Re: [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

It happened in my Android phone chrome but I have experienced this
phenomenem on Firefox in Ubuntu too.

Regards,
Rony.

On Mon, May 21, 2018, 1:15 PM Rajen M. Parekh <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 21-05-2018 13:11, Rony Bill wrote:
> > Just happened today.
> >
> > Click on Register Now and a spam tab opens. If you close it, your
> > registration page is there.
> >
> > http://youtoocancycle.com
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rony.
>
> Didn't happen with on Firefox. On clicking "Register Now", the following
> page opened in new tab:
>
> http://youtoocanrun.com/races/get-cycloned-the-smart-commute-way/
>
> No spam pages. I'm using MTNL broadband.
>
> Rajen.
>
>
> > On Mon, May 21, 2018, 12:11 PM Rajeev R. K. <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 21 May 2018 at 12:09, Dhruva Lokegaonkar <dhruva-22dYR/[email protected]
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I haven't seen those on clean pages but I've had those on before on a
> >>> few "content providers of questionable legality". What a lot of sites
> do
> >>> is add a invisible box in front of the whole page which links to an
> >>> advertisment pop up. Maybe one of the embeded advertisments is able to
> >>> use that technique.
> >>>
> >>> I don't think it's a virus or a rouge extention since it's happening on
> >>> both your phone and PC. Maybe someone else might have a better Idea
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 05/21/2018 12:02 PM, Rony Bill wrote:
> >>>> Hello Friends,
> >>>>
> >>>> Off late I have observed that when visiting some websites (Clean
> ones),
> >>>> especially where a form is to be filled, a spam advts tab opens in the
> >>>> browser. It happens in Android as well as Ubuntu in Firefox. In my
> >> Ubuntu
> >>>> laptop, I was on a sports shopping site and just when I clicked on Buy
> >>> Now,
> >>>> it opened a spam page, even playing an advt video.
> >>>>
> >>>> What is this new phenomenon happening?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Rony.
> >>>
> >> Some sample URL's where you see such behaviour might be helpful, to let
> us
> >> diagnose the issue.
> >>
> >> Thanks and Regards
> >>
> >> R. K. Rajeev
> >> Ph : +91-9323802020
> >>
> >>
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