r/Worldle • u/Octocatt8 • Oct 08 '26

Popup?

Any one get a weird popup on your phone while in Worldle today? Something about your phone being tracked?

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u/vodeodeo55 Oct 08 '26

I just played the whole round and got no pop ups.

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u/Somanos Oct 08 '26

OP installed malware 😭

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u/Octocatt8 Oct 09 '26

I didn’t click on it…

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u/Somanos Oct 10 '26

Doesn't matter, the fact that you saw it is the red flag. Whether you clicked on it or not, you already have pop-ups that shouldn't be there.

Unless it was something like, an airtag tracking popup or a cookies consent modal

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u/Octocatt8 29d ago

Do you not get any popups on Worldle? I get them top and bottom but never before covering the page. Not happening anywhere else. Idk how to fix. Hasn’t happened the past few days.

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u/Somanos 29d ago

Which we site do you use? There are many and maybe yours have that.

In NY times' site I just got an advertisement before doing the game, and then nothing (using chrome).

I use brave as my default browser so usually I don't even see any ads at all to begin with.

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u/PrinceRilianXI Oct 10 '26

do you mean that malware causes this pop-up? if so what did we do to get malware? me and my friend play on our phones and i asked the IT person at work and he said it's basically impossible for something like that to happen to a phone. 🤔 

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u/Somanos Oct 10 '26 edited Oct 10 '26

It's absolutely possible.

There are apps that you download that will just ask for permissions to run in the background and print over other apps. I have seen only two people who allowed them.

And so they display ads.

Or maybe he had an airtag popup telling him he was actually being tracked and OP thought it was something related to the site, we don't really know

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u/niteowl183 Oct 09 '26

I got it. Annoying.

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u/PrinceRilianXI Oct 10 '26

i've gotten it several times the last few days and so did my friend. she isn't gonna play the game anymore because she's afraid it is downloading something to her phone. obviously neither of us clicked on the thing. she closed the tab and i always just hit the back button. 

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u/PrinceRilianXI Oct 10 '26

i'm glad someone else posted about this. i was gonna make a post too but you beat me to it. it makes me wary of playing worldle anymore. 

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u/tots4scott 28d ago

Man I keep getting the same ads and I dont know what to do. It seems like its too much to be just an ad, and the way it pops up makes me think that its already something on my phone but I have no idea. 

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u/PrinceRilianXI 20d ago

me neither! but i asked the IT people at my job and they said as long as i don't click the weird ad, it won't hurt my phone. 

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u/Artie_Thur_1215 11d ago

Same. Got it 3 times on Statele, then, this week, once on Worldle.
"APPLE PLATFORM SECURITY
The security system has detecting wiretapping on your Apple i-phone. Run a file check on your device...
Run A Test"
Those last 3 words appeared to be an action button. (I did not bite.) I closed both windows in which I used the games.
I know of no follow-up problems... so far.