I have to think I’m not the only one to experience this, and it makes the mobile site unusable - the “This forum has an app for Android. Click OK to learn more about Tapatalk” nag screen pops up literally.every.single.click.
Click on a sub-forum? Pop up. Click on one of the threads? Pop up. Click back to get back to the thread list? Pop up. Click into a new thread? Pop up. It never stops!
I can replicate this on my android phone and my ios phone, and it is like having your face slapped with an ice-cold fish on every click.
This is my favorite site on the internet, but it is unusable through mobile because of this. Normally this isn’t as much a concern because I primarily use my laptop, but lately I’ve been traveling and browsing more through phone, and I can’t access my favorite site because of it.
Please, I implore, I pray to you: mods, site admins, benevolent hamsters spinning in their server-powering wheels, whoever can help change this behavior - make the madness stop!
As mobile usage increases across the world, it’s got to be important at some point to have a usable mobile site available, and Tapatalk is doing you WAY more harm than good.
Do you stay logged in? Do you check “Remember Me” when you log in? You should only be seeing it if you’re logged out. I’ve been browsing this site on mobile for years and I’ve never had that problem. Maybe if you clear your cookies.
You should only get this popup once. There’s a cookie that gets set on your device that lets the SDMB know that you’ve had the popup, and as long as the cookie is set you shouldn’t get the popup again. I think the cookie is set to expire after a few months, so at that time you might see the popup again. You definitely shouldn’t see it repeatedly like you are seeing it now.
Since you are getting the popup over and over again, that says that you’ve got some sort of cookie problem.
cochrane’s suggestion of clearing your cookies is probably a good place to start. Also, check for any settings in your android or browser that would prevent the cookie from getting set.
There seems to be some sort of bug in iOS related to cookies. We’ve definitely seen the problem on more than one iOS device. One user got out of it by trying to enter an exception for the script that checks for the cookie and displays the ad, and accidentally ended up blocking the entire SDMB. He then removed the exception, which should have just put him right back where he started, but somehow that fixed the problem. Doing somethign like that might fix your iOS device.
This is the first android case of this that I have heard about. Androids generally don’t have a problem with the popup and its cookie.