Everytime a googleAd gets loaded on my iPhone/iPad it redirects me to a white page with just the ad.

8 times so far today, 4 times trying to load the same thread.

Ditto

I assume you guys are using iOS?

If so, it is a Safari issue that happens sometimes when loading a URL that has a # sign in it (which occurs when you click on 'read the most current post' link, for example).

Previously, this was only occurring on standard Safari, but now it seems to have graduated to the mobile Safari as well.

Last I checked with Lego, he said it was an issue with Safari that he could not fix, but I don't know if anything has changed since then.

No way to just disable the google ads on the mobile theme?

For the record, although I'm getting an issue on an ipad, I'm using Chrome as my browser.

It only started happening yesterday, after experiencing a few hours where I was unable to open the site due to a DNS lookup error.

Don't know if they're related, but it does seem like a coincidence if they're not.

It doesn't always happen on my iPad, and is happening significantly more often today than it has in the past. I rarely surf Dakka on anything but my iPad anymore.

It doesn't always happen with google ads (for example, there's a google ad at the top of the page now) but when it does happen, it's a google ad.

And I've had it happen when normally clicking a thread, not just when I click "view first unread".

Yeah, this started happening me the other day too. It's SUPER annoying because you lose the "new post" link and I have to find it manually.

And yes, Safari on my iPhone.

I was going to ask, has anyone been getting this on Android devices?

I've been browsing solidly with Chrome for Android for a few months now, and I've never had this issue.

Also note its happening on my BlackBerry as well.

This has been happening on my iPhone as well.

Yep, iPhone for me as well.

Been having the problem on my iPad, started today. Took 4 tries just to get onto this page using safari.

Also, just to note, "View First unread" links don't have a #.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/skipread/516502.page

So it has nothing to do with a #.

Some do:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/517256.page#5450246

And I hit the bug on a non-# link. In chrome and Safari on my iPad, print friendly theme.

This is happening to me all the time. Glad someone posted it already because its hard to explain.

I'm using an iPhone.


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P.s. it happens when I post in a thread too. Even this very thread!

Am Running a version thats a bit older Most of the Time on mobiles but this "google ad white Page " happens. So what Caused this? The recent interwebz-slowdown?

Happens to me mostly on my iPad using Safari, and occasionally on my iPhone as well...

Happens to me on iPad but strangely enough, I have seen it in both Safari and Chrome.

Yeah, it definitely happens in Chrome on my iPad as well.

Any Android tablets/phones want to chime in and see if it's just how iOS handles javascript or some other stupid thing?

I'm assuming it's just Apple (and 1 Blackberry atm)

I've yet to get it on my DROID Razr Maxx or my Kindle Fire...

If only I could view source on my iPad...

I'm using Safari mobile. I should have been more specific before.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/517256.page#5459468

So why the difference between that link and the one with "skipread" that I posted earlier?
When/how does the forum decide which URL to use?

rigeld2 wrote:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/517256.page#5459468

So why the difference between that link and the one with "skipread" that I posted earlier?
When/how does the forum decide which URL to use?

I don't know how you obtained that previous URL, but the way it works is this:

Anytime you are jumping to a specific post within a thread, then it generates a # symbol and then a number after that, with that last number being the specific post number (which tells the browser where to 'jump' to within the page).

So if you click on the little 'page' icon on the top left of any individual post the URL then changes to represent a page load going to that particular post...so if you ever want to generate a URL pointing to a specific post in a thread, that's what that little 'page' icon on the top left of every post is for.

When you're clicking on the 'skip to the new post' link, it should always be generating that # sign because it is always jumping to a specific post.

The Skipread URL is used when clicking on 'First Unread'.

Which is generally how I end up getting the issue on my iPhone/iPad.

The skipread and the hash URL are both generated from "view first unread".

I'm just trying to figure out why it's sometimes one and sometimes the other.

rigeld2 wrote:
The skipread and the hash URL are both generated from "view first unread".

I'm just trying to figure out why it's sometimes one and sometimes the other.

Again, the hashtag URL with a number after it represents a specific post within a page...anytime you are viewing the first unread you should be seeing a hashtag URL (as it is jumping to a specific post).

 yakface wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:
The skipread and the hash URL are both generated from "view first unread".

I'm just trying to figure out why it's sometimes one and sometimes the other.

