippery slope.
Baud
@plato: Duck porn is a gateway drug.
SiubhanDuinne
@different-church-lady:
It would seem so.
That is because you have always lived a pure and blameless existence.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@SiubhanDuinne: @SiubhanDuinne: I don’t doubt that there’s a good bit of blood, and betadine not only stings, but it tastes like hell so I can’t recommend swabbing the shreds with it. Though it would be the best disinfectant.
mrmoshpotato
I sometimes got the spam with Chrome on Android. No problems on the ? ? go browser.
I’m running AVG Antivirus in the background.
chris
@Baud: The whole poll is interesting. They really like Angus King and Chellie Pingree is doing well too.
NotMax
@Baud
But quacks.
;)
mrmoshpotato
@plato:
That’s a bunch of quackery.
trollhattan
@Baud:
That when somebody throws porn at you and yells “Duck!” half a second before it hits your head?
Major Major Major Major
Free software: you get what you pay for.
Jackie
AL has started a new porn thread… Steve Bannon lol
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: You’re correct.
plato
@Baud:
That’s what happens when you deal with quacks.
Baud
Hmmm. Stay in this thread with all the sexual innuendo or proceed to the next thread about Steve Bannon?
Decisions, decisions….
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jackie: I’ll stay with kink.com.
plato
@Baud: Dicks, dicks, everywhere.
Major Major Major Major
@Brachiator: like I wrote the other day: if you care about advertising and privacy, do not use chrome.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I didn’t ever need to see that.
SiubhanDuinne
@plato:
This is NOT a TaMara thread!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: ROTFLMFAO.
NotMax
@trollhattan
Great. Now we’re going to be inundated with mallardware.
SiubhanDuinne
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:
I am repeatedly told that sunshine is the best disinfectant, so i’ll just go outside tomorrow and stand there with my mouth open for a few hours.
Baud
@NotMax: How fowl.
plato
@NotMax:
mallardware. Is that part of software upgrade for bj?
NotMax
@plato
Technically, it would be a downgrade.
;)
plato
@NotMax: head/desk.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
How much wood would a Wood Duck duck if a Wood Duck could duck wood?
Duane
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Did you hear Donald Duck is missing? Apparently he’s been taken by an abductor.
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: snrk
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I will cut you.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Duane: Probably the same folk that hijacked FYWP.
@Omnes Omnibus: Heh.
plato
@SiubhanDuinne: I blame TaMara. Root of this sex scandal.
Steve in the ATL
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: @SiubhanDuinne: you people are so mean!
[weeps softly into tumbler of white Zinfandel]
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the ATL:
FTFY
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
One like this?
:)
Doug R
You can get AdBlock for Firefox on Android. I haven’t been redirected yet on my phone, I use UBlock on Chrome at home, looks like I might be switching back to Firefox.
Poptartacus
The “you’ve won” assholes are annoying as fuck
SiubhanDuinne
@Duane:
All right, “Duane,” who are you and what have you done with NotMax?
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Steve in the ATL: I’m a licensed professional mean person. [Smiles and sips glass of Conundrum, not being a fan of white Zin]
2liberal
Am I too late for the pron-fest?
Steve in the ATL
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: you know me well enough to know that I wouldn’t touch white zin. While Conundrum is in my regular rotation.
@SiubhanDuinne: Red Schooner, a malbec by Caymus, is also in my regular rotation.
@NotMax: I grew up in a big duck hunting area and saw so many duck-themed glasses, coats, belts, flasks, etc.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Damn, too late. Was it free pron? ;)
plato
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Dood!?
Welcome to the 21st century where the cell phones got bigger and bigger when more and more men realized there iz free pron on innernetz.
JaySinWA
Always late to the party.
J R in WV
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Evidently not only free, but compulsive …
something fabulous
And here I thought not being able to see my own On the Road this morning was bad! Comparatively, NEVER MIND!
BigJimSlade
Pron site still coming up. On mobile the hamburger Mac has only Quick links and that opened up the naughty site in a new window. So did tapping around this form. I guess some joke should be made about the stiff competition out there…