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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?

Abe Olandres

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.

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18 Comments

Guus says:

11 years ago

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.
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Renard says:

12 years ago

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.
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anOnymous says:

12 years ago

gLobe is ready to rule the world .. haha
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meme says:

12 years ago

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.
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Iyan Sommerset says:

12 years ago

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

12 years ago

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
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Bryan says:

12 years ago

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
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jo says:

12 years ago

Utorrent. Hah! What a necessity nowadays. Haha.
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torrentftw says:

12 years ago

hahahahh utorrent baby
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Faust says:

12 years ago

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/
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Reader says:

12 years ago

^^
Wow, pasimpleng spam and free promotion! Dito pa talaga sa YT umepal.

Karl says:

12 years ago

It mostly appears in web pages that are not HTTPS.
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Raymond says:

12 years ago

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!
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Bryan says:

12 years ago

I’ll answer that. No.

jade says:

12 years ago

also encountered that last time…
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Gina says:

12 years ago

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.
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Angelica says:

12 years ago

So annoying, I’ve been experiencing that lately
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