Again, the hashtag URL with a number after it represents a specific post within a page...anytime you are viewing the first unread you should be seeing a hashtag URL (as it is jumping to a specific post).

Again, I've gotten the skipread URL from a view first unread link.
I understand how the hashtag works. I understand you're telling me how you understand it to work.
It does not only give hash links.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/skipread/493399.page
From the view first unread link under subscribed posts. The same way I get hashtag links.

it appears the SkipRead is a redirect, it redirects to a # URL.

Well, Legoburner is in the middle of traveling right now. He's seen the comments, but if anything can be done, it won't be for at least a little while.

I could swear I've gotten a hashed URL from a view first unread (by hovering) but can't duplicate it right now.

edit: I'm not demanding a fix in 10 minutes or anything... it's just frustrating.
Maybe I should DCM because it feels like I have bitched too much about it.

Been having the same issue on my iPhone 4s at least 50% of the time when i hit first unread or after i make a post update.

http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-4373598795008062&format=468x60_as&output=html&h=60&w=468&channel=3544288110&ad_type=text&ea=0&color_bg=FFFFFF&color_border=FFFFFF&color_link=0000FF&color_text=000000&color_url=008000&flash=0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dakkadakka.com%2Fdakkaforum%2Fposts%2Flist%2F516911.page&dt=1364830741208&bpp=25&shv=r20130326&cbv=r20130206&correlator=1364830741283&frm=23&adk=2242911621&ga_vid=903258873.1337633117&ga_sid=1364826086&ga_hid=598220681&ga_fc=1&u_tz=-240&u_his=29&u_java=0&u_h=480&u_w=320&u_ah=480&u_aw=300&u_cd=32&u_nplug=1&u_nmime=34&dff=times&dfs=16&adx=646&ady=0&biw=980&bih=425&isw=468&ish=60&ifk=1202277029&oid=3&top=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dakkadakka.com%2Fdakkaforum%2Fposts%2Flist%2F516911.page%235440500&fu=4&ifi=1&dtd=116#5440500


here is a copy of one of the URLS

Yes! For the love of The Emperor, please fix this one! I get it quite a bit on my iPad and iPhone. Amazingly annoying as others have noted!

Valete,

JohnS

This is happening to me as well, but only when I post a reply on a thread or send a PM.

Okay, this is weird.

The main annoyance I have is that hitting back goes back to where I was before loading the thread and the "view first unread" is gone.

Just playing around I figured out that if you click "view first" and "bounce" the page (just drag up and down) while its loading and the page has a google ad, the google ad will take over but hitting back will take you to the new post in the thread with no ad loaded at the top.

azreal13 wrote:For the record, although I'm getting an issue on an ipad, I'm using Chrome as my browser.

It only started happening yesterday, after experiencing a few hours where I was unable to open the site due to a DNS lookup error.

Don't know if they're related, but it does seem like a coincidence if they're not.

1st of all Chrome on iOS is not actually Chrome. It's nothing more then a front end app that uses Safari as its core. Think of it more like a skinned app... You're seeing Chrome, but in actuality you're still using Safari. Sorry, needed to get that out of the way, it irks me.


Anyway, this issue is happening to me as well. Somewhat glad to see I'm not the only one.

Curious, have those that can (DCMs and mods) tried turning off adverts? I just did, will report on results.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Curious, have those that can (DCMs and mods) tried turning off adverts? I just did, will report on results.

Initial testing I have done seems to indicate that it does work but turning ads off seems to have affected other things for some reason - I seem to be unable to jump to the last post properly and the formatting on the reply screen is buggered up. Not sure i this is simply due to having the ads turned off or some other bug but I never noticed it before.


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Addendum: it seems only certain threads display the strange behaviour after turning ads off. This thread, for example, when pressing the jump to last post button, for some reason goes to Yakfaces's post at the top of page 2. Likewise, when posting a reply, the window is all messed up and strangely formatted - I had to manually zoom right in to see the reply box properly. However, other threads are fine - I tested a few in OT just to see and they behaved as expected.

Mine also jumped to yaks post, but I didn't have the reply box issue (iPad for what it's worth).

Since people have asked about android: I've never had this happen running android. Also: what google ads? I thought those only showed up when one wasn't logged in? The only ad I see is the banner at the top next to the title logo (unless that's what you're talking about; I think "adwords" when I hear "google ads").

