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[About XDA developers] centavar:
Browsing XDA with a smartphone has become an awful expirience. Ad upon ad and more often than not a pop-up, without a cancel button, leading you to a scam virus check. Going back to XDA is not possible in most such redirect cases.

I can understand making money, but you went too far, completely ignoring the user experience. In response, I will only browse the site through my desktop with adblock enabled.

I totally see the effectiveness of that work... Change the provider or strike direct deals with end clients. This is no way to do buisness, but to lose revenue. Intrusive ads are forcing users to look for a way to remove them,then discover adblock and never turn it off afterwards.
[About XDA developers] alex xander:
Up to every 20 seconds this page appears when viewing on ipad, the browser redirects to the App Store and requires closing the App Store and reopening the browser every time.
[About XDA developers] cobyman7035:
holy cow, the browser site has load of ads! its all over the place lol, sometimes my speakers are on full blast and it scares the sh*t out of me, that video/music from one of the ads on the top right:crying:
[About XDA developers] Frankie73:
Folks, don't get me wrong, I love this site, so much knowledge and so many nice and helpful ppl here!

The problem is that the ads you use (and the way those ads are used) give this site a shady and dubious feeling. I guess it even may scare first time visitors from coming back here.

Here's what I got this morning when browsing your forums just for a few minutes with my phone:

Without clicking any link I get an offer to download some apk (I've seen that before, nothing new for me)

My playstore opens pointing me to some strange dating app (again without clicking any link) (I've seen that before, nothing new for me)

I get a message that tells me that my phone is infected by viruses (This is new for me, never had this before)

Next I got redirected to a site that acts like it is scanning my phone for viruses / malware (of course it's not a real scanner)

After that my playstore opened again and I was offered to download Cleanmaster to get rid of my "viruses".

Once again: Great site, great forum, great community, but I really don't like that kind of advertisement. Especially the last example I posted is very annoying and dubious.
[About XDA developers] vriesfde:
App store redirect on iPad?

Since yesterday i get redirect to appstor when browsing the forum, specifically to the War Games app.

Anybody else seen this behaviour?
[About XDA developers] leomd333:
I get the above every 10 seconds if i visit the site on my device. It is really annoying me now :mad:
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
Just want you guys to know we're monitoring this thread.

We want you to have a good browsing experience. Thanks for the heads up and keep it coming.
[About XDA developers] cobyman7035:
are u guys getting popups on mobile with adblocker or adaway enabled? cuz i don't get any popups with adaway enabled/ON

well on mobile, i only view XDA forums via tapatalk pro or xda premium apps with adaway enabled(rooted of course)
[About XDA developers] Jann F:
This thread is for those who wanted to support XDA by disabling their adblocker for the xda site ;)
[About XDA developers] Rhonin86:
downloaddino

Hi folx,

advertise is OK to get money for this forum but there are menawhile some annoying popups - trying to download a "flashplay for chrome..." Chrome itself has declared it as a fishing side - here is the link:

http://www.downloaddino.com/go/ligh...sz000.&ce_cid=20t45n0xv6YcJ6dL3gZOMj1w7Ssz000.

The worst thing is, that it could not be closed without starting a download - please prevent this ad from harming the forums members...

Thx in advance

Rhonin
[About XDA developers] funksoulbrother:
I keep getting "check your ANDROID NOW for a VIRUS!" pop-ups like this: -

http://i5.minus.com/j98o7IAzwwhJ5.png

This is what I was viewing when it last happened: -

http://i5.minus.com/jb1SkJSq0les78.png
[About XDA developers] Sathelp:
Not sure if I am getting the same thing but every time I change page or open a forum on my iPad, it sends me to an app to download. Normally a game or similar but getting fed up with it even though it has only been happening for about a week.
[About XDA developers] Monkey Chops:
I'm also getting the mobogenie malware thing and something else telling me to do an urgent virus scan and also a Nissan advert that has a popup that fills the entire screen. only happens here.
[About XDA developers] HenrikE:
play store update

I got an annoying message:

The page at lovelinks.us says:

Warning!!!

Your APP store need update immediately.

