Every time I do a google search or something in my phone's web browser, I usually end up on some kind of a forum where the information is. Upon opening the forum, Tapatalk popup comes up 95% of the times I search for something. This is more annoying than any ad banner or even spam emails. Tapatalk is absolutely SPAM and I hate it so much that I will never ever even consider buying the app.
I know there are browser cookies that will be planted in the cache so next time you visit the same forum, the popup won't be there. But normally when you google search and land on a forum, there are so many forums that it's impossible to plant all those "no thank you Tapatalk" cookies in the browser cache. Also, after some time, I (like everyone else here) reflash/update my ROM and clean out everything, then it starts all over again.
This is a nightmare. Should I be asking this kind of function to Chrome web browser developers? Or is there such a plug-in for Android Chrome that will shut Tapatalk up? There's got to be a way to remove those junk popups.
Bump. We want to be able to get rid of this **** by Crapatalk.
Bump since I agree. Even xda with its huge useless sidebar in tablet mode isn't bad enough to make me want to use an app to browse forums. Feels more like a way to make sure users really watch those ads.
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Hi ppl in the xda hood
I just write to let you know that ChompSMS has now been flagged as malware, both on 2 phone here locally with Avast as scanner, and subsequently by upload to Virustotal, and flagged by some of the major names too.
This concerns both the 5.30 and the update from tonight to v5.31
As Im new, I cannot post urls, but you can dump the apk from both versions, upload for a scan, and have a look at the report yourself from virustotal dot com
XDA must decide if its worth it alarming the community, but better safe than sorry, right?
I guess it could be a false positive, and I do know things should not be rushed about accusations of malware developing, but seeing that several of the major scanners is flagging it both before and after the update, certainly raises my concerns.
I hope those of you who knows your way around decompiling and analyzing code will look into this, so that we can get more eyes on it than "just" the AV companies reports.
Sincerely, Omnius
After a bit of micro-investigating I have so far found these domains in the code, so if you do HAVE to use ChompSMS, (I do) you can ad them to your HOST file, just for the sake of it.
I dont know when or why they will be used but as they are in the code, there is a potential connection lurking in it. Decide for yourself, untill further ppl have a close look than mine.
Im not a dev of any sort, but I do know how to poke around to learn. Therfore please do not just take my words for granted until more competent ppl here have their say.
I do know that a few of these is for "normal" android app ads, and analytics and so on, but these are my finding so far, so filter our what you like it to connect to yourself. If you dont mind ads connections in-app, serve your wish, so to speak.
millennialmedia.com
gateway.textfreek.com
report.bitesms.com
nexage.com
inapp.chompsms.com
adserver.com
greystripe.com
smsgateway.chompsms.com
m.advc.us
cvt.mydas.mobi
rest.starttalking.com
mobileads.google.com
I used to love chompsms... now i guess I'm using GoSMS...
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All of them appear to be valid to the program. Half are ad for ads, the other half are for functionality in ChompSMS.
I would be careful on using go SMS as well.
Antivirus apps will pick up any app that by passes any normal OS use. This always has been and always will be the case.
Anything with ads will always be flagged as it connects to an unknown server.
zelendel said:
I would be careful on using go SMS as well.
Antivirus apps will pick up any app that by passes any normal OS use. This always has been and always will be the case.
Anything with ads will always be flagged as it connects to an unknown server.
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chomp was never flagged before the 5.30 update a few days ago...
really bothers me, i love chomp. i donated to remove the ads. i'm hoping they fixed it with 5.31 and the virus scanners are just still reporting it as a false positive. until it's sorted out though, i uninstalled...
Update : avg doesn't detect anything wrong with the newest version, 5.31.
Lemme tell you...
I noticed the new permissions requested in 5.30 (special access to browser history/bookmarks), and kinda shrugged it off. Dumb move on my part. Immediately upon launching 5.30, I get a notification from ADWLauncher that it cannot fit a new shortcut on my desktop (because the main page was full). So I'm naturally all like WTF... so I flip through my desktop pages to notice that ChompSMS had made itself a shortcut to searchmobileonline.com.
I also heard that it replaces your default browser home page and search method with the same. I use xScope exclusively, so I haven't been able to check that yet.
Delicious, Inc. has really crossed the line with this latest stunt. What were they thinking!? ChompSMS was the best Android messaging app IMHO. Why jeopardize such a great reputation? If it's money they were after, I'd imagine they could've raked in a nice bundle of cash for selling the product to another company.
Does anyone have a copy of this apk that I could take a look at?
kyokeun1234 said:
I used to love chompsms... now i guess I'm using GoSMS...
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
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GoSMS is a security risk
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Does anyone have a copy of this apk that I could take a look at?
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I know this is a old thread but better than starting a new one.
