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Globe’s iToolbar mysteriously reappears

We’ve been getting reports from users in the past several days about the Globe iToolbar popping up again on their mobile phones and tablets. Even our old story from back in May 2012 has been revived with user feedback about it.

We have not encountered the toolbar ourselves until tonight when it mysteriously appeared on our laptop browser. Here’s a screenshot of the Globe iToolbar showing up on the Netvibes page (we’re tethered to a Globe iPhone 5).

It’s not showing on other pages except the Netvibes page. It eventually disappeared after a couple of page refresh. In any case, it now confirms the re-appearance of the widget that was previously scrapped by Globe.

Anybody else seeing the iToolbar lately?

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

18 Responses

  1. Avatar for Guus Guus says:

    I saw the code on Tattoo home testing websites. Apparently the code can ruin websites showing up properly. A very bad thing to do, messing with web pages by adding or changing stuff.

  2. Avatar for Renard Renard says:

    nilagay ko sya sa URL block list ko. nag stopped yun for several months tapos bumalik ulit 2 weeks ago. baka bago na naman yung cookie URL.

  3. Avatar for anOnymous anOnymous says:

    gLobe is ready to rule the world .. haha

  4. Avatar for meme meme says:

    It shows when go to google, yugatech, cnet, and engadget… using mozilla and chrome..

    when I used IE10 it didn’t pop out. it’s annoying.

  5. Avatar for Iyan Sommerset Iyan Sommerset says:

    Is it possible to manually block it via Flashblock, Adblock or hosts file (Windows) shenanigans?

  6. Avatar for Bryan Bryan says:

    alternatively, you can use adblock extension/plugins depending on your browser. sure way to kill it without relying on the disable option of that annoying toolbar

  7. Avatar for Bryan Bryan says:

    some meme for you to spread around

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/bryan_mmx/AnnoyingTattooMeme.jpg

    and

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/bryan_mmx/SaidnoGlobesubscriberever.jpg

  8. Avatar for jo jo says:

    Utorrent. Hah! What a necessity nowadays. Haha.

  9. Avatar for torrentftw torrentftw says:

    hahahahh utorrent baby

  10. Avatar for Faust Faust says:

    I’m also experiencing the same, when I had my Globe Tattoo Postpaid internet sim replaced and made a post about it here:http://geekyfaust.info/news/annoying-globe-toolbar-part-2/

  11. Avatar for Karl Karl says:

    It mostly appears in web pages that are not HTTPS.

  12. Avatar for Raymond Raymond says:

    sir yuga is it possible na ma-charge ka ng globe postpaid ng additional if ginamit mo as personal hotspot ng iphone 5 LTE mo? for example connecting your laptop to your iphone 5. thank you!

  13. Avatar for jade jade says:

    also encountered that last time…

  14. Avatar for Gina Gina says:

    Annoying toolbar. There’s a disable button, but it doesnt work. It comes back after browsing a few pages -_-. What’s more annoying is that everytime i start my browser, the toolbar’s welcome pop-up sign covers the entire page.

  15. Avatar for Angelica Angelica says:

    So annoying, I’ve been experiencing that lately

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