Oh, HELL no. The FP is now dead to me.

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
10/01/2018 at 19:06 • Filed to: None

Why oh why does GMG keep giving me reasons to avoid the front page? Today it’s some fucking obnoxious ‘Amazon’ multi-page pop-up crap that hijacks my browser. I know they need money but this shit has got to stop. They’re already sucking up huge quantities of my limited bandwidth with endless ads and autorun videos I have no intention of watching. If this means the end of Jalopnik so fucking be it, just as long as Oppo somehow survives...

DISCUSSION (23)

The Dummy Gummy > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/01/2018 at 19:20

Haven’t they been doing this for a few years now?

Saracen > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/01/2018 at 19:23

Oppo thrives on FB . It’s awesome, and (mostly) drama free and (entirely) Kinja free.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > The Dummy Gummy
10/01/2018 at 19:28

Not that I’ve seen. Today is the first time I’ve had this obnoxious pop-up happen on any of my devices. The worst part is that it keeps relaunching itself so that hitting the back button only brings you back one instance of this crap and not to the page you were on, and even if you look at the page history you can’t get back to where you were, only to the previous page you visited; I was on Jalopnik, and if I pressed the back button several times it might get me back to Gizmodo, the site I was at before I went to Jalopnik. The programmers that write this kind of hideous, insipid code need to be hung by their testicles from the nearest tree.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Saracen
10/01/2018 at 19:32

I dunno - call me a curmudgeon if you will , but I find FB more insidious than a few annoying ads and I do my best not to have anything to do with them. Sadly this generally means knowing little about what my family is doing 1,800 miles away since that’s the way most of them communicate...

bhtooefr > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/01/2018 at 19:34

That looks like a malicious ad beyond the regular level of malicious for GMG’s crapware. Might be a way to report it, I’m not sure.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/01/2018 at 19:40

“Women In...”?

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/01/2018 at 19:44

OK, I don’t know why, but I never seem to get anywhere near the number or type of ads some of you people do? I don’t go on FP a lot, but I still read some of the articles and I have never EVER had something like that pop up in my way?

boxrocket > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/01/2018 at 19:51

Doesn’t your iDevice have a popup and ad blocker yet? The Lumia 950XL I’m writing this on has those built-in. I never see the weird ads folks complain about (though admittedly I do at times get some funky webpage errors when I get deep in the scrolling, but it is Kinja!).

That ad looks sketchy af though, regardless.

facw > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/01/2018 at 19:57

That seems like beyond what they would run. Much more scam as apposed to annoying aggressive ad. I’d guess some malicious code injected into an ad. Also possible you have malware on your machine, though that’s less likely today.

Cash Rewards > Saracen
10/01/2018 at 20:05

Yeah, but Facebook. Y’all will know my name, and who I agreed to a friend request but aren’t really friends with because I have seen you in 18 years and have no intention of doing so for another 18.

Dusty Ventures > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/01/2018 at 20:05

That’s not GMG, that’s malware

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > boxrocket
10/01/2018 at 20:08

I’ve been an iPad user since the first one came out in 2010 and have found that the standard browser, Safari, has always done an excellent job of preventing this kind of hideous garbage from ruining the browsing experience. I’m generally OK with the myriad ads on GMG sites as they have bills to pay, even if I don’t like how they suck up mobile bandwidth, but this crap today is on a whole other level, bordering on malicious in the malware vein.

Something on the server side must have stopped this because after several instances in the last couple of hours I have been unable to replicate the problem so that I could grab a screenshot.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Dusty Ventures
10/01/2018 at 20:09

On an iPad? I don’t think so.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
10/01/2018 at 20:11

That was a ctually from an article on another GMG site, but I can’t remember if it was something political or about a piece of artwork.

Dusty Ventures > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/01/2018 at 20:14

It was a discussion on the Apple forums late last year.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Dusty Ventures
10/01/2018 at 20:44

Thanks for the info. I have gone through t by e steps outlined in that article and hopefully it will rid my system of this nuisance.

IOS has been quite good about preventing these kinds of infestations, and as a result I may have become a little complacent, especially since I know of no easy way to check for these kinds of issues. I’m sure the developers of this malware are working hard to penetrate seemingly secure platforms. But this has only ever happened to me on GMG sites so I question the strength of their malware/virus detection software.

Years ago, when I was a sysadmin, I was paranoid when it came to viruses, especially when I started at a new job at a place that used Exchange. In order to protect my systems I did something that cost me politically when I accidentally upstaged the CIO and his team. Instead of checking for AV updates on a daily basis I had my systems set to check hourly. When a major virus hit and took out Exchange servers all over the world my systems were all protected and kept working, whereas email in the NY office, where the CIO was based, was down for several weeks and it cost the company dearly in overtime, lost revenue and reputation and other costs.

Me and my supervisor also discovered through an internal audit that we conducted upon taking over the IT department that the company was arrears in software license payments in the 7-figure range. The CIO wanted to keep this quiet until he could come up with a solution, and was afraid that we were going to leak this to the CEO who was in the same building as us. We did keep quiet, as promised, since he was the one responsible for rectifying this problem. However, we were still perceived as threats mostly because we had done our jobs correctly and had inadvertently made him and his team look bad even though all we were trying to do was to do the job that we were hired to do. Office politics suck, especially when you’re not playing the game...

Dusty Ventures > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/01/2018 at 21:10

I was getting the same “Amazon” malware early this year, but only on my iPhone and only on two sites, ewrc-results and zeroto60times. Since my laptop and other devices could visit those sites without ever having the same popup I concluded the issue was my device. That’s why I did some digging and found the thread I linked. Solved the problem for me.

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/02/2018 at 00:34

I get those occasionally on my iPhone. It sucks because all you can do is close the tab and start over. I’ve never gotten it on Jalopnik etc, but I get it with some regularity on my local NBC station website.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn
10/02/2018 at 00:53

Today was the first time I’d ever experienced this on any iOS device, and I’ve been using them since the first iPod touch (RIP - but probably just needs a new battery) that I got a decade ago. Weird, but at least now I know how to clean it up thanks to a fellow Opponaut.

Chinny Raccoon > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
10/02/2018 at 02:23

Maybe geotargeted?

pip bip - choose Corrour > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/02/2018 at 04:19

definitely malware!

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn
10/02/2018 at 16:26

I’ve had a couple sites that have the same problem. If you turn JavaScript off it will eliminate the malicious pop up, but it tends to break a fair number of sites.

Just Jeepin' > pip bip - choose Corrour
10/04/2018 at 11:53

Definitely not malware . Brand new iPad for me, didn’t restore from a backup, already had “block pop-up ads” enabled.

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