I would like to ask if there is any news on this. I love chomp SMS, imo the best messanger for my taste. I have bought the pro version, to stay away from ads and unnecessary internet data. I have chomp on a brand new phone, no sim card, no messages, just activated chomp and my firewall instantly found chomp active on internet. I watched this for some time and really chomp was trying to do something even I did nothing with it.
important note: there is no data mining in any of their terms. Or at least I did not find anything.
So I contacted chomp about the behavior and they said that "they never seen this before" and suggested reinstall. I did, didn't help.
On the second try, they told me that it is connecting because of ads, but I had the pro version (and they knew it). So no luck.
After the third attempt, they said that chomp is sending once a day info that it is installed so they know how many installs they have.
This sucks a lot. Security concerns appears instantly.
I think it would be worthy to literally sniff a bit around this, since so many people is using chomp.
Apparently in Sense 4.0, whether by accident or by design (I seriously hope it's the former...), HTC broke associating links with apps. I thought this issue was big enough to warrant its own thread.
The main use for this was clicking YouTube links to open in the YouTube app.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf_hdFSnOEI
Instead, ALL HTML links open in the browser. I am willing to bet Play Store app linksdo the same.
Anyone else really frustrated with this? Is there a way to fix this short of installing a custom ROM
Edit: I want to reiterate that clearing browser defaults doesn't help
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Apparently in Sense 4.0, whether by accident or by design (I seriously hope it's the former...), HTC broke associating links with apps. I thought this issue was big enough to warrant its own thread.
The main use for this was clicking YouTube links to open in the YouTube app.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf_hdFSnOEI
Instead, ALL HTML links open in the browser. I am willing to bet Play Store app linksdo the same.
Anyone else really frustrated with this? Is there a way to fix this short of installing a custom ROM?
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Play store links do open in the browser. I've only been back on Android for a couple days after a 5 month iPhone stint so I didn't think anything of it at the time, but now that you bring this up I am retroactively annoyed.
Thought it was just me. Switching launchers doesn't help either. At the very least we should get to choose how links are handled.
I am annoyed by this as well. Hopefully an update will fix this and at least give us the old option list back. At least the youtube page works most of the time.
I need to stop coming to general section...I am seeing more and more bugs...which I never cared but after reading them suddenly I feel a burn in my pocket lol
What gets me mad is youtube links not opening the app. Not only sense 4, but my last phone (Vivid 4.0 Sense 3.6) had the same issue
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
Wasn't there a legal battle against apple where apple sued HTC for opening appropriate based on the nature of text for example opening the dialer when one clicks in the phone number on a website?
Apple won this case right?
Does this have to do something with this?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
Don't think so because clicking a phone number on a web page just brought up the dialer for me
Have you tried "clear defaults" for the stock browser inside the app settings menu? I know I started getting prompted for links through Friendstream and was able to default to Chrome once I did this.
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Have you tried "clear defaults" for the stock browser inside the app settings menu? I know I started getting prompted for links through Friendstream and was able to default to Chrome once I did this.
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I tried clearing defaults for both Chrome and the stock browser (Internet). It still just defaults to whichever I had last had set as default.
what if you 'press + hold' the link does it give you a coice on what to open it with?
Hi,
I am having this extreme annoying problem with Facebook Notifications. Even though this has to do with facebook fixing this stupid annoyance, i am looking for a solution until they actually think for the user and not for themselves.
Every time i am on the PC, whether i'm using Facebook Messenger or am actually browsing through facebook.com with the browser, if i get a notification, those of CHAT most of the time, i receive them on my phone as well. Now everything is fine and is working as it should, but i find it extremely annoying being notified on my phone when i am actually at the heart of facebook where nothing can pass away from my eyes (even ears)
I dont want to stop facebook messenger notifications (nor the facebook main app ones), i just want them to be ignored or call it NOT SENT when i am connected on the browser. There must be a way for facebook to prioritize the destination device (client, me) on where to send the notification or where not.
Regards.
Anything guys? im not a fan of double posts either.
If you haven't worked it out yet mate - this is nothing to do with anyone on XDA.
Yes, there is probably a way for Facebook to do what you want - so ask the guys at FB who are paid $100k+ to write the apps for that abortion of a social media site. I can't, for a minute, imagine that any Dev on XDA would waste their time taking apart a FB app (which would probably be contrary to XDA's terms and conditions) just to do this.
Bumping your post is not going to get you any help.
I've been a forum mod myself, i know the annoyance i am creating and i know the pain it causes, but believe me i am not proud of it, it is just killing me getting a notification at both places at the same time.
The reason why i'm asking is to look if anyone found a workaround, and i am amazed to see people not being annoyed by this matter.
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I've been a forum mod myself, i know the annoyance i am creating and i know the pain it causes, but believe me i am not proud of it, it is just killing me getting a notification at both places at the same time.
The reason why i'm asking is to look if anyone found a workaround, and i am amazed to see people not being annoyed by this matter.
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That excuse is up there along with;-
"I don't want to interrupt you, but ..." - Yes you do or you wouldn't be doing it.
