# Issue with Board and iOS Safari **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 5, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/issue-with-board-and-ios-safari/805930 "2018-01-05T17:00:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/issue-with-board-and-ios-safari/805930/1 "2018-01-05T17:00:10Z")
It appears to go to the board (after the obligatory advertising tab) and then go to some facebook-walmart thing that you can’t get out of. A person first complained about this on the Facebook group and I made some suggestions, but in working with it on my own iPhone, I found that none of the resets, reboots or anything make a difference. Gets to the board, goes to that FB-WM page and you can’t get out of it except by closing the tab. Which means you can’t get to the board. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/issue-with-board-and-ios-safari/805930/2 "2018-01-05T19:25:43Z")
Thanks for letting us know. I’ve reported the bad ad to our admins. ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/issue-with-board-and-ios-safari/805930/3 "2018-01-05T19:55:40Z")
Our digital ad guy is working on getting this ad blocked. Our apologies for the inconvenience. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/issue-with-board-and-ios-safari/805930/4 "2018-01-05T23:53:19Z")
If you leave your settings so that you are always logged in, and do not start on the column page, does this still happen? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/issue-with-board-and-ios-safari/805930/5 "2018-01-06T00:23:25Z")
I dunno. I don’t use my own phone for this board and I always leave my mobile device browsers in private mode so that it doesn’t retain information. Other users with iPhones will have to answer that question. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/issue-with-board-and-ios-safari/805930/6 "2018-01-06T01:58:31Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > If you leave your settings so that you are always logged in, and do not start on the column page, does this still happen? You’re a member, so you shouldn’t receive ads from the message board. And you’re avoiding the main Straight Dope page, which isn’t a part of the message board and therefore has no clue whether you’re a member and always serves up an ad. I would think that would cover it, so you shouldn’t get the offending ad. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/issue-with-board-and-ios-safari/805930/7 "2018-01-06T02:45:06Z")
Right. I was trying to explore if either of those levers would get around this. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/issue-with-board-and-ios-safari/805930/8 "2018-01-06T12:57:04Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Right. I was trying to explore if either of those levers would get around this. I’m using safari now, but I’m a member and stay logged in. All is well.