Wednesday 25 February 2015

Begone evil feed!

If you've ever been in the position of receiving unsolicited feed read on!

When I first started blogging I was in the excited blur of discovering new people, influences and friends. I signed up to follow many of those that interested me and have received regular updates ever since via my blogger feed.

However several months ago I noticed that one of the blogs had changed beyond recognition. The blog name had stayed the same but the language had most definitely changed - both literally and figuratively. Although I am not fluent in Spanish it was apparent - from the preview pane alone - that the contents were undeniably pornographic. Some words need no translation. I responded to this 'invasion' by never clicking on the link and hoping that if I showed no interest it would eventually 'go away'.

However tonight when I was bombarded with twelve simultaneous feeds from the same link I decided enough was enough. After much trawling of the web and various help centres I found out just how to get rid of this insidious connection. I only know how to do this in Blogger but hopefully it might help some of you in the same position.

The first thing you need to do is to click your My Blogs section. This will then display the reading list of all the blogs that you follow on the left hand side of your screen.

To the right of where it says 'All blogs' there is a gear symbol. Click on this to manage your settings. The screen will then change to something more like this. It might take a while so be patient.

(So sorry about the quality of these pictures - the only way I could find to upload them was to take photos of the screen)


Find the offending blog and click on the settings option on the right hand side of the screen.


Again this can sometimes take time - I had to right click and open link in a new tab.
This should then take you to a link page which will ask if you wish to continue following this blog. This is your chance.


Click stop following and give yourself a pat on the back. You've done it. Not only should you have banished the blog forever but you should also have got rid of any previous posts. Freedom!

I hope this has been able to help some of you.

It's nearly Spring!!!


Jane
xxx

22 comments :

  1. Thanks for this advice and I must say, for about two years on blogger I have NOT been able to stop following any blog, because the gear button always tells me "we are not able to process ... " and they ask me to check back later. So blogs that stopped two years ago, and blogs with porn or spam, or whatever, still show up on my blog feed. Ugh. If anyone has a fix for this, please let me know.

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  2. Thanks I had a check, all seems well, but good to know. I sometimes get strange links when I look at stats but I don't click on them. Not sure what they are! x

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  3. Thanks so much for this info Jane. My blog has been dormant for nearly a year now so I have a lot of maintenance to do. I hope that there is no bad blogs linked though. At least I now know what to do if there are!
    Love Rosie xx

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  4. Thanks so much for this info Jane. My blog has been dormant for nearly a year now so I have a lot of maintenance to do. I hope that there is no bad blogs linked though. At least I now know what to do if there are!
    Love Rosie xx

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  5. Good advice, Jane. I'm glad you've got rid of your Spanish porn! :oO

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  6. Well done Jane for working your way through that horrible IT maze - but you did it ! Onwards and upwards !!
    Kate xx

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  7. That's very useful, thanks, I need to do some cyber housework but too scared of breaking something! xx

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  8. Glad you managed to sort this, and thanks for sharing the knowhow. CJ xx

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  9. Oh, Jane this happened to me earlier this week and I wonder if we were following the same blog which has now been closed by the lovely lady who wrote it. I had this happen to me a few years ago in the same way and knew that if you could find out which blog it was you could 'unfollow' so I did that again I'm so glad that you worked out what to do - I must admit it was a bit startling to see all those posts pop up but it felt good when they all disappeared:)

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    1. Maybe we were - without giving the name of the blog away it rhymed with hampered barrow!

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    2. Oh no it wasn't the same one - mine had the initials BQ and rhymed with 'Hisspul stilts':)

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  10. Glad you got rid of it Jane and thank you for sharing the how to. Jxx

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  11. Yes, I did know how to do this, for similar reasons to you. I wish that neither of us needed to know how to do it! Good that you shared for others to know though! xx

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  12. Thank never knew how to do this,
    Rosezeeta

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  13. Thanks for this - I had noticed a 'blog' I was 'following' by the name of Breaking Celebrity News - lots of rubbish, lots of Spanish, suspect it was a bit pornographic. Gone!
    S x

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    1. That's the badger! It changed names a couple of times but always with the same writer. So glad you've managed to get rid of it x

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  14. I have been able to stop following blogs using this method in the past, it seems to work OK for me. There's a message on my dashboard at the moment that states that from March Blogger will no longer allow adult material so maybe the problem will be removed?

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    1. I noticed that message too so hopefully things like this shouldn't really happen again - fingers crossed x

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  15. Sadly I think some blogs get hacked and unsavoury......love that word, so 1940s, posts get put on, I've had to unfollow a couple due to this too :) xxx

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  16. I had the same a couple of months ago with someone taking over a blog name and trying to sell computers.Such a nuisance.I did get rid of it eventually.I think it was by your method.Barbarax

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  17. Oh thank you for posting this. I wondered how to get rid of feeds but hadn't a notion how to do it.

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