# Why is the Tapatalk forced pop-up not treated with the same ferocity as other advertising malware? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 4, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-tapatalk-forced-pop-up-not-treated-with-the-same-ferocity-as-other-advertising-malware/703667 "2014-11-04T20:38:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-tapatalk-forced-pop-up-not-treated-with-the-same-ferocity-as-other-advertising-malware/703667/1 "2014-11-04T20:38:42Z")
See > **[Tapatalk Ad Popup](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=710510)** > > When using my iPad, I’ve been getting serial popups flogging Tapatalk for $4.99 US, with a link in the popup to the Apple store. Every time I tap a link. It doesn’t take “Cancel” for an answer. It must use JavaScript. I use iCab’s iPad browser... > **[Why the unceasing Tapatalk notices?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=713135)** > > I mostly browse on a iPad,and everytime i open a new thread i get a notice: this forum has an app for iPad! Click OK to learn more about Tapatalk. I’m using Safari with pop-ups turned off. Is this a bug? A feature? Malware? One of which was closed with a redirect. **TubaDiva** : “I’ll ask **xash** ,” and “they told me it only happens once,” and that was that. Obviously, since I’ve OP’d this before, it burns my butt–on all the sites where it rears its head, but more so here because I open SD many times a day and, moreover, because I respect the care and dialogue it has with its community, shown most clearly, perhaps, with its respect to board maintenance and security. And I can actually discuss it here with normal human beings. Rather than resurrect, I OP here with a different base thought. Does the Tapatalk obnoxiousness get special dispensation from Jerry and the Cherubim and Seraphim who protect this Demi-Eden? Why is it not extirpated root and branch like the other malware? 1. Is it that SD hasn’t done so because it has defeated the technical skill of the webmasters? Honestly, if that’s the case, or, if it could be done, that you just don’t have enough budget and manpower to tackle it, that would be interesting to know, and I’d love you just the same. 1. Or do you Just Not Care? I’d still love you, recognizing that in relationships you take the good with the bad. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-tapatalk-forced-pop-up-not-treated-with-the-same-ferocity-as-other-advertising-malware/703667/2 "2014-11-05T02:06:59Z")
Speaking personally, it’s not that I Just Don’t Care, it’s that I don’t have the personal ability to fix this to your satisfaction. I’ll see what else I can get happening upstairs, but I personally am not doing this to you. The Straight Dope is not doing this to you. TAPATALK is doing this to you and we don’t have any control over it. (For those helpful Dopers who have previously written and given me instructions on how to modify that setting on this side of the Tapatalk app, I’ve tried that and it didn’t work/didn’t help. This is an older version of Tapatalk that is not responsive to anything I’ve attempted through the access that I have. I am also not able to upgrade Tapatalk to make it more responsive.) The only real option is having Tapatalk removed from the site. It’s a third party app that no one in management approved in the first place. I figured it was best to leave it because people use it and while having that popup is annoying, it’s better than people not having access to it at all. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-tapatalk-forced-pop-up-not-treated-with-the-same-ferocity-as-other-advertising-malware/703667/3 "2014-11-05T02:25:43Z")
I certainly hope it doesn’t get removed. I know I find it really useful on my phone. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-tapatalk-forced-pop-up-not-treated-with-the-same-ferocity-as-other-advertising-malware/703667/4 "2014-11-05T02:52:34Z")
That’s why we’re in the place we’re in with this right now – as annoying as those popups are – especially to IOS users who don’t even USE Tapatalk – the benefit it provides other users is enough that we moderators ask for your consideration on behalf of your fellow Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-tapatalk-forced-pop-up-not-treated-with-the-same-ferocity-as-other-advertising-malware/703667/5 "2014-11-05T03:02:13Z")
Oh my gaaaaawd please don’t ever get rid of Tapatalk! It’s the best! 🙂 Leo why don’t you use Tapatalk? Seems easier than getting the fix applied. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-tapatalk-forced-pop-up-not-treated-with-the-same-ferocity-as-other-advertising-malware/703667/6 "2014-11-05T04:43:48Z")
So, does logging in, and \*staying \*logged in, not work for you to make the popup go away? Like I said in another thread, I see it sometimes on my Android, but it’s only when I use a browser that doesn’t have the cookie that saves my logged-in status. I assume that same cookie (or maybe another one) saves the fact that you’ve been presented the popup and declined. It seems that it keeps pestering you because it doesn’t know that its already showed you the popup previously. Do you not have cookies enabled, or something? Or, do you never stay logged in? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-tapatalk-forced-pop-up-not-treated-with-the-same-ferocity-as-other-advertising-malware/703667/7 "2014-11-05T14:14:47Z")
I have requested that Tapatalk be looked at and updated if possible, with the hope that in so doing we can better control what Tapatalk sends out to people, especially those who are never going to use the app. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-tapatalk-forced-pop-up-not-treated-with-the-same-ferocity-as-other-advertising-malware/703667/8 "2014-11-06T05:11:45Z")
Yes, PLEASE do not get rid of Tapatalk. ~95% of my time here is through Tapatalk on my phone (the older version of VBulletin, rendered in mobile IE is practically unreadable because the posts are in exTREMEly tiny font (and for some reason, quoted text is REALLY REALLY BIG)). ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-tapatalk-forced-pop-up-not-treated-with-the-same-ferocity-as-other-advertising-malware/703667/9 "2014-11-06T19:41:04Z")
I don’t want tapatalk, I don’t need tapatalk, and I am sick of being nagged about tapatalk every damned time I enter this site. That’s my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-tapatalk-forced-pop-up-not-treated-with-the-same-ferocity-as-other-advertising-malware/703667/10 "2014-11-06T21:19:17Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > I have requested that Tapatalk be looked at and updated if possible, with the hope that in so doing we can better control what Tapatalk sends out to people, especially those who are never going to use the app. Please note that simply updating Tapatalk is _not_ enough, you have to also remove the script call to tapatalkdetect.js in your style sheet. It’s easy to do, especially you guys only have the one style, but it requires admin access. My earlier post on this: > [@Tapatalk nagging on mobile](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapatalk-nagging-on-mobile/698822/7): > > No, this is coming from the SDMB. Earlier versions of Tapatalk automatically inserted a call to a Javascript function in your style sheet that pops up that window. It only gets called when it detects you’re on a mobile device and not logged in, I believe. > > The remedy is to update Tapatalk to the latest version and then remove that old line from the default style (just search in templates for tapatalkdetect.js in the AdminCP). I believe the new version still has some sort of “hey, do you want to use Tapatalk??” message, but I think it’s easier to disable / ignore. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-tapatalk-forced-pop-up-not-treated-with-the-same-ferocity-as-other-advertising-malware/703667/11 "2014-11-07T04:07:02Z")
Thanks, Giraffe. I have advised Jerry.