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Offline Robert J Smith

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Re: Shipspotting.com wants to show messages?
« Reply #30 on: April 13, 2019, 02:33:18 PM »
Thanks guys, still reluctant to click any button, might say "block" but does it?

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Re: Shipspotting.com wants to show messages?
« Reply #31 on: April 13, 2019, 03:14:17 PM »
Are other members receiving messages similar to the one shown below at:
http://forum.shipspotting.com/index.php/topic,16542.msg87979.html#msg87979


If you are getting different ones, please also post a screen-shot.
« Last Edit: April 13, 2019, 05:32:55 PM by davidships »

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Re: Shipspotting.com wants to show messages?
« Reply #32 on: April 13, 2019, 05:30:46 PM »
David, the message you linked to appears (at least on my system) opening another site of Shipspotting.com after blocking the first message on the initial website.

I blocked this on both Windows 10 and macOS Mojave (in both cases using Firefox). It did not reappear on Windows 10, but it does on macOS Mojave.

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Re: Shipspotting.com wants to show messages?
« Reply #33 on: April 13, 2019, 08:02:16 PM »
Hi,I am receiving same message as Robert J. Smith posted before," block or allow".
I didn

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Re: Shipspotting.com wants to show messages?
« Reply #34 on: April 13, 2019, 09:20:09 PM »
Hi,

I still got the message today on Chrome and tried using adblock to get rid of it. I answered some questions and closed Chrome. I opened it after a while and when I opened Shipspotting's home page the windows showed up briefly then closed without my interaction. The situation was repeated at almost every change of pages on the site so I decided to continue my visit on Edge, another navigator.

I checked in Chrome's options and shipspotting.sendpulse was on the blocked list.

However, still no problem with Microsoft Edge, so far at least.

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Re: Shipspotting.com wants to show messages?
« Reply #35 on: April 13, 2019, 11:58:03 PM »
Are other members receiving messages similar to the one shown below at:
http://forum.shipspotting.com/index.php/topic,16542.msg87979.html#msg87979


If you are getting different ones, please also post a screen-shot.

Yes, but only at work using Chrome. Mozilla at home is fine.

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Re: Shipspotting.com wants to show messages?
« Reply #36 on: April 14, 2019, 12:50:21 AM »
I am using Mozilla and as of today still receiving this message.

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Re: Shipspotting.com wants to show messages?
« Reply #37 on: April 14, 2019, 05:07:48 PM »
As it happens, I refreshed Firefox today and subsequently received the popup again.  Looking at its detail, it is a function of google-analytics (the system that collects data about us, linked to google-ads).  See attached and one I also received in the more common form from another site.
Reading elsewhere, the preferences are apparently stored as a cookie and/or "tracking snippet" but the popup request renews if you clear your cookies.
I expect that Henrik knows all about this - but he has not replied to me yet.


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Re: Shipspotting.com wants to show messages?
« Reply #38 on: May 08, 2019, 02:07:00 PM »
Any update yet?

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Re: Shipspotting.com wants to show messages?
« Reply #39 on: May 09, 2019, 12:43:05 AM »
Hi,

After a serious attack stopped by my antivirus, I stopped using Microsoft Edge and returned to Google Chrome. I still get the message each time I change page on Shipspotting but Adblock close it quite rapidly. Shipspotting is the only site where I have this.

 

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