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Livid - porn on my phone! please help

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bibbitybobbityyhat · 15/07/2016 08:12

I'm not the most tech savvy person, can anyone help please?

Last night I was posting on Mumsnet and an advert for a sex chat site appeared out of nowhere which had a close up video of a woman using a vibrator on herself that completely filled the screen Angry.

How did I inadvertently do this? It was on the Louise Mensch thread, I followed a link to the tweet and read it, then went back to post my message. I think when I hit post is when the porn appeared but I can't be entirely sure. I couldn't work out how to get it to stop either for a minute, or how to close the page.

I don't want porn on my phone ffs! What can I do?

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user1469481605 · 25/07/2016 22:29

On pg 7 danielbtech from MNHQ mentioned an iPhone app to download to help report bad ads.

VintageTeacup · 25/07/2016 22:15

Had a porn pop up here, was on a thread in chat. I'm on an iPhone, using safari, on mobile site.

MermaidofZennor · 25/07/2016 22:10

I'm getting the basic MN screen, like Danger says - quite a lot. Still no spam despite spending last hour or so milling about reading various threads, so maybe I'm in the clear now?

boldlygoingsomewhere · 25/07/2016 21:10

I've just had an add for Fuckswipe pop up while I was browsing an active thread.

I'm on an iPhone using Safari - first time it's happened to me.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 25/07/2016 21:09

it's back .theres a thread in chat on it.
here so it clearly is ad related.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 25/07/2016 18:46

I'm getting pampers ads now!!

PortiaCastis · 25/07/2016 18:20

I keep getting what Danger posted too. It's bloody annoying

MermaidofZennor · 25/07/2016 17:59

Haven't seen any porn yet, and no more Tesco pop ups today. Will keep close watch and have asked DD and DS to tell me immediately if anything appears on their kindles.

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KateMumsnet · 25/07/2016 17:06

@GloGirl

Just what you wanted - school holiday trolls and porn pop ups Grin hope you've got a fully stocked gin cupboard!

we have no gin yet slightly too early even for us. Thanks so much for the tea though.

I believe all we're looking for are pop-ups and redirects - the strangely basic-looking MN isn't related as far as I know, but tech are aware.

paxillin · 25/07/2016 17:00

Forgot to add - I'm on android, samsung tablet, but on the website not the app.

paxillin · 25/07/2016 16:58

No porn or tesco here today.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 25/07/2016 15:55

I'm getting what Danger posted every 5 mins or so. Porn has gone though as has the Tesco scam.

GloGirl · 25/07/2016 15:52

Thanks for the honesty Brew

Just what you wanted - school holiday trolls and porn pop ups Grin hope you've got a fully stocked gin cupboard!

DangerQuakeRhinoSnake · 25/07/2016 15:51

Are we still looking for things like this (which just happened to me)?

Livid - porn on my phone! please help
OhYouBadBadKitten · 25/07/2016 15:28

does that mean I can't use my phone now?

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KateMumsnet · 25/07/2016 15:09

Hello all

We've been working very closely with one of our ad partners over the weekend screening a test page - we thought we'd identified the source of these things. Alas, it looks as though we spoke too soon- so we're going to turn ads on again fully, and continue to isolate elements of our ad-serving system till we pin down the source. Really sorry - there isn't another way of doing this.

Please do let us know if it happens again, by mailing [email protected] or posting here. Many thanks - again - for your patience and help.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 23/07/2016 22:38

yay! I can use my phone again?

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DawnMumsnet · 23/07/2016 22:35

Very relieved to hear that the porn is finally gorn.

As for the massive MN logo, we've flagged this to our Tech team (there's a whole other thread about it in Site Stuff) and they're on the case.

We'll update again as soon as we have some news.

Many thanks for bearing with us. Flowers

AYD2MITalkTalk · 23/07/2016 18:28

Like Roussette says, it's always been an occasional problem, but I've never had it happen as often as it does at the moment.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 23/07/2016 18:22

No porn since clearing caches but keep getting the basic version of MN at least every ten mins...

Roussette · 23/07/2016 16:30

I've had that basic version of MN intermittently since I've been on here and that's been 10 years! It's very very infrequent but can't say that I've seen it since this latest problem.

AYD2MITalkTalk · 23/07/2016 11:33

Still needs fixing, though remember MN, your precious adverts don't show on the basic version!

AYD2MITalkTalk · 23/07/2016 11:28

Although… here it is again! Grin

Livid - porn on my phone! please help
AYD2MITalkTalk · 23/07/2016 11:27

I remain a teeny bit unconvinced that the super basic MN version has nothing to do with the porn etc. pop-ups, since, while it did used to happen occasionally (especially when MN was even slower and less reliable than it is at the moment), it got very frequent at the same time as the pop-ups started. Could just be a coincidence, I suppose…

paxillin · 23/07/2016 10:30

No porn Smile. Seems sorted.

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