Annoying Pop Ups

[Rockrose]

Are back again

www.loompasplace.com/project.php?b=&action=viewlppg&s1=33dae65572107fdcb7ec55c1e79b5f22

[Mamyalynne]

The links on the thread I added have been disabled to prevent them being clicked.

Links here don't need to be clickable - as you'll have seen folk are determined to open them and see what they are about.

[naomi24]

I’m not sure you should be giving advice on this nor sure that anyone should be taking that advice. I can only assume you know more about it than me then .... but nevertheless I’ll leave it to whoever you say disabled those links to mess around with any I post. I would hate to make the Ed’s task more awkward. These things are a nightmare for people using mobile phones.

[Mamyalynne]

I can see that they must be infuriating.

[MargoTester]

I'm getting them all the time on my iPad too Naomi

[naomi24]

A pain in the proverbial Margo!

[naomi24]

Margo, try to post the links here. The Ed is pretty efficient at stopping them.

[MargoTester]

Absolutely as I have to restart AB each time - 6 times today so far!

[MargoTester]

Not too clever at that Naomi, mine keeps telling me I've won an iPhone

[naomi24]

Margo, I know. Quite often the pop ups block the AnswerBank screen before I get a chance to post the links here - and there's no going back. It's just start again, log in to AnswerBank, and hope for the best.

[Rockrose]

If you’re daft enough to click on the links then pffft

[MargoTester]

Are you talking to me RR? I don't click on them just get rid of them and the have to restart AB

[Baldric]

I'm surprised the OPer posted a live link tbh.

[Rockrose]

No I wasn’t talking to you at all more the comments about people clicking on them.
Baldric in full sniper mode again I see!!

[naomi24]

Baldric, we're doing as the editor has asked us.

[Baldric]

Not at all RR, first time I'd looked at the thread and that was my immediate reaction.

[Baldric]

Naomi,
We are obviously reading
// We don't want the links to be clickable, that would be doing the spammers' work for them! //
Differently.

[naomi24]

Baldric, undoubtedly... which I why I think if the Ed wanted us to tamper with the links she'd have made it clear especially to people like me who wouldn't have a clue how to make a link unclickable whilst at the same time leaving it intact enough to be dealt with. Wisest to leave the Editor to give the 'sufferers' advice I feel - and wisest for the 'sufferers' to heed only the advice of the Editor.

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/

^ Clickable

collinsdictionary.com

^ Not

[naomi24]

Yes.

[Baldric]

FYI
Disabling is easy, insert a space after https or put a dot immediately
before https ( .https ) any techie worth their keep would spot those
at first glance and reinstate it to deal with the post.