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pwhodges:
The change to the forum URL that affected Tapatalk (and some other systems, actually) was made on Wednesday evening (my time), and the change to the Tapatalk server to fix it on Thursday evening (my time). Anything previous to that was another issue which I know nothing of, and which was probably local.
The change has actually affected a number of things, and I'm working through them slowly. I've fixed the YouTube embedding, which was the most visible problem. The same cause has killed SoundCloud embedding; I have the fix for that too, but I have a technical problem delaying the installation of it. I also have some image and avatar issues still to work through, but may not be able to deal with them until after the weekend.
The URL change (to https only) happened purely coincidentally on the same day as the announcement of the Poodle exploit; as a result the servers (plural because now CloudFlare) have had SSL3 disabled, which is fine because it's an old and deprecated protocol; but this has caused issues in some systems in which the use of SSL rather than TLS is still default. For instance, I cannot now access the forum using Chrome in Windows XP, even though Chrome is OK elsewhere, and other browsers are OK in XP. Some of these defaults will get patched in the near future, but those related to older software may not.
Masterpiece:
Anybody know who @cyclingtiger is on twitter? They've contacted me reg the fora issue and I couldn't connect the username to the twitterhandle
Pilchard123:
EDIT: I found who it is, but I shall PM with my findings rather than leave them floating around here.
Mlle Germain:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 06 Oct 2014, 20:03 ---So, I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this, and if it's not could the mods figure out where is and move it there?
In the past few days, I've been having problems where I'm reading through the archive, and when I hit "next comic" it goes to the next comment for less than a second - and then I get hijacked by something telling me to update my video player because I'm using Google Chrome and my video player might be out of date. Obvious scam, but extremely annoying. I've only had it happen on QC, which is why I think it's a site problem and not a problem with my computer.
Anyone else seeing this?
--- End quote ---
I also got something that told me to update my Adobe Flash Player when I was browsing the archive right now. My antivirus programme didn't pick anything up, but after reading this on the forums, it seemed fishy.
Edit: I mean the QC archive page forwarded me to some other page saying I should update Flash Player, just like Penquin47 described.
pwhodges:
Dodgy ads. Email Jeph with details and a clear subject; he has the ability to have them removed. How likely he is to see the email and react to it I cannot say, but it has been known.
If it continues to be a nuisance, the technical answer is to install an ad blocker (Ad Block or Ad Guard, for instance), and salve your conscience over Jeph's income from ad shows by contributing some other way.
Adware is currently the most prevalent form of malware, in my experience. If you Google for Chrome downloads, the top hit is for Google's own download. However, above it, in the same layout, and with only a small orange "Ad" tag, is a malware-infested fake download. Yes, "do no evil" Google places an ad for an infected version of its own software above its own proper link! Videolan VLC is another item that is afflicted this way.
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