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Site bugged when using iOS Safari?

Post by Opteron » March 13th, 2015, 12:24 am

Hi all, starting today, I can't see any page from WCP website when using my iPhone Safari.
The page opens up, but immediatley after that, it loads an ad on top of the wcp page.
Was there anything new that could cause this behavior?
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Re: Site bugged when using iOS Safari?

Post by Breanni » March 23rd, 2015, 7:05 am

It must be related to the specific ad that's being served. I've disabled ads on your account for the next 90 days -- let us know if you continue to experience any problems.
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Re: Site bugged when using iOS Safari?

Post by Melmo » March 23rd, 2015, 8:26 am

I have this issue as well on Safari for iPhone... I even downloaded a new browser from the iTunes app store and it still happens >_>
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Re: Site bugged when using iOS Safari?

Post by Deadpoint » April 1st, 2015, 10:14 am

I'm getting a similar issue. It's even shutting down the browser and opening up the App Store pages for various apps. Makes the site unusable for me. Took three attempts to post this. :(

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Re: Site bugged when using iOS Safari?

Post by Skippythecloud » April 2nd, 2015, 1:59 pm

I agree I love this site, but right now it is unusable in ISO. Any interaction launches an ad/sponsored app.

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Re: Site bugged when using iOS Safari?

Post by Yazhi » April 3rd, 2015, 4:04 am

I had a similar thing this morning, whenever I tried to open Warcraftpets.com on my iphone a popup appeared for a quiz prize or something.

Half asleep I poked the screen to clear it away, and have now received a text saying I've been charged £15 for the privilege...

Trying to fix it with my phone provider atm -.-

This is only appearing on warcraftpets.com though no other pages (tested) though I'm unsure how it could be related....

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Re: Site bugged when using iOS Safari?

Post by Kpb321 » April 3rd, 2015, 11:38 am

I'm sure it's related to some bad ad. The problem is trying to identify the ad.

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Re: Site bugged when using iOS Safari?

Post by Breanni » April 16th, 2015, 3:45 am

The problem is catching the culprit -- it's not easy, especially on iOS. I'm going to speak to our ad network to see if anything else can be done.
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Re: Site bugged when using iOS Safari?

Post by Kpb321 » April 16th, 2015, 11:23 am

I've run into this once or twice on my iPhone but since I don't have a Mac or anyway to do the debugging I wasn't able to capture the identifying code. At this point I'm pretty sure the "Evil Ads" know this and target iOS for that reason. They don't do the same thing on desktop browsers or other platforms to avoid detection.

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