What's going on with thesims.com forums?
Every time I try to visit it, I get a message about being a deceptive site and a phishing attempt? I see no acknowledgement of the issue anywhere.
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I'm having the same issue as well, even though I have been able to access the forums just fine the previous day.
My guess would be that it's an issue on Google's end? As I can access the forums through the Edge browser, so I'm just using that while I wait for a fix for Chrome.
EA_Mai
EA Staff
EA StaffHi everyone,
Thanks for the reports! Please, rest assured that visiting https://forums.thesims.com is safe - we are currently looking into what's causing this warning to show on Chrome browsers and Firefox not showing the page properly.
If you have another browser installed, like Microsoft Edge, Opera or Safari, you should be able to access the forums as usual 🙂
-Mai
PS. Merged a couple threads together.
@EA_Mai
I just tried again and was able to successfully view the site on Firefox.
Please share my thanks to the team for fixing this issue.
- EQ Avid Sims Player
I do not work for EA
All packs installed and patches are current.
PC / Win 10
Never used CC or mods.I still have the issue and I use Firefox. It looks like this:
@EA_Mai
Back to broken 😢- EQ Avid Sims Player
I do not work for EA
All packs installed and patches are current.
PC / Win 10
Never used CC or mods.- EA_Mai
Yeah, still working on it. ☹️
I'm going to share here what I posted on the other forums as well:
We are still working on getting the warning removed, but I'm here to share some information about the issue on Firefox, as while it looks completely different than what you can see in Chrome the background cause is the same - the website being mistakenly flagged as unsafe. In this case, Chrome is showing a warning about some files, while Firefox is blocking the loading of those files: different browsers using the same information and handling things differently.
On Firefox, as the blocked files are the ones that tell the browser how to style the content of the website (how things should look) as well as adding some functionality, without that information the forums are showing... the way they are 😕
So why am I telling you all this? Because as on Chrome, although not as evident, on Firefox you also have the option to let Google know this was a detection problem and tell Firefox you trust the website and want to visit it anyways.
If you want to do this, here is how:Spoiler- Press Ctrl + Shift + C (yep, same shortcut than for cheats in The Sims! :D )
- A new panel will open, by default on the bottom of your browser window. At the top of this new panel, click on the 'Console' tab.
- Visit the forums (forums.thesims.com). You will see yellow messages appear in the Console.
- Click on any of the links in the yellow messages. This will open a similar warning to the one on Chrome.
- Press 'See details' for the warning, and you will see a more detailed explanation on the warning and what it means. If you click 'Ignore the risk', the file will be opened.
- On the top of the page, you will see another red warning bar - if you press 'This isn't a deceptive site...', you will be able to go back to the forums tab, reload the page and it should look as usual.
- You can now close the panel at the bottom of the screen (the one we opened in step 1) and the other tabs previous steps opened and use the site normally.
Keep in mind this is a temporary workaround only - closing Firefox will make it forget your choice to visit the site, and you may need to repeat these steps. But this can be an option if you want to continue using Firefox while we work on getting things back to normal.
Note: please, don't do this with websites you don't know or trust. Yes, false positives occur, but this is a security feature and we don't recommend following the above steps if you are not sure if a website is safe.Thanks,
-Mai
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