Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 12:41 AM, 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 I went to the link and it opened the registration page on a new tab

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

Running something like a Pi-Hole Locally would mitigate that concern. Also, Is injecting traffic like that even legal. Or is this something that's in their Terms of Servicef On 05/22/2018 12:15 PM, Karan K wrote: > I use the extension ublock:origin - >

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

I use the extension ublock:origin - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ You can install this on android firefox as well. Works very nicely. Although I'm still skeptical of the whole privacy issues of having an add-on that can literally get all your browsing history, so

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

Thanks. Will try it out. Regards, Rony. On Tue, May 22, 2018, 9:30 AM Chirag Wazir wrote: > Hi, > > As Richard says, the problem is probably due to MTNL's irritating habit of > injecting Ads. I have never seen them do a full page one - i.e. usually I > saw small popups - but I

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

Hi, As Richard says, the problem is probably due to MTNL's irritating habit of injecting Ads. I have never seen them do a full page one - i.e. usually I saw small popups - but I have had the URLs blocked for a couple of years now, so I suppose they have "progressed". Regarding Rony's question

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

a simple method is to add the unholy url to /etc/host with ip set to 127.0.0.1 I use a proxy, Apart from ghostery, adbloc plus and privacy badger. So the above host entry takes care of android too. On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 9:45 PM, Rony Bill wrote: > Is there any setting

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

Is there any setting in my router that can reduce this? Regards, Rony. On Mon, May 21, 2018, 9:11 PM Richard Victor Correia wrote: > Its done by MTNL as an ISP > > My software website was breaking because of it. > > Using https solved the problem for me. > > > All clients

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

Its done by MTNL as an ISP My software website was breaking because of it. Using https solved the problem for me. All clients were using MTNL On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 7:36 PM GN wrote: > > Please check the site you are trying to load, I guess this happens only > on

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

Yes even on mobile data I have experienced this in Android. Regards, Rony. On Mon, May 21, 2018, 7:36 PM GN wrote: > > Please check the site you are trying to load, I guess this happens only > on those sites that are not on https. This is my guess. These >

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

Please check the site you are trying to load, I guess this happens only on those sites that are not on https. This is my guess. These advertisements are not embedded on the server side, but were injected along the way since the transmission is not encrypted. This behavior will disappear only

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

I think these advts are positioned at form filling portions of a page and may be gathering information from the form data. Regards, Rony. On Mon, May 21, 2018, 1:23 PM Rony Bill wrote: > On Firefox on Ubuntu I had experienced a video playing in a background tab > when

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

On Firefox on Ubuntu I had experienced a video playing in a background tab when trying to buy this tyre. http://www.mastermindbikes.in/Hybrid-Tyres/Schwalbe-Marathon-Plus-SmartGuard-id-2106593.html Regards, Rony. On Mon, May 21, 2018, 1:18 PM Darshit Shah wrote: > It's

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

It's almost fishy the number of scripts that site tries to load. The registration page wants to load >20 scripts. * Rony Bill [180521 09:42]: > Just happened today. > > Click on Register Now and a spam tab opens. If you close it, your > registration page is there. > >

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [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 wrote: > On 21-05-2018 13:11, Rony Bill wrote: > > Just happened today. > > > > Click on Register Now and

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

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:

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

I do use MTNL broadband. Regards, Rony. On Mon, May 21, 2018, 12:47 PM Richard Victor Correia wrote: > MTNL also Puts its code in some HTML pages > > > > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 12:23 PM Rajen M. Parekh > wrote: > > > I have had similar experience.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

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. On Mon, May 21, 2018, 12:11 PM Rajeev R. K. wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2018 at 12:09, Dhruva Lokegaonkar

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

MTNL also Puts its code in some HTML pages On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 12:23 PM Rajen M. Parekh wrote: > I have had similar experience. The interesting thing though was that I > didn't see the same behaviour with the same sites on other machines. So, > I guess the reason

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

I have had similar experience. The interesting thing though was that I didn't see the same behaviour with the same sites on other machines. So, I guess the reason had to be some extension that was installed. I didn't have the time & patience to check which one was the culprit, as the concerned

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

On Mon, 21 May 2018 at 12:09, Dhruva Lokegaonkar 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

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

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

[ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

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

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam?

On 9/15/05, ASHISH TRADING CO. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I received a particular email from a certain company claiming to do research on people who use linux. It's ok to do research but what got my attention was this particular line: It would be grest if you could give us some

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam?

On Sunday 18 September 2005 07:19, SeekingGyan wrote: What is this? :O On 9/15/05, ASHISH TRADING CO. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should've been : On 9/15/05, Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :| -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam?

On Friday 16 September 2005 22:13, Dinesh Joshi wrote: No, i havent visited themever :) Whats MLM? Multi Level Marketing. Amway, though amway is not a scam cause they have consumable products with continuos demand (unless everyone follows RMS and stop bathing). rgds jtd --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam?

On Thursday 15 September 2005 13:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Research and u visit them??. Strange. Unless they are demoing a desktop or handheld or something. Usually the researcher comes to your office by prior appointment and gives u a fair idea of what he is researching. Even if u have to

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam?

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 18:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 15 September 2005 18:59, ASHISH TRADING CO. wrote: Hi list, I received a particular email from a certain company claiming to do research on people who use linux. It's ok to do research but what got my attention was this

[ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam?

Hi list, I received a particular email from a certain company claiming to do research on people who use linux. It's ok to do research but what got my attention was this particular line: It would be grest if you could give us some time of your`s.We assure you that you will not be told to buy

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam?

On Thursday 15 September 2005 18:59, ASHISH TRADING CO. wrote: Hi list, I received a particular email from a certain company claiming to do research on people who use linux. It's ok to do research but what got my attention was this particular line: It would be grest if you could give us