After that I was redirected to some weird place but I stopped it before it loaded the page.
[About XDA developers] ali_bobo:
Same with me guys.

Although I noticed this doesnt happen in IE.

When using Chrome I keep getting redirected to a fake Flash Player download page which auto downloads. Im a IT Analyst so I know this is a threat but other members can easily install the application and be compromised.
[About XDA developers] f4flake:
The site is becoming unusable on a mobile device. Sometimes tabs I've opened in the background are suddenly redirected to some lovelink ****e, there are constant pop ups suggesting I check for viruses and occasionally the play store automatically opens to some other **** app for sad twats who can't get any.

Its a real shame.
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
I don't have any of these issues, but then again I have adaware apps installed.

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You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think! XDA, mobile wisdom, not a n00b feeding ground!!
[About XDA developers] Mikegrmn:
On my iPad (I know, an iPad), I always get redirected to the app store and mostly the app lovoo is suggested. Bad thing is that my iPad freezes for about a minute when this happens.

And when I don't get redirected to the app store, when I try to open a link in a new tab, a porn website opens up instead of the corresponding thread I clicked.

I have similar problems on my Android devices.

No problems on IE.

Location is DE, just in case the ads are country specific.
[About XDA developers] robertharvey_90:
sigh this is not a helpful post

I have been getting this for about a 3 months now. After some reading and bs I decided on a full system restore... no back up.

After that, no ads!!! Slowly I started introducing apps. And it wasn't until I installed Facebook and Facebook messenger that it started again...

It appeared to be a cookie that is effectively causing a scrip redirect when page has completed loading. How it does this is above my computer level... but I un installed fb and no more pop ups or redirects. Untill it happed again by itself.

I am guessing this is not a phone or app or bloatware issue and is rather the site itself has problems. Testing with restricted dns servers over wifi conferm.

Hope this helps. And hope for a fix. Its not just xda site that this is happening to. Dont want to use adblock as I support this and other internet sites, but its getting beyond a joke.
[About XDA developers] xavihernandez:
Here some screenshots about those annoying ads.

Site is almost unusable (I'm on desktop PC).

Good luck in fixing that.
[About XDA developers] dobbin b:
This is seriously getting beyond a joke no, i've been browsing this site for over 3 years and within the last month ive had more spam from here than in my hotmail account !

Not had any porn spam, yet, but lots of crap from mobilegene, lovuee or whatever its called, fake app store update notificaions and now mobo market crap as well.

Please XDA, this is a brilliant site but in its current state the forums are almost imposible to use due to all the adds spam and forced downloads from feking mobilegene !
[About XDA developers] stenc55:
I had mobogenie spam on Android tab about a month ago, it stopped now.

Now I have popup on win7/Crome when entering and exiting forum.

Even Adblock+ can't stop it.
[About XDA developers] MrPuddington:
Agreed. Nissan is currently taking over the screen, and the close button is so small (1mm), that it is nearly impossible to hit on a touchscreen. It is even more annoying than the car being advertised. Will have to investigate an adblocker for android.
[About XDA developers] andytl:
Getting the same its that bad I can't view anything lucky to even post this!
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Try this, Adblock Plus for Android.

https://adblockplus.org/en/android-install
[About XDA developers] decalman:
Its getting bad from my pc also. Tapatalk is the only way I don't get any ads
[About XDA developers] jaggythistle:
Re: full screen ads on xda

I don't know if xda has been hacked or if it's something they have agreed to but over the last few weeks anytime I come to this site using Samsung or Dolphin Browsers I get bombarded by ads full screen ones sometimes that force me to either download or go to another site including that dam mobogenie, I kept thinking it must be an app I've downloaded or some kind of malware but after a couple of full wipes including formatting my internal and external as soon as i come back to this site it starts again I've tried other sites and the ads don't appear it only happens when I come here! I was wanting to know if this is happening to anyone else or if it's just me? I've also tried different roms but it has the same out come any help with this will be greatly appreciated.*

I should add that it happens after a clean install with different roms so I don't think it can be an app causing it but I honestly don't have an ideas left as to what's causing it.

