AddThis Plug-in

Ever since I installed this plug-in,

– which plugin?
– where did you download it from?

– https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Include_as_Much_Information_as_Possible

AddThis Share Button, installed from WordPress.

For questions regarding this plugin, I recommend asking in its dedicated support sub-forum. There you will be more likely to find a good answer from its developers/users at:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/addthis

Hey Digbydigz.

I took a quick look at your site over the weekend and saw what you described with our mobile toolbar. I noticed this morning that you’ve changed over to AddToAny, but I’m seeing the same problem with them, too.

The first time I go to your site and click on anything (sharing button, link, text), I’m getting a new window that takes me to another site. I can reproduce this over and over again using a new incognito window with Chrome. But it’s smart, it won’t do it to me twice. Each time I want to reproduce it, I have to open a brand new incognito window.

Investigating it, it looks like it’s Sweet Captcha. This script on your page:

https://www.sweetcaptcha.com/api/v2/apps/csrf/40883?ver=3.1.0

Is adding this script to your page:

https://clktag.com/adServe/banners?tid=SWTMPOP&tagid=2

This clktag scrip is listening for a mouse down even (when someone clicks down on their mouse) to intercept and open a new webpage.

Here’s some people complaining about Sweet Captcha for doing this:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/sweetcapcha-hacked-and-causing-malicious-popups

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2933812/sweetcaptcha-users-complain-of-advertising-popups.html