PC problem

[Lee@emctiles]

for some reason these skimlinks come up whenever i hit a link on this forum, anyone know why?

its bizarre, this is the message i get....

If you’ve landed on this page, you may be wondering exactly what it’s all about.

We’re Skimlinks — a service that helps online publishers earn money.

When links in publishers’ content lead their users to click through and buy from an online retailer, we make sure they’re rewarded!

We aim to make our service seamless and unobtrusive, so your user experience should not be interrupted. If you’ve landed on this page and didn’t mean to, unfortunately you’ve most likely clicked on a broken link along the way. Links can be broken if they are badly formatted; if you spot any again, we’d advise reporting these to the site owner.

- Team Skimlinks

 

[Dan]

for some reason these skimlinks come up whenever i hit a link on this forum, anyone know why?

its bizarre, this is the message i get....

If you’ve landed on this page, you may be wondering exactly what it’s all about.

We’re Skimlinks — a service that helps online publishers earn money.

When links in publishers’ content lead their users to click through and buy from an online retailer, we make sure they’re rewarded!

We aim to make our service seamless and unobtrusive, so your user experience should not be interrupted. If you’ve landed on this page and didn’t mean to, unfortunately you’ve most likely clicked on a broken link along the way. Links can be broken if they are badly formatted; if you spot any again, we’d advise reporting these to the site owner.

- Team Skimlinks

It's an affiliate scheme, we get paid a small commission on links to products on ebay etc via it. But if it's loading that page, skimlinks is having issues.

Was there a particular link or links that you clicked to see the message? I'll take a look. I can disable it with a click if it's down for some reason.

 

[Lee@emctiles]

It's an affiliate scheme, we get paid a small commission on links to products on ebay etc via it. But if it's loading that page, skimlinks is having issues.

Was there a particular link or links that you clicked to see the message? I'll take a look. I can disable it with a click if it's down for some reason.

Hi Dan, tbh it was one of the sponsors own links, but it just sent my pc to that skimlinks screen......maybe i should attempt another try and a different pc?

 

[Dan]

Is it still doing it? I can't replicate it. Any particular one?

 

[Lee@emctiles]

@Dan ignore me dan, ive clearly got something wrong with my pc, tried 2 more pcs and the skimlinks dont appear....

now got to work out what the hell is wrong with my pc......

 

[Dan]

It could have been a glitch mate. Either with our forum or skimlinks.

Is it still doing it on the one PC?

 

[Lee@emctiles]

yes @Dan

 

[Dan]

When you click on any external link? Or a particular one?

Just to test - www.electriciansforums.co.uk <- click that maybe? See if that does it.

On the PC that it's doing it on, try testing a different web browser. If it is just the one web browser on that one PC doing it, it might be Javascript-related. Let me know what browser it is and I'll find the settings for you.

 

[Lee@emctiles]

same pc, yep that link didnt work either!

im using chrome dan.

same things happen in firefox......

however microsoft edge worked......

weird

 

[Dan]

Chrome uses a version if Firefox as its core code, its open source software which Google like as it free lol

So not so strange.

Leave it with me I have a ticket open with skimlinks. But I'm just having a quick pint and will check my own chrome settings when I get back.

 

[Dan]

In the meantime I've disabled it, should find its fine now but we can troubleshoot when we are both online.

 

[Dan]

I've turned skimlinks off for now