Thanks in advance.
[About XDA developers] f4flake:
It's not you. It's the site.
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
The ads issue is being addressed and should hopefully be resolved sometime tomorrow

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You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think! XDA, mobile wisdom, not a n00b feeding ground!!
[About XDA developers] jaggythistle:
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Thank you for the response, these ads have been driving me crazy can't wait till its resolved.
[About XDA developers] knightnz:
Some of the ads that appear on the site when using a mobile browser generate popups that try to get the user to install a vague apk under the pretence of it being antivirus software. The actual banner ad links to http://www.super-speed-dating.com/traffic/nzadrx.php which redirects to androidsecurityfree.org
[About XDA developers] Mr_JMM:
Auto playing video ads

That's good to know but people have been complaining about the auto playing video ads for around 18 months now and yet they still exist. Ironically, on every other page of this topic.

I don't have an adblocker, I don't mind ads in general especially bearing in mind this site is free however, the auto-playing video ads are too much to bear. Why has XDA ignored this issue and allowed them to continue? Is there a setting to stop them? If so, I apologise for not being able to find it.

Seriously, please get rid of auto-playing ads or at least give us an option somewhere to stop them.

[Update] I've been checking out a lot of threads today as I've been away for a while and it's just too much. I'm trying to listen to music and the ads keep interrupting it. I've caved in and installed an adblocker. XDA is the only site that it is blocking ads from. Once this issue is resolved I'll remove the adblock extension.

As for supporting XDA, I have the paid for xda app on my phone and would be happy to do the same for the desktop site if it stopped the auto playing video ads (the others I don't mind).
[About XDA developers] spark001uk:
Tried that, slows majority of page loading to a crawl. Uninstalled that straight away!!

Same here re: Nissan cr**qai opening full screen. Happens every page load on xda! :mad:
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
What was done to fix the issue?
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
Lovoo ad has been blocked, which was causing a majority of the problems
[About XDA developers] agentfazexx:
Nice. Good to know the root cause was ID'd.
[About XDA developers] GermainZ:
Popup:
[About XDA developers] f4flake:
I wish I'd just been capturing the screen of my nexus for the last thirteen minutes as I attempted post a reply in this thread. Between page hijacks and popups that cover the whole screen but fail to load and thus cannot be closed its been so frustrating that I would imagine posts from mobile devices have slowed right down.

As a forum owner myself I appreciate the need for a revenue stream but frankly whomever your ad providers are need to be sacked off.

And punched in the face. Like that twat on the Nissan ad, looking over his shoulder all smug because somehow the page "double load" meant I hit the ****ing play button because it was where the close button was before the screen refreshed for no reason whatsoever.

I've got screen grabs but I suspect of would take me about four hours to post therm and I have a train to catch.
[About XDA developers] MrPuddington:
Nothing is fixed, in fact it is getting worse. Nissan is auto-playing, and there is some malware trying to install on Android, too.

Is there any way to use hosts on Android without root? Or could I install it on the WiFi router?

And XDA needs to change advertising partners. They are clearly shady - and cooperating with them is a mistake at best.
[About XDA developers] andytl:
Agree with the last couple of replies NOTHING HS BEEN FIXED yes I'm shouting because that Nissan and hijack is seriously hacking me off! You can have adds without the need to take over everyones machines.Just a note to Nissan do they actually think that forcing an add like that on me is going to intice me to go and buy one its having the opposite effect.
[About XDA developers] minimonkey7:
XDA unusable on android device!
[About XDA developers] Pasher:
I have the Same

Gesendet von meinem GT-N5100 mit Tapatalk
[About XDA developers] ConorCX:
My Dolphin browser was hijacked when reading a XDA article last night. Really didn't expect that, especially from XDA.

No screenshot of it as I was focusing on exiting the browser.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[About XDA developers] MrPuddington:
I have to say that it finally seems to work fine now. I can read XDA on my tablet without any as taking over. Thanks!
[About XDA developers] Bejda:
Hello, sorry to poke you but nothing changed.

Sorry for my harsh words , they're of course not directed to you personally :o but will this ****ty situation stays forever then?

