Firefox pop up warning on various wordpress blogs
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Several times today, while looking at blogs I’m subscribed to and a couple I’m not, all on WordPress.com (and at least one with a domain name and redirect on wordpress.com not wordpress.org) I’ve seen had a Firefox blocked pop up message at the top of the window. I use ad-blocker, and am using the current version of Firefox on an Windows XP computer (and am not willing to try another browser as I share the internet connection with someone else) so I don’t know what the ads are exactly, but I’m concerned about it. I have seen the warnings while logged in and have cleared my cache and seen them while logged out. I logged back in again and the warning’s still there. As it’s only on WordPress.com blogs I wonder if it might be your own ads? However, I’d think that I woudn’t see them while logged in.
If they aren’t your own ads, then why is this happening with several different blogs and why suddenly? It’s just today, these same blogs were okay yesterday.
One thing that I did do that made a difference on one of the blogs, was the warning appeared when I clicked the link in my email from WordPress to the posts in question, and when I clicked on links I’d bookmarked. But when I went direct to the blog posts – the warning didn’t appear.
If anyone has any ideas, that’d be great! Thanks in advance
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I came to the forums today to ask for help on a very similar issue. I’m getting a Firefox blocked pop-up message when I am looking at certain posts on my own blog. I have very little experience but hopefully this will help someone answer this question. When I go to the preferences on this block message it is indicating that the pop up address says something about a public.api.
I’m currently running a scan on my computer for malware and viruses but I want this pop up removed from my blog. I’ll be following this topic to see if anyone can help. -
@absurdoldbird
I now see that Firefox pop-up block message on some WordPress.com sites like you described. -
@agoodwardrobe
As we cannot install any pop-ups on free hosted WordPress.com blogs I suspect absurdoldbird maybe correct. The AdBlocker could be blocking the advertising that WordPress.com runs on our free hosted blogs that do not have the No-Ads upgrade.WordPress.com has been displaying advertising on our blogs since 2006. As they do not display to us when we are signed in you may not have noticed them previously. The ToS section 9 that we agree to in order to get a blog states this, the features page states this, and so does the advertising entry in the support documentation but many bloggers do not read these. The bottom line is that if you do not wish to have advertising displaying on your blog you will have to purchase an annually renewable No-Ads upgrade.
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I’m seeing this exact same thing on two sticky pages of my blog, but using IE9. I’m getting a “IE9 automatically blocked a pop up…” If I temporarily allow pop ups, a reduced size window appears with a URL http://mywebsitesdotnet.wordpress.com/public.api/connect/? … (can’t catch the rest)
So it’s not unique to Firefox, and not something I added, either. Only started this morning as far as I can tell. I paid the extra bucks to have my own website name (i.e., an address ending in .net) and no ads.
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@timethief – Yes, I’m aware of the advertisements on my wordpress.com blog and am fine with that. I don’t believe that these pop ups are a result of theses ads. Ff these ads were triggering the pop up messages that I’m receiving, I wouldn’t expect this pop up message to appear when I’m logged in. Since picnicjohn is also experiencing this and has paid for no ads, I’m not convinved that the wordpress.com advertisements are behind these pop ups.
@picnicjohn – That’s exactly the url I’m seeing. the remainder is: action=request -
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@agoodwardrobe
I have flagged this thread for Staff attention as they may be able to enlighten us or at least help us determine what’s hoing on and why it’s happening. -
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Well… hopefully Staff will see this soon as I just got it on one of your pages, TT!! So, if you’ve got the no-ads upgrade then either something very weird is going on (sunspots?) or WP are make a change for a change…
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@absurdoldbird
I have the No-Ads upgrade on the blog linked to my username. Is that the one you experienced this on or not? -
By the way, I’ve tracked it down to one thing: for me, anyway, it only happens when I get to a blog post via a link, not if I put the URL in a fresh window or tab.
Could WP be working on link-throughs or something?
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re: sunspots
As a new version of WordPress is expected soon and as we are on continous roll-out here at WordPress.com and experience upgrades a month prior to the new version becoming available for WordPress.org installs, it’s possible that Staff are very busy with the upgrading so we may not see them respond quickly. -
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Wow, I just went back and checked on the only two pages in question and the “pop up blocked” alert no longer appears. Doesn’t matter whether I’m logged in or not, and I didn’t change any IE or blog settings. Looks like the staff jumped right on it! Great work! Thanks!
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@absurdoldbird
I have the No-Ads upgrade on the blog linked to my username. Is that the one you experienced this on or not?
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