Okay, this is very hard to explain, but I will try.
With the Newspaper theme enabled, when someone accessed my site from Chrome on a desktop they would be brought to a bogus “bot checker” and a popup would appear asking the user to allow or block. If you try to do either, eventually you end up on adult websites.
I contacted my host and they saw the same issue, so they ran a malware scan that turned up nothing.
So then I thought it might be a plugin, so I turned off all my plugins, including all the TagDiv plugins. Same issue occurred.
Finally, I changed theme entirely, going with the generic 2023 theme. Obviously with all the TagDiv coding, the site looked broken, but the links all still worked. I could NOT replicate the issue when the Newspaper theme was not active.
My website is GoingFor2.com. I will put the Newspaper theme back on so that you can see the issue. It seems to only happen in chrome on desktop. My main browser is Safari, and it seems to work fine on Safari.
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It could be from any active extension in your browser. Please reset your browser and try again.
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It doesn’t just happen to me though. Readers are the ones that pointed it out to me at first. Some were getting security warnings from their browsers that my site wasn’t safe. Others were getting the “bot check”.
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Please check this thread: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/update-required-newspaper-12-1-1-brings-extra-security/
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Okay. I tried a few of those options already, I’ll try the other ones and let you know what happens. Thank you.