There are some obnoxious behaviors when loading a tab with a # in the URL, but only if you're not looking at it when it jumps down to the tag (opening a first unread tab then going and reading an already loaded thread in the meantime), but those still load the page in question, and I'm chalking it up to smartphone browsers just being generally horrible at everything.

Yes, there's google ads in the banner at the top right of the page sometimes.


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http://imgur.com/riHsjD6

Hashed URL, google ad, no redirection.

This is mind boggling.

This appears to be getting worse, if anything. It's now almost every time I post, click on 'First Unread' and even occasionally when I click back from being diverted it re-diverts me back to another ad.

Same here.

Though I've taken to simply clicking the last page that I was on and scrolling around until I find where I left off.

Turn off ads for those that can, issue has vanished.

This wouldn't be Nearly so annoying if you didn't lose the First Unread link when it happened. Hitting back take you back to the index rather than the post you were on, and then the First Unread link no longer work and you have to try and figure out where you were in the thread.

 AduroT wrote:
This wouldn't be Nearly so annoying if you didn't lose the First Unread link when it happened. Hitting back take you back to the index rather than the post you were on, and then the First Unread link no longer work and you have to try and figure out where you were in the thread.

Exactly!

It is killing my mobile device browsing of Dakka Dakka!

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Turn off ads for those that can, issue has vanished.

This works for my iPad but I do encounter the new problems noted by Filbert.

It is an improvement though.

If it helps, I didn't start having this problem until I updated to ios 6.1.3.

 Alpharius wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
This wouldn't be Nearly so annoying if you didn't lose the First Unread link when it happened. Hitting back take you back to the index rather than the post you were on, and then the First Unread link no longer work and you have to try and figure out where you were in the thread.

Exactly!

It is killing my mobile device browsing of Dakka Dakka!

Ditto.

 Alpharius wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
This wouldn't be Nearly so annoying if you didn't lose the First Unread link when it happened. Hitting back take you back to the index rather than the post you were on, and then the First Unread link no longer work and you have to try and figure out where you were in the thread.

Exactly!

It is killing my mobile device browsing of Dakka Dakka!

Strangely, my productivity at work has increased proportionally.

I was very much hoping that google or apple would fix the problem but it has remained consistent. As top priority I am going to add a workaround to avoid displaying google adverts in the situations where this would be activated, thereby removing all trace of the problem. I should have this done by some point next week.

You da man, as always.

Thanks Lego - much appreciated!

I don't know if it's related or not but "First Unread" link seems to sporadically malfunction when the google add malfunction doesn't happen. Instead of bringing me to my last unread post it brings me to a much earlier one on the last page.

Thanks Lego.
The loss of last post and going for the last page was annoying.

Make it stop! my mobile browsing of Dakka is in peril!

Thank you Lego! It is a very annoying issue to be sure for us iOS guys!

A rough fix is now in place. It breaks the header visually a bit but I will fix that later. For now enjoy functional browsing again iOS people.

Thank you.

Thanks Dakka Tech Priests!

 legoburner wrote:
A rough fix is now in place. It breaks the header visually a bit but I will fix that later. For now enjoy functional browsing again iOS people.

I love you man.

Indeed, thanks Lego!

Hi Lego, just to note that the Google Ad redirection issue has started happening again when browsing Dakka on my iPad (using worksafe theme not mobile). I also have ads turned off which was the previous fix. I am still getting the redirection but to a blank page (presumably because ads are disabled).

I don't know if this occurred around the time Lego fixed it, but this was happening on my phone, until I wiped my internet history, and then it worked fine. I know that can solve other issues with using an iPhone on Dakka, so may be worth trying if this continues

Yeah I made some tweaks yesterday which appear to have broken that aspect of it again! Working on it at the moment - estimated fix in place by Thursday.

Yep, still happening on my iPhone and iPad, but in Lego I Trust

Same. After I cleared my cache it happens all the time now. :(

Right!

Noted:

 legoburner wrote:
Yeah I made some tweaks yesterday which appear to have broken that aspect of it again! Working on it at the moment - estimated fix in place by Thursday.

It is currently Saturday guys!

And yeah, I'm getting this when I browse via my iPhone too...

