OT: The Thread About Nothing 203

[BenedictGomez]

Remember when the History Channel showed history?

History Channel (HC) used to be one of my favorite channels. Sure, it was a little WWII top-heavy, but at least it was history.

A few HC shows like American Pickers, you can learn some history from, but that's almost run its' course, as they focus WAY TOO MUCH on the same items over-and-over again. There's only so many oil cans & motorcycle parts I can watch you purchase before I turn the channel.

If you like history, American Heroes Channel (AHC) is way better than HC. It's a little WWI & WWII top-heavy, but at least it shows history.

 

[JimEIV]

This is how I fish most of the time.

 

[BenedictGomez]

I just read the iPhone 10 came out today; it's 2017, and people are STILL falling for this scam?

 

[Brick City]

Is anyone else here being redirected to scammy "claim your prize" or "your phone has a virus" websites from HF? It happens at least once nearly every time I've visited this site on my phone the last couple weeks (it only happens on HF).

 

[BenedictGomez]

Is anyone else here being redirected to scammy "claim your prize"

It happened to me a few days ago from my desktop computer while on HFBoards with Chrome. Only happened once. I immediately ran a malware check and it came up empty.

 

[Ripshot 43]

Is anyone else here being redirected to scammy "claim your prize" or "your phone has a virus" websites from HF? It happens at least once nearly every time I've visited this site on my phone the last couple weeks (it only happens on HF).

Yes to the virus one. Says I need to download something from Apple and use it for the next 4 weeks... seriously, how do they not shut these people down.

 

[Darkauron]

Yes to the virus one. Says I need to download something from Apple and use it for the next 4 weeks... seriously, how do they not shut these people down.

It is an absolute joke that they let such ads allowed on this site. It is the shadiest and worst of the worst kind of ads. They should be ashamed of for allowing this.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Are those actual advertisements? It seems more like a browser hijack.

 

[Ripshot 43]

Are those actual advertisements? It seems more like a browser hijack.

I would assume it’s something like what you just mentioned since I also got the one last week which was nude pictures for some new website. Only happened on HFboards tho.

 

[JimEIV]

Those ads started here for me as well but I am getting them in other places now... hockey reference also.

It's Amazon, Walmart and Virus alert all behaving in the same way. Looks like an ad redirect. I tried cleaning my cache and deleting data but it's still happening. Going to have read up on it.

 

[Billdo]

has anyone else’s iphone been doing some weird autocorrecting over the past week or so? it keeps changing ‘it’ to ‘i.t’ for me, and there is no way to fix it other than going back and changing every time i type i.t. IT. jesus. i even set up a shortcut in the keyboard settings, but it’s not working

Mine just started changing I to an exclamation point and a square on this forum.

 

[None Shall Pass]

Use ad-blockers! It's for your own (internet) safety! Seriously!

 

[BenedictGomez]

Use ad-blockers! It's for your own (internet) safety! Seriously!

I installed the one you recommended a few weeks ago (uBlock Origin) I think? It works pretty well.

 

[BenedictGomez]

So I just figured out I can circumvent my companies blocked website list my using the Wayback machine.

Feels good.

 

[None Shall Pass]

I installed the one you recommended a few weeks ago (uBlock Origin) I think? It works pretty well.

Good call! It's a treat! Also, sadly necessary on some sites (Like this one). Bigger operations put more effort into integrating their ads with user experience - Facebook, for example, doesn't give you full-page popups, because they know people would complain and possibly leave. Smaller operations don't have that luxury, and will take whatever pays the best.

So I just figured out I can circumvent my companies blocked website list my using the Wayback machine.

Feels good.

Oldest trick in the book, and a good one as well! Thumbs up!

 

[Saugus]

Use ad-blockers! It's for your own (internet) safety! Seriously!

I use No-Script and that works pretty well. Nothing runs unless I want it to.

Are those actual advertisements? It seems more like a browser hijack.

I've seen it happen on a few other sites too. They are essentially clickjacking you, but they are indeed ads, so someone must be paying for them. Damned if I know why though.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Oldest trick in the book, and a good one as well! Thumbs up!

Is it?

Awwww man.... it just dawned on me as something to try, and it actually worked; so I thought I stumbled on the "e-circumventing" version of E=MC^2.

 

[None Shall Pass]

Is it?

Awwww man.... it just dawned on me as something to try, and it actually worked; so I thought I stumbled on the "e-circumventing" version of E=MC^2.

Well, not the oldest, but a fairly well-known one. If it makes you feel better, like 99% of the population doesn't know to do that, so you're still in the upper echelon!

archive.is is another good resource for similar. The downside of this stuff is that it requires people to actually archive the links before you can find them - so you might find some resources aren't available yet, or at all. And if there was an update to a link after it being archived, that won't show up either, unless someone archived it (again) with the update.

Here's a decent article on how this is all made: https://lifehacker.com/the-best-tools-to-archive-web-pages-1794802605

 

[BenedictGomez]

Is there a setting to get rid of the:

Messages have been posted since you loaded this page. View them?

I find it incredibly annoying, and functionally illogical and useless.

 

[Saugus]

It could be useful for a fast moving thread, where what you're saying could have been posted by someone else already. But most of the time it does seem useless.

 

[thethinglonger]

Just a reminder to go vote today

 

[Devils Dominion]

Just a reminder to go vote today

For NJ Gov, they asked both candidates who their favorite sports teams were

Phil said US men's soccer
Kim said New Jersey Devils

 

[Scorcho]

For NJ Gov, they asked both candidates who their favorite sports teams were

Phil said US men's soccer
Kim said New Jersey Devils

Eh, went with Murphy anyway.

 

[Devils Dominion]

Eh, went with Murphy anyway.

Prepare for massive tax hikes..

 

[None Shall Pass]

As someone who doesn't live in NJ anymore, I hope you guys vote for the legal weed candidate.