FChat advertising taking over

Subscribe Rossa and use Brave. I don't see ads here at all.

 

Well, it's working for me exactly the same as always. So as far as I can tell this is someone else's problem, in this case yours. I've offered a solution that solves your problem permanently and immediately, under the assumption that you actually want one.

Clever username, BTW. Well done.

 

If I log out and look at Fchat, I don't see anything like what you're seeing. Site seems normal, just with inline ads.

Maybe go to Safari and clear out your caches and cookies?

 

I had the same problem yesterday afternoon on FChat. I was accosted by phishing scams. They went away on their own so I don’t think it was a local device problem.

FChat admins haven’t reported anything?

 

Some ad providers have very little scruples. I don't know what Fchat uses but if it isn't AdSense, then Fchat may have one of the bottom feeder ad providers that do such underhanded things.

I suggest bumping up to at least Silver. It's worth it to support the site directly rather than through unscrupulous ads.

 

No. My experience yesterday was definitely hijacking. The FChat pages weren’t displaying and phishing “You have won a prize, click here to claim” pages were popping up. Clicking the “back” arrow would just display a different phishing ad. It was quite interesting actually. Had never seen that before. Today it is all gone.

 

Ha! It is happening again. Here are a couple of screen shots: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Russian hackers.

 

It’s happening again this morning. There are two types of people in the world. Those who’ve been hacked by the Chinese, Russians, French, etc, and those who’ve been hacked and don’t realize it yet.

 

There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary numbers and those who don't.

 

I have to use that one!

 

Just started happening to me too. Through safari; not the app. Only on FChat.


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OK, so the hint is that this happens on Apple/Safari. I just tried to go to this Fchat thread from my iPad/Safari browser as an unsubscribed user and I am indeed seeing something weird as is being described.

My browsing started with seeing this thread very briefly and then a popup appeared that said: "Congratulations Apple User! Every Saturday we randomly select a few lucky users and today it's you! Click OK to answer our questions and complete the survey to get your $1000 PayPal Gift Card or $750 Cash APP card. Spend your $1000 in stores or online!' Then it got replaced by a change of site from Fchat to a page at 2021trknew1.top with a survey on how often I use Youtube.

I then backed my way back to this Fchat thread and a few seconds after I got back to it, a pop-up appeared that that said "Dear Google Customer: Congratulations! You are one of 100 users we have selected as part of our reward program. You can win the Samsung Galaxy S10, iPhone 12 or 3 years of free membership to Netflix." The underlying page the pop-up wanted to send me to was at pro2022luckday.xyz.

Note that this was on an iPad that I only use to browse the internet on trips and the last trip I made with it was pre-pandemic. So it is unlikely to have been compromised or have cookies/cache content. I verified by clearing cookies/cache and I was still seeing the same popup/re-direct. I confirmed it happens on other Fchat threads, but it did not happen when I went to a few other random sites.

 

Rob, see my post just before yours. I confirmed it happens on a likely clean iPad/Safari browser combo.

 

I also got a big "this website is phishing" warning message last night when I hit FChat on a Windows 10 PC via Microsoft Edge browser. I didn't look at it too closely or take a screen shot. FWIW, I am currently writing from a different Windows 10/Edge PC and have not had a problem here.

I think it is something on the FChat side; not a local browser problem.

 

When did Kirill turn off the inline ads? My iPad stopped showing any more hijacks shortly after your post #19.

Be sure to clear your browser caches, cookies, and history. Also check that there are no unwanted browser extensions or add-ons.