Logging out and then back in again seems to fix the issue for me, though only for a while. i logged out yesterday and it stopped it from happening. But when I came back today, the issue was back until I logged out again.

In some topics it doesn't happen at all, but in others, it renders them totally unreadable. I'm less frustrated than bewildered.

Yeah this is happening to me every time I post in a topic. I get redirected to an ad.

Using the standard (Dakka 2012 orange) theme on iPad.

I'm happy to get ads in banners and stuff, it's what keeps sites like this afloat, and a lot of the ads on Dakka are quite handy and wargaming related anyway. But these Google redirect ads are the usual targeted ads that misinterpret what wargaming is and try to get me to play gakky mobile games with war in the title, that get annoying. (I assume it's unintentional anyway)

Just to verify, are people seeing it from browsing, or just after posting?

 legoburner wrote:
Just to verify, are people seeing it from browsing, or just after posting?

I get it both from clicking on a 'first unread' link and when posting using the 'quick reply' box. In either case, if the new page has an Adsense ad on it, you get redirected. General browsing doesn't seem to trigger it, neither have I had it happen with standard (non-quick reply) posting.

I have the same as above, but it also triggers when posting normally.
In which case pressing "back" goes back to the post writing screen, and can mean it resubmits if I'm not quick on the ball.

This is happening to me too. I'm using an iPhone and it only seems to happen when using 'first unread', although I've also had odd behaviour when using the quick reply, where as I start to type the keyboard disappears. Not sure if that's because the focus is being moved to something else (e.g. an ad) or if it's unrelated. But they both started happening at the same time.

Thanks for the info - appears to be consistent with the last time it happened, basically whenever there is a # symbol in the URL on iOS, the advert takes over the screen. Fix is pending!

Thanks Lego , I noticed it was happening this morning again, but got sidetracked before I could notify here. Always glad to see DakkaDakka on the ball with fixes.

Been happening to me lately as well- iOS Safari user. Not only do I get it from the "First Unread" occasionally, but also from the black arrow/white page button that takes you to the last post. I usually hit First Unread, back to my subbed threads, then try the arrow and it throws up the same ad.

Have not yet encountered any ads from the quick reply.

Thursday can't get here soon enough - and not just because I've got the day off!

You guys have still had it in the past 12 hours?

I have. In the last two for sure, more than likely sooner.

And just found the Quick Reply ad just now.

Yep, still getting it.

 legoburner wrote:
You guys have still had it in the past 12 hours?

Constantly.
From all of the above reasons.

Appears not any more on iPhone?

Nevermind, it's back.

I haven't had any problems today.

Still having issues, can't wait for this to be fixed!

I spoke too soon. The problems are back with avengance.

Seems to be okay for me at the moment.

Anyone still having the issue, try logging out and then back in again.

I haven't had the issue happen to me since I've done that...so I'm curious to see if that fixes the issue for others as well.

Has had little effect for me. Although I only see it about once every 8-12 times I click First Unread.

I spoke too soon. It happened to me again (pressing first unread) so I logged out and logged back in, but it's still happening.

Yeah, even for me, at best logging out and back in again only temporarily seems to prevent it from happening.

My Google Ads problems started this weekend on my iPad, using Safari. Never had a problem until this weekend.


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 legoburner wrote:
Just to verify, are people seeing it from browsing, or just after posting?

I only get it from using "First Unread" or whatever.

Thanks guys, no need to report anymore. I know the bug and will have it fixed on Thursday afternoon UK time

Thanks!

You know that this is seriously delaying the Alpharius Dorn Primarch sculpt too, don't you?!?

 Alpharius wrote:
You know that this is seriously delaying the Alpharius Dorn Primarch sculpt too, don't you?!?

Doh!

ok I've made a gentle change which might fix it, but might not. Please let me know how you get on over the next 12 hours. There is a more aggressive change I can make this evening if this fix does not work.


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no comments so far - bodes well

I has not mobiled the Dakka, yet!

I haven't noticed the bug yet so a tentative thumbs up.

No trouble on my end so far.

It's been a few days and I've not had a problem.

Cheers for sorting it Lego!

Aye, not had it since. Thanks so much, Lego. Was becoming a right frustration.

Hurrah, glad the fix works nicely

I haven't had the problem for a while.

Way to not suck!