Xda simply became the most ads hijacked site i ever browsed in the whole World Wide Web with an android device.

Lovoo brings you to his PlayStore page without warning,mobogenie.apk download pop-up still occurs here and there (sometimes on dev-host also),and worst of them all that lovelink.us page (that also leads you to a mobogenie.apk download pop-up) that forces you to press your back button (no way to skip it, it doesn't mind if we tick "no" of course lol) many times successively (sometimes have to go back up to 5 pages from the one you was trying to access for it stops,and you have good chances the loop will start again soon after).

I just don't understand..nobody in the forum staff could confirm this? Get the annoyance it was?

Again, this situation is ridiculous.

Thank you :)
[About XDA developers] jumoog:
Noob user think its a virus or something
[About XDA developers] gottech:
I got those when tried to root my phone. Can't remember which one though. It was a computer root method though. Deleted it when I saw that it was the one that passed this to my phone. you have to uninstall these from your phone. I will try to recreate this and tell you which root method it was.

---------- Post added at 12:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:36 AM ----------

It was one click root
[About XDA developers] lbt:
I got this exact same thing as well yesterday. This was the first time I saw it ever on any website, and it only happened when I surfed xda on mobile. I'm not running any sketchy programs on my phone and my ROM came pre-rooted, and there are no issues regarding this from other ROM users.

Popup:
[About XDA developers] gottech:
If it was the xda site I would be able to replicate results. I cannot. I have been all over the site trying to to replicate so I can help. Must be just your phone. I would suggest looking at what you have one your device and deleting one by one to see if it stops. When it does you have found the culprit. I never said you run questionable programs but sometimes they get installed while you are installing something you want. It is called adware, or malware and I have started seei ng this a little more on android. You could send me a linl to the page that you get this on so that I may replicate your results

I337 stock, unlocked, rooted
[About XDA developers] noodles2k:
Scareware Ads?

Anyone else getting these? They shouldn't be allowed.
[About XDA developers] noodles2k:
Do you have AdAway or similar? As that blocks them. But they're definitely coming from the site.
[About XDA developers] gottech:
No, nothing. I was wrong however mobogenie comes from vroot's new version. I believe something was installed without your knowledge in addition to something you wanted in the same fassion that adobe flash installs McAfee scanner on your computer is there one page that ways brings up this problem?

I337 stock, unlocked, rooted
[About XDA developers] Androidmarketuser:
Really annoying, I hate browsing xda on Android devices and I'm too lazy to install AdAway.

Some time ago when I browsed on the page it Chrome downloaded MoboGenie automatically, at the end I had 10 mobogenie apks in my download folder. Now I'm "glad" that it is only scareware which can be tapped away -.-
[About XDA developers] gottech:
I seriously cannot repeat your results with anything as bad as your reporting.
[About XDA developers] atnpwner:
I installed adblock to my android.
[About XDA developers] PoP*92:
hello

hello to all....

first of all i want to tnx all of u devolpers for greath custom roms and better performanced phones on them.....

now i want to said to u that is stupid this with limit that i cant post on devolper part of forums..

i want to said that man who make KitKat 4.4.2 rom for lg p500 optimus one, that version9 is full of glitches and crashes and it work on my phone for like 10 min and crash whole system... and when it is working with AD2SDX script it is good but too slow, and yes i have class 10 sdcard.....

someone who have premishion to post in his theme please let him know to fix that... :(

here is a link:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50929052&postcount=1000

tnx forwoard.....

Ps: if i am on wrong forum please send this mesage to right place....
[About XDA developers] Pirum:
Recently got the same thing on my Iconia Tablet, stock 4.1 rom, not rooted, Opera mini browser. Only happens on XDA from what I can tell, I use other browser for XDA at the moment and has no problem. Maybe mini loads different ads.
[About XDA developers] jj14:
Lately, I get a Nexus 7 tablet - haven't rooted it yet, and haven't installed ad-blocker.

Browsing xda forums - when I access the site the first time, I get the popup (see attached) - doesn't show up after that.

