Hot.com pop-ups

[pittlicker]

Do we really have to put up with the constant pop-ups from this site every time we switch to different areas. Tired of closing them out every fucking time.

[jdr3130]

Ironically, when I tried to read this thread, I got a hot.com popup.

[nomad1000!]

Me too, it’s so frickin annoying

[onawbtngr546]

Easy enough to block hot.com at the DNS level if you know how to manage your own network.


Here's a regex which will block any variant of hot.com


(\.|^)hot\.com$

[mulletman66]

i have a pop up blocker enabled and its worked wonderfully until about 4 days ago. now every time i click on something i get a message that says please allow pop ups for this site.

[PeterFunt]

Adblocker will stop them.

[bruno55]

Originally Posted by PeterFunt

Adblocker will stop them.

I tried adblocker it worked for one day. Now it's not blocking it.

[simon469]

too bad the ignore list wont work on it.

[moncho]

My adblocker on firefox seems to work, I get one popup when I first go to the Pgh page and that's it.

[mulletman66]

Ad Blocker is killing it on my computer using chrome but i am still getting that annoying message every time i click on something telling me to allow pop ups. not only do i not want pop ups i cant afford to have that popping up and someone seeing it.

[onawbtngr546]

For those of you who don't manage their own firewall, you can block hot.com at the DNS level by editing your hosts file on windows
https://www.howtogeek.com/784196/how...dows-10-or-11/


C:\Windows\system32\drivers\et c


Open the 'hosts' file in notepad


Add a line at the bottom that says

127.0.0.1 hot.com

Whenever the popup opens, it'll try to access a website on your computer, which doesn't exist, so it'll 404

[laserface]

It's even worse on mobile... Even if I allow pop-ups, whenever I try to click on some type of internal site navigation (such as going into my PMs, or the back arrow to navigate back to the previous forum), I *only* get the hot.com pop-up, I don't actually get where I am trying to go.

Can we please turn this off?

[TwoHandGirth]

Try Brave Browser and under the security section set everything to "aggressive" or "strict" and it will eliminate all of the pop-ups except the initial one you get at login.

[onawbtngr546]

So I think I can see what is happening. If I'm wrong, then the webmaster has opted the popup to open all the time, but


If you visit the site, then click on a sub-forum (sandbox, encounter reports, etc), you get a popup
If you hit BACK, and click on another sub-forum, you get a popup
But if you navigate back (by clicking Pittsburgh), then click on a sub-forum, you don't get a popup


But literally, just right now, I got one when I opened this thread...


None the less, I have hot.com blacklisted at the DNS level, so it doesn't go anywhere

[Charley3]

It wouldn’t bother me if hot.com showed real providers in my area. I’ve yet to see an ad with 412 or 724 area code.