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Resolved "pay.sandbox.google.com" client certificate pop up in Safari

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ignatius345

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Been seeing this on the New York Times website (and no others) the past couple days in Safari. Found one other user on Apple Support Communities seeing the same thing. Anybody else? Been hitting “cancel” obviously, as the whole thing looks quite sketchy. I’m assuming it’s some kind of misconfiguration of the NYT site?

Tahoe 26.5
Safari Version 26.5 (21624.2.5.11.4)
 
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Me too. I cancel and move on. I only see it on the NYT web site, so I think it is a bug in the NYT website which takes rather a long time to load anyway. I have an account but I have an add blocker too (not paying a subscription and getting ads) and I think the web site loading process is very complicated as it tries to sort layouts etc. based on suppressed ad space. Glad I am not the only one seeing this. Thanks for posting.
 
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From what I can gather it's a piece of google developer code Google accidentally included a "sandbox" (testing) link in a code update. It's dynamically linked to an ad and they know about it and searching for what it's linked to but it's buried deeply
It seems to be both Bloomberg and NYT.
They are working to fix it so it should be gone in a couple of days.
 
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I see this too, on my wifi iPad. Thing is, it offers to use a TMobile client certificate; my phone is on TMo but my iPad is not. I’m wondering how this cert got there.
 

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From what I can gather it's a piece of google developer code Google accidentally included a "sandbox" (testing) link in a code update. It's dynamically linked to an ad and they know about it and searching for what it's linked to but it's buried deeply
It seems to be both Bloomberg and NYT.
They are working to fix it so it should be gone in a couple of days.
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@Ruggy when you say "ads" can you say what you are referring to?

when you say "They are working to fix it" who are you referring to?
 
Had this pop up on eBay last night when buying something. Struck me as weird; glad to see people commenting on it here so I know it’s not just me.
 
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Nope, I'm still getting it…
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Interesting. I have not seen it this morning on my iPad, MacOS machines and iPad. Does not make sense, does it. I will post if is re-appears, but it looks as if the problem is not completely solved. I use Safari with adBlock Plus enabled, if this makes any difference.
 
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