Piercing shrieking hijack from only one website

[reinbeau]

Not every time, but every few times, if I go to True Pundit (https://truepundit.com/), I get two variations on some kind of hijack. One is Walmart spam, easily dismissed by hitting back. The other is a high pitched piercing shriek with a virus warning that will not stop without me going into the program manager (lower left corner of the Note 8) and stopping all programs. I can't figure out if there's something on my phone or if it's just the website. Only that site. I do not download strange apps, games, or other popular faddish type stuff and only from Google Play. I've gone through my apps and can't find anything that doesn't look like it belongs. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Oh, and I've tried to contact the website, they are totally unresponsive.

 

[Aquila]

Stop visiting that site? A quick glance at it and 5 minutes of research about it show that it is a site dedicated to misinformation, conspiracy theory and pseudoscience. They frequently allow anonymously authored articles without any fact checking and have been routinely flagged for reposting articles from Daily Caller, which is the Tucker Calrson founded also known for making false claims.

Up to you, but I personally would try to avoid this site for three reasons, in order of most important to least: 1) Their job is to lie to people 2) They serve ads, have cookies and trackers, etc, on their website without any way to manage privacy settings and without any privacy policy posted, so there's no way to understand who exactly they are sharing what exact information with and 3) their site is badly coded, as evidenced by your browser being highjacked.

 

[reinbeau]

Thank you but I wasn't asking for site advice. They are none of what you're saying, you and I are obviously on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Leave politics out of it. I'm looking for solutions, not lectures.

 

[recDNA]

Free Adblocker Browser may help but it is a battery hog. It blocks most ads.

 

[Almeuit]

Thank you but I wasn't asking for site advice. They are none of what you're saying, you and I are obviously on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Leave politics out of it. I'm looking for solutions, not lectures.

Honestly it was sound advice from what you described. You have a hijacking issue and you contacted the site owners who seem to not care. That means the site has advertisers who are initiating the "hijack" you're seeing. Not going would be one solution.

Another solution is to do what @recDNA said -- an ad blocker.

So for my opinion .. one of those two options are your only options to stop the hijacking from said website.

 

[reinbeau]

Thank you, Almeuit, you are not the issue and have the answer without letting politics cloud it. I won't go to the site while mobile.