# SD Home Page blocked by browsers **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 10, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-home-page-blocked-by-browsers/806303 "2018-01-10T09:49:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-home-page-blocked-by-browsers/806303/1 "2018-01-10T09:49:10Z")
Just discovered that the Straight Dope home page ([https://www.straightdope.com](https://www.straightdope.com)) is being blocked by all of my browsers (IE, Edge, Chrome). Am getting a “site not secure” error. Was able to get to the boards to report this via [https://boards.straightdope.com](https://boards.straightdope.com). ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-home-page-blocked-by-browsers/806303/2 "2018-01-10T09:55:37Z")
Huh. Same here, with Edge at least. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-home-page-blocked-by-browsers/806303/3 "2018-01-10T13:49:03Z")
No problem using Safari to get to the main page. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-home-page-blocked-by-browsers/806303/4 "2018-01-10T13:57:51Z")
Seems to be working now, not sure what the issue was. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-home-page-blocked-by-browsers/806303/5 "2018-01-10T14:33:15Z")
I just checked and Firefox won’t open it. The link goes to a [redirect.vigilink.com](http://redirect.vigilink.com) address that never loads, and I get a warning box from Mozilla’s NoScript that says “NoScript detected a potential Cross-Site Scripting attack”. I did not give permission to allow the script(not taking chances today), so I don’t know if the SD main page would then load. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-home-page-blocked-by-browsers/806303/6 "2018-01-10T14:50:10Z")
Only thing that looks different to me is all the ads. Pup up, etc. Way too many now. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-home-page-blocked-by-browsers/806303/7 "2018-01-10T14:59:06Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Only thing that looks different to me is all the ads. Pup up, etc. Ah yes, the ones that pop up and bark at you until you open them. Really annoying! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-home-page-blocked-by-browsers/806303/8 "2018-01-11T01:29:35Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Only thing that looks different to me is all the ads. Pup up, etc. Way too many now. I use an adblocker (and Firefox). There’s a lot more blank space than I recall, but I accessed it just fine. So, the problem is probably the ads.