There is no workaround other than disabling notifications on FB. They probably don't want to allow people to turn them off as most people seem to thrive on getting notifications for FB as it makes them feel all important, so getting the notification twice makes them feel twice as important.
I would've found three better methods explaining your workarounds lets say in a more humane way. Remember, people ask questions to get answers, especially on a general discussion board.
Thanks anyway.
The number of ads and scripts (flash, java, whatever) on each page makes my browser slow to an absolute crawl. They can take upwards of 30 seconds to complete (or give the "a script on this page is taking too long to load" message. Until that point, I can't scroll or do anything in any of my browser windows. And this happens on every page load. Every page of every thread on the site.
Do you think having 3 animated Comcast ads viewable on the page at the same time makes me more likely to click on it? The developer of this site might want to take a step back and evaluate how the ads are impacting the use of the site.
I know this is probably better or worse depending on which browser you're using, and how old your computer is, but it seems ridiculous. I don't know of another site on the web that has this significant of an impact on my browsing performance.
Just food for thought... All this is really encouraging people to do is run adblock and never see or click on any of the ads on the site. With adblock enabled, the site behaves like it should, and like all of the other sites on the web.
Dave
Have you tried different theme versions ? The xda 2013 beta ran slow for me as well, but changing it back to xda 2010 sped the site up by a significant amount. May of been placebo and me resisting change but either way it worked for me.
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using Tapatalk 2
Use Firefox and download adblock plus problem solved. What's the issue?
As far as ads go, hate em or love 'em, people gotta' make money from them.
Just like the post above use Firefox with ad block plus and element hiding helper for abp.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app
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Use Firefox and download adblock plus problem solved. What's the issue?
As far as ads go, hate em or love 'em, people gotta' make money from them.
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Just like the post above use Firefox with ad block plus and element hiding helper for abp.
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And use No - Script, it'll be a lot faster.
Sent from my GT-i9001 using xda premium
I'm aware of these options as solutions. However, should they really be necessary? As a web developer myself, I leave ads enabled in my browser because I have been compensated for people clicking on my ads in the past. But requiring your users to enable an ad/script blocker in order to be able to effectively use the site is pretty ridiculous. I guess I'm just venting about the sheer number of ads/scripts on this site in hopes that something may be done about it to make it more usable for those people that don't block ads.
I view this site on several computers (several OSes/browsers) almost every day. It is completely usable on some of them, and unbearable on others. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there (perhaps the people responsible for the site) that think the site performs fine. It does on some platforms. However, I want them to be aware that it doesn't perform well on all platforms. After posting this thread, I timed the point where I clicked a link, and when I was able to scroll the page (because the browser was hung). It took 17 seconds between the time the page started to load, and the time the browser came back to life. All but about 2 seconds of that was waiting for ads/scripts to settle down. The content of the page loaded almost immediately, but the flash ads hung the browser completely for almost 15 seconds.
I guess what is most concerning is how much worse it seems to have gotten within the last month or so. I'm not sure why that is (different ads, more ads?), but it has gotten noticeably worse.
Dave
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I'm aware of these options as solutions. However, should they really be necessary? As a web developer myself, I leave ads enabled in my browser because I have been compensated for people clicking on my ads in the past. But requiring your users to enable an ad/script blocker in order to be able to effectively use the site is pretty ridiculous. I guess I'm just venting about the sheer number of ads/scripts on this site in hopes that something may be done about it to make it more usable for those people that don't block ads.
I view this site on several computers (several OSes/browsers) almost every day. It is completely usable on some of them, and unbearable on others. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there (perhaps the people responsible for the site) that think the site performs fine. It does on some platforms. However, I want them to be aware that it doesn't perform well on all platforms. After posting this thread, I timed the point where I clicked a link, and when I was able to scroll the page (because the browser was hung). It took 17 seconds between the time the page started to load, and the time the browser came back to life. All but about 2 seconds of that was waiting for ads/scripts to settle down. The content of the page loaded almost immediately, but the flash ads hung the browser completely for almost 15 seconds.
I guess what is most concerning is how much worse it seems to have gotten within the last month or so. I'm not sure why that is (different ads, more ads?), but it has gotten noticeably worse.
Dave
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There is a thread for this issue: Intrusive ads? Post here!
Whenever I browse to these forums on my mobile (Nexus 5 with Chrome), I almost always get a stupid alert box popup saying something like my phone has a virus, or my app store is outdated.
Earlier today, I got the app store outdated one, and then it actually redirected me to a completely different page! The dialog kept on coming back up onto the screen when I dismissed it.
Please get rid of these spam ads! I don't understand why you have them on the site!
Liam
P.S I was unsure as to where to post this...
I also get these really annoying redirects on my Galaxy S4 saying my web browser is too slow and keep having to go back and try again. I once couldn't even access the forums because it kept redirecting. It's really annoying.
I do agree that any pop-up ads are annoying. Here's one that I got. http://puu.sh/77Ixg.png
Please post your information/issues in this thread:
Intrusive ads? Post here!
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