Thursday, October 7, 2010

Do you get an RSS pop-up on RMM.com?

(cross post from TSARM)
Has anyone else had this pop up on their screen?



EVERY SINGLE TIME i click on anything on that site the page hangs for a second and then i get that little pop-up asking to subscribe to the RSS feed. I don’t want to subscribe but it asks EVERY SINGLE TIME so i finally clicked Yes and intended to delete the feed at the end of my browsing session.

The problem is, even if you click Yes it still pops up EVERY SINGLE TIME you click on anything on the page. And if you keep clicking Yes to accept the RSS feed it adds a new feed folder to your computer! If I click on 20 things while I am browsing I end up with 20 RSS feed folders!!!

I emailed the web team and got the standard issue reply that you get from every Ricky Martin webmaster since the beginning, “Sorry darling, it’s not us, it’s you.” They told me they don’t have any code that asks to subscribe to their RSS. They said I must have a worm on my computer from somewhere else. In the old days they would tell you your computer is having trouble loading the page and you have to clear your cache and cookies. Not they say you have a worm. Same song, only the lyrics have changed.

I of course don’t believe them. I think they are full of shit. RMM.com is the ONLY site that i have issue with. I don’t have this problem anywhere else.

Edit to add:
I’m not sure if the code monkeys are working furiously behind the scenes to solve my problem. But just in case they aren’t I am attempting to problem solve on my own.
I have tried disabling numerous things in my browser’s options tabs. No luck. Tried blocking pop ups. Turned off Java. Turned off everything I could think of that might help.
That damn bookmark is still popping up.

I did try the page in Chrome 6.0.xxx for Windows and it was a SUCCESS!!

Yay!!!

So it appears the glitch is something to do with Firefox. I’ll keep trying to fix it. I hope i can figure this out. If not I just may go completely bat-shit crazy, but not before November 6th, please ;)

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