Folks who have had mobile ad redirect/pop up issues- come in

[Poppy]

Yep it keeps happening on my phone.

[davidclark]

Thank you guys for the additional info. I'm sending PMs to Sparkly and joy with more information, but if anyone else who is getting these ads consistently happens to have the following:

- A Windows computer
- A WiFi network to connect both your phone and computer to
- Time to configure software options and browse around GBCB on your phone until the ad is triggered

Please let me know and I'll get you in on this too. You'd be helping out your Then Comes Family brothers and sisters when we can get the annoying ads taken down, and we'll toss some ProBoards goodies your way for the trouble 

[misshart00]

It does it on my phone too. I kept thinking I accidentally clicked on an ad, but then it started doing it when I wasn't even touching my phone.

I have a (slowish) pc at home. I'm in if you need more volunteers.

[ardent]

I could do this at work on Monday, but this isn't happenjng to me anymore. I posted about it in the bugs thread a while back, but then I upgraded my phone to a 6 it went away completely. Just thought I would mention it...

[marygracerich]

It does it to me in my iPhone all the time. I use the Mobil site not the app. I thought maybe I was crazy and was clicking on something and not noticing

[bookworm87]

This happens to me all the time. In fact it just happened while typing this message. I have gotten directed to Draft Kings and then that Fire Age one just in the past 10 minutes. It almost never happens during the day, almost always happens during my baby's 4:30 am and 7:30 am feedings. It might just be that those times are when I am on the most too.

ETA: Just happened again and sent me to Invasion. So, three times in the past 20 minutes.

[NariaDreaming]

davidclark add me to the list of people who are having issues- 4 in the last 15 minutes.

I would, of course, be happy to volunteer

[davidclark]

@holachica - thank you! Unfortunately, it has to be a Windows computer for this one.

I'm now adding NariaDreaming, trichie5, misshart00 and @iliketurtles to the PM where I have video tutorials on how you can help!

[agpjt413]

Thanks NariaDreaming for making this a sticky at the top. I rarely lurk on parenting so I wouldn't have seen this. It's been redirecting me for weeks now. I wanted to post a thread about it on my home board (CAL) but then it would stop. It just started up again a couple of days ago for me.

[tigger815]

Having issues as well. Mostly in the morning. My laptop PC is older than dirt so not sure it would work. Desperately hoping for this to be resolved. So sick of the re-direct!

[IFinTN]

May 2, 2015 12:26:59 GMT -5 davidclark said:

Thank you guys for the additional info. I'm sending PMs to Sparkly and joy with more information, but if anyone else who is getting these ads consistently happens to have the following:

- A Windows computer
- A WiFi network to connect both your phone and computer to
- Time to configure software options and browse around GBCB on your phone until the ad is triggered

Please let me know and I'll get you in on this too. You'd be helping out your Then Comes Family brothers and sisters when we can get the annoying ads taken down, and we'll toss some ProBoards goodies your way for the trouble 

Happening a bunch this morning. I have a PC and iPhone. Happy to help today. Please send pm.

[davidclark]

@aliam20, a PC is required because the network tool we use to generate the appropriate data unfortunately does not have a Windows equivalent. Thank you, though.

IFinTN, welcome to the group conversation!

[SpinsOffResonance]

I just got redirected to the App Store 9pm EST. . It's been doing it all week. I'm using safari on my iPhone to browse TCF.. Sorry I don't have a computer at home to help.

[mrscatfarmer13]

I'm not sure if this is still supposed to be an issue, but I just got redirected to the app store for Game of War. It was 7am est and I'm using chrome on an Android phone.

[EatsRitz]

It's been happening to me a bunch this morning. (7am PST). Twice while I'm typing this post. I'm using the mobile browser on my iPhone. We only have MacBook Pros at home, but one of them has a dual operating system and can run Windows. Would that help davidclark?

[Deleted]

davidclark this issue has been happening a lot this morning, and it's making it difficult to even navigate via the mobile site. Do you need more volunteers to help?

[anakah]

I also kept getting redirected while browsing last night on my iphone using safari. Before last night it would happen maybe once a week but last night it happened while just scrolling down the threads.

[triplea598]

I'm having issues too on mobile safari. I'll copy and paste the link it redirects me to if/when it happens again.
It takes me to the apple App Store.

[Deleted]

The redirect link doesn't help. I asked David about that a while back.

ProBoards needs to be able to figure out which ad on their site is forcing the redirect. And it seems that they haven't been able to yet.

[triplea598]

May 13, 2015 10:32:00 GMT -5 @bruxannie said:

The redirect link doesn't help. I asked David about that a while back.

ProBoards needs to be able to figure out which ad on their site is forcing the redirect. And it seems that they haven't been able to yet.

Ah got it.
I just got redirected again. Probably the 4th time today.

[mrsbutt]

I've given you using PB on mobile today. It's Taptalk or desktop. It's brutal with the redirects.

[Deleted]

They're going to force us back to TheDump!

[Patrick]

May 13, 2015 10:24:09 GMT -5 @sterling said:

Patrick any update? It's horrible.

Our team has been searching non-stop since yesterday, and we're continuing to do so.  We haven't been able to reproduce the problem to identify the source.

[hedgehog]

May 13, 2015 11:41:06 GMT -5 mrsbutt said:

I've given you using PB on mobile today. It's Taptalk or desktop. It's brutal with the redirects.

Same here - between launching the app store and the redirects/pop-up browser windows, mobile is unusable. It was happening just about every other click. FX it gets sorted out quickly.

[cmeon]

At this point, it's probably fair to mention that Android users can install Adblock Plus on their phones. It works beautifully, it's free, and it's easy enough to allow ads again by site (assuming PB fixes this and you have a more generous and forgiving soul than mine).