I keep getting a Google competition on Boards on my phone. Doesn't happen on any other website.
Anyone else having this issue or have a solution?
Thank you all for flagging this and adding to the resolve with your screenshots and info. I'm closing this thread now as the issue has been resolved.
Mike.
Maybe, but it was a malicious add taking advantage of a Chrome exploit, people should be more annoyed at Google than Boards.ie to be honest.
A bit of an own goal in terms of how long it took to resolve. Many who hadn't previously installed an ad-blocker will have done so now.
Yay I won too 🙄
Hi all,
So Snigle has now blocked the domain causing trouble with their pop ups. They have also added additional protection against pop up ads, forceful redirects and malicious ads. All ads will be pre-checked before serving the site, this may cause a very slight latency before serving some ads but it is a good compromise to protect the users here from such ads.
This particular domain was reported to Google yesterday evening also. They had set up this aggressive campaign yesterday.
As always there if anyone spots these type of ads please continue to report them so they can be removed and blocked as soon as possible. Thank you all for keeping an eye out and reporting this.
I know what a 24hr emergency contact means.
I was just pointing out that the issue started when they (Vanilla) were still in normal office hours. I don’t know where in Canada they are based but it would have been 1pm on the west coast when this thread was opened.
One can always participate in Vanilla’s bug bounty program.
You’re right there. Whilst not a direct hacking per se, what is happening comes within the realm of cybersecurity infringements. Delivering malware to end users who permit revenue ads is not on.
got this on iphone safari as well
logged out , cleared cookies and history and updated to IOS 17
now it wont let me log in to boards.ie on phone
I get it. Bad things can happen when running services online – but this was a reputation buster for me.
I presume this came from some rogue ad running malicious code. I mean, what else is happening under the hood that normal users don’t see? I just loaded up Boards.ie in browser developer mode – and it’s a bit of an eye opener what is happening.
In my opinion you need the ability to turn off the whole web site in an instant. It’s not acceptable to redirect users to scam web sites for an extended period.
I’m sure many users would have said Boards was hacked (in fairness, it kind of was indirectly). Then you have users’ question the safety of their personal data. Is it even safe to use Boards on my work laptop for example? Or is it now in the same category as trying to stream illegal soccer?
Overall, just not cool. Shouldn’t have happened and recovery / prevention needs to be faster.
Still not getting this at all, iOS Safari, no present ad blocker active, but Norton filtering.
I think you might be overestimating the scale of boards.ie
This is an annoying thing to deal with without a doubt. It's been happening for less than a day though, give them time to sort it. If it's still happening this time next week I'll join in with the whinging.
Do you know what emergency 24/7 contact means? It means someone gets woken up or responsibility transfers to someone in another timezone.
When you are running a web-based business it's shockingly bad form to serve potential malware to customers for 13 hours and for the admin to just shrug and go to bed and hope someone fixes it in the morning.
Beasty has already posted here on this thread so has noticed the issue. As have I. If you have nothing of any value to add to the issue this thread was set up to talk about then please keep your comments to yourself.
This is out of their wheelhouse tbf.
Only happening on my android phone while connected to wifi, not when I'm connected to mobile data as mentioned before.
Mods to busy banning people it would seem to notice the issue.
Shut the bloody site down until it’s fixed. Someone must have the ability.
I’m getting the same pop up on chrome on android every time I go to boards. I got a similar pop up on Safari on an iPhone too
This is not an intentional serving of spam to our users here. This is something we are fully aware of and actively working on to remove. It should not have appeared on site and we will be making a full investigation into how this happened.
Needless to say but, "DO NOT CLICK THE LINKS".
I will report back here when I have an update.
This thread was created at 9pm last night so unless their office is in the first time zone, they would have known about this before clocking off for the day.
Happening consistently on Android but no issues on desktop.
Happening here too
Still happening
Most companies would have an emergency 24/7 contact number for someone on the technical side. That's standard industry practice and has been for decades.
Serving malware popups to your customers for 12 hours (and counting). Shocking stuff.
I have an ad blocker and I don’t feel one bit bad about it.
Do you still have to wait till the vanilla office opens in Canada before this is looked into?
Guys, what the actual f*ck is this?
Absolutely unnacceptable to have this happen on a legitmate web site.
shocking
Nice one boards. Off down the dodgy route are we?
is the site hacked? getting random scams/ popups
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