Unlike the other ones that I saw in this thread, this actually states "the page at forums.xda-developers.com says:" (instead of <ad-site> says)

I hit the back navigation button - but I wonder how many newbies (to android, and to xda) will assume that xda has some fancy virus scanner that detected a virus?

Edit: just noticed - [MENTION=4208649]noodles2k[/MENTION] indicated the same issue too
[About XDA developers] demlasjr:
It started few weeks ago. Sometimes I'm searching in Chrome or Samsung browser something and I'm getting as results links from here. While ago, Chrome asked me if I want to open the link into Tapatalk. Now it doesn't (it's not set to open links into chrome as default instead Tapatalk, I guess the issue is with chrome). The only browser still asking to open the link into Tapatalk is the Samsung browser.

However, if I'm opening the link into the browser I have 2 issues:

1) very intrusive ads and also unprofessional for such forum

Example:

2) compressed text
[About XDA developers] jj14:
I noticed this too! UGH! Switching to landscape mode fixes this, but dang - didn't expect these issues on xda.
[About XDA developers] demlasjr:
Sorry for the late answer. Yeah, most of time works in landscape (had one time it didn't). But is pretty annoying to read a forum in landscape because of the reduced reading zone.
[About XDA developers] tstivers1990:
Just had an ad on xda stating my android is infected with a virus. Popped a message box up and everything. Please don't allow this rubbish to continue.
[About XDA developers] tyw7:
I'm not going to repost, so see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=51137643#post51137643
[About XDA developers] cmstlist:
Same here. Screenshot:
[About XDA developers] mrbubba999:
Just started getting these this evening, I've had 3 so far
[About XDA developers] markusaurelius49:
Ads drive me nuts. On the other hand I like being paid for my development. The two halves of me are going to split like Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde and start fighting.

life goes on.
[About XDA developers] genny80:
Same here
[About XDA developers] dperry324:
downloadster???? wtf?

Why does every developer use downloadster to post their roms and such for download via downloadster?

I tried to download a few selections in some of the forums, and each one takes me to downloadster, which won't download the actual file. It downloads some other setup.exe file and my AVG goes crazy saying that there's all this adware and malware infected in these new downloads?

Why can't they just be posted on some ftp site?
[About XDA developers] happybana:
I got duped by this one a minute ago (and am kicking myself for it; I should have known better, but previously XDA had been such a safe site). I clicked on it thinking XDA had started hosting developer's files themselves or something and got hit with the well-known malware setup file. I also got a big full-page pop-up that I didn't think to get a screenshot of. I partly visit this site more than other Android developer sites to avoid this kind of seedy stuff, I would be really disappointed if this continues. Glad to see you guys are taking this seriously though!
[About XDA developers] happybana:
Ads are fine, but it's not fine when the ads are packed with malware or interrupt the user's ability to navigate / use the site. Then, the ads will be likely to drive traffic away rather than capitalize on it.
[About XDA developers] dperry324:
So what happened to me is not typical? Have the download links been hijacked?
[About XDA developers] GreayStone:
On my note 3 I occasionally get a popup prompting me to download a virus scanner. Thats why on I run ad blocker on my pc so I don't have to deal with these issues ;)
[About XDA developers] notzippy:
I dont mind video or text adverts, but ads that instantly start with audio and video are too intrusive. I have even gotten the same video add starting on multiple parts of the same page - insane ! I will use an ad blocker until this is resolved at XDA.

Nz
[About XDA developers] angus454:
time to do something

So tonight I drop by and am confronted with an ad that obscures a large portion of the bottom screen. It is inescapable and makes the site unreadable so I click it in the hope that it goes away after the obligatory popup... no such luck. It remains on the page. I go to scroll the page and trigger another ad on the right hand side. Christ almighty, can xda please accept some responsibility for the general usability of the site? Right now it's not happening and the site is borderline stupid to use. Ive been around a long time here and have heard every argument about ads and their role in modern development... I get it, I support it and want every dev to wildly succeed. This isn't about that. This is about xda making a decision to commit to usability and striking a better balance between content and advertising than what we have today because its not working as it stands. Thanks for the rant