I see no progress has been made on this bug. 
I still have not seen that popup, cleared history, cleared cookies, signed in or signed out.
Google Chrome with all settings at default.
I wish I could experience the problem to help you. Win 7, 10, chromebook, Andeoid, Chrome, firefox browsersI do not see anything like what you experience. Are you using IE, or Edge?
Safari (mac). Firefox does the same.
- With Chrome [Version 65.0.3325.181 (Official Build) (64-bit)] it will popup once after clearing cookies and hitting cartalk.com. After that it stops popping up until the cookie expires.
- With Firefox [59.0.2 (64-bit)] it pops up every time a cartalk.com page is loaded.
- There is a 10 second delay before the popup so wait for it.
- Windows 10.0.16299
The same error causing the popup is happening on all browsers, but each browser handles it differently.
Here’s the error from Chrome:
Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
at _e (nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:1)
at nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:1
at e (nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:2)
at e.onDOMLoad (nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:2)
at _e (nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:1)
at nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:1
at e (nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:2)
at e.onDOMLoad (nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:2)
at _e (nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:1)
at nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:1
_e @ nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:1
(anonymous) @ nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:1
e @ nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:2
onDOMLoad @ nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:2
load (async)
addEvent @ nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:2
ie @ nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:1
onDOMLoad @ nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:2
(anonymous) @ nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:2
(anonymous) @ nmedianet.js?cid=8CU744DWM&crid=535816155&size=316x150:2
Yup.
But I’ve gotten so used to aggravating popups in the internet overall that I’ve become oblivious to it. Just please don’t start adding streaming video popup advertisements. The clog the bandwidth and make things very slow and frustrating.
What’s frustrating here, is that for every page you visit, you have to wait a long time for the popup to appear, as all the links are dead until it does.
@cdaquila : any work being done to fix this?
Good morning. I did pass on the concern when we last discussed it. Since we all work in geographically disparate places, and on a part-time basis, I don’t know the status. I will ask.
thanks! If you could, pass on the error message above by hybrid314, it indicates that this is a real bug, not just a bad programming decision.
If you’re getting popups on a Microsoft Windows machine, I suggest you download and run Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool.
I finally relented and signed up to receive the ‘lousy newsletter’ (I divert it to spam.) but still have to wait 10 seconds every login to get the popup dialogue box again.
I’m still hoping this will be fixed.
I stay from the cartalk web site for now, just an occasional look to see if it has been fixed.
Dunno, when I was a webmaster for a billion dollar company, bugs were fixed (by me) in a day’s time. Why is it taking so long?
I guess I have.a thing about major bugs.
I guess I could sign up and then setup an email rule to divert it to trash, but that seems an extreme.
Warning: signing up for the newsletter won’t stop the popups! I gave them my email, so now I get the newsletter and still get the popups on every cartalk.com page, even when I’m signed in!
Firefox 60.0.1 (64-bit) macOS 10.13.4
Firefox 60.0.1 (64-bit) Windows 10 1803 17134.48
@cdaquila: any progress on this 2 month old bug?
Do you realize it makes the site almost unusable and probably is driving away tons of viewers?
@BillRussell I think they have fixed the javascript error that I previously posted. I no longer see it in the javascript console on cartalk.com. So that’s progress. Apparently that error was unrelated to the popup issue.
I also just found a fix (or at least a work-around) for the popup annoyance on Firefox 60:
Under Options | Privacy & Security | Tracking Protection, set it to Only in private windows.
Then set Send websites a “Do Not Track” signal that you don’t want to be tracked to Only when using Tracking Protection
Apparently the Do Not Track signal causes cartalk.com to keep showing the newsletter popup. As soon as I enable the Do Not Track signal, the popups come back. As soon as I disable it, they go away. I would still call this a bug, but at least there’s a work-around.
Note: the popup will still happen when the cartalk cookie expires or is deleted, but it will be a lot less frequent now.
@BillRussell, I hear your impatience but please know there has been movement.
According to our developer, we’re having the vendor look into the JavaScript errors hybrid314 reported. Those errors might be affecting her/his ability to dismiss the popup. He does recommend users check browser cookie / do not track settings, particularly with Internet Explorer or Firefox.
His working hypothesis is that the problem most people are describing in that thread stems from having one’s browser set to block cookies or “do not track”. Such settings would cause problems on many other sites, but it might be more noticeable on Car Talk because the dismissal of the popup really depends on cookies being set in the browser. Otherwise, a simple “refresh” or navigation to other pages would cause the popup to reappear.
Maybe stated previously, win 10 chrome and chromebook, I get nothing. No adblock or anything.
No, I allow cookies. I wish I could block them, but too many sites fail under that setup.