what is ip.casalemedia.com pop up that has invalid certificate that keeps appearing in my screen? I have a MacbookPro iOS10.11.4 4GB. How do I get rid of this pop up?

Skeptical Nerd wrote:

In the last 30mins. this just happened to me twice. I was logged into Capital One Banking website. The 2nd time it happened I was on Nerdwallet website. This has never happened to me before.

Commercial surveillance and data aggregators and advertisers with bad certificates aren't particularly rare.

Nor are instances where some of those same sites have hosted browser-based malware, unfortunately.

Given the pools of web servers and the load-balancing techniques that many web sites and providers and aggregators use, these sorts of problems can be intermittent, too. Cases where one bad or misconfigured or infested server in a pool of servers is tossing some error or serving some malware, and the other servers are all working fine.

All of these replies are not helpful. It should be obvious to the most casual observer that those of us that are receiving the message are annoyed by it and are looking for a way to stop it. We don't care that it is an advertising tracking company with corrupted or incorrect code. It is on my computer and I want to get rid of it. This IP address or the character string should be blocked from requesting a certificate using my browser. In a perfect world all trackers and advertisers would be blocked not just this one.

The question that was asked and the answer that we are all seeking is how to stop it.....

If the people that are attempting to reply to this question do not know how to stop it, they should say they do not know or be silent. Long detailed explanations that do not solve the problem or stop the message are not helpful...

casale media is making a **** nuisance of themselves and need to be stopped.

It is on my computer and I want to get rid of it.

It is NOT on your computer. It is in html code on a web site you visited.

This IP address or the character string should be blocked from requesting a certificate using my browser.

An ad on the Web site you visited requested a connection to the advertiser's site. The advertiser's site refused the connection due to bad cerificate.

and the answer that we are all seeking is how to stop it.....

Since a lot of the Internet is supported by ads, the only certain way to stop it is to stop using the Internet.

You can try complaining to the site that hosted the ads, but They are not certain to take any action.

casale media is making a **** nuisance of themselves and need to be stopped.

Tell that to the owners of the web site you visited.

This is not on your computer, this is a misconfiguration of a fundamental part of one of the web servers that is associated with and serving part of the contents of the web site that you are accessing. Various web sites routinely pull in large quantities of tracking scripts and other such from multiple web servers located all over the 'net as part of serving up what appears to be a single web page from the web server that you're directly accessing.

In short, this is part of how you are tracked and how your web activities are logged, and the folks collecting this data then package and market this data. Or — like the folks at Google — the folks then use the collected data to more profitably sell advertisements to the folks that want to market to you, or otherwise track you. It's increasingly common for these tracking folks to know who you are, what illnesses and interests you might have, what you've purchased, and that's all based on these tracking web sites and with data those sites purchase from credit card companies and other sources and then collate that data with your activities.

An ad-blocker can help here, as can changes arriving in Safari for iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra, but... This is how the web works now, particularly the ad-supported parts of the web, and this error is what happens when the folks at one of these entities makes a mistake with their servers.

If you wish to try to be tracked less, then Tor can be one potential option. Tor adds more complexity to your local configuration and operations, and it can also unfortunately add some risks as the Tor web browsers can be specifically targeted by folks interested in who might be trying to disguise their web traffic. There have also been fake Tor browsers around, too.

For more reading on privacy, as well as data breaches of folks collecting data...

The request not to track?

I'm sure there might have been a few services that implemented code for and that honored that tracking request. I'd expect most don't, and it wouldn't surprise me that some folks added code to detect and log additional tracking metadata related to the folks that were sending that request.

In this case, the only way that tracking request can be communicated with the servers is after the SSL connection is negotiated, too. Which is the issue here with establishing connections into ad networks with problematic certificates.

Certainly try enabling the request. It won't hurt. But I'd not expect the request to be honored in general, nor would I expect it to work in this particular case.

As was mentioned up-thread, consider installing an ad blocker. uBlock is one, and there are other options. Ad blockers can sometimes also help folks avoid additional issues when the ad networks are breached, too. Ad network breaches have happened on various occasions, too.

In the last 30mins. this just happened to me twice. I was logged into Capital One Banking website. The 2nd time it happened I was on Nerdwallet website. This has never happened to me before.

I just started getting this too. Would turning on the website tracking preferences under Privacy in safari help? See attached.

are you trying to make a secure connection to that web site?

if not, what are you trying to do when the pop up comes up?

Casale Media is an advertising and web usage tracking site. Whatever web site you're using is loading data from Casale, or something on your computer is attempting to directly access Casale for some reason, and the Casale servers are having certificate issues.

I am on an iMac and have the same issue suddenly. I'm usually checking email when it pops up. I'm not associated with Casale media or know anything about it. So how do I get it to stop? Someone suggested deleting the certificate from my keychain in utilities but there is no certificate by that name (or close to it) there.

I am on an iMac and have the same issue suddenly. I'm usually checking email when it pops up. I'm not associated with Casale media or know anything about it. So how do I get it to stop? Someone suggested deleting the certificate from my keychain in utilities but there is no certificate by that name (or close to it) there.

If you're somewhat unfamiliar with how the web works, and how individuals are tracked and how targeted advertising and web data sales work, maybe the following can help understand a little more about what is likely happening here, and the previous replies... It doesn't matter what organizations you're associated with. Various entities on the internet try to track everybody. Even their own folks get tracked. What web pages you access, what searches you run, who you exchange email with, what you write, etc.

Now as for the complexity of the web... Most of the web pages that we all visit are built from references and from content located across many different web servers, too. While you might go to one web address, the content loaded into and displayed by your web browser can originate on many different web servers, in many different domains, across many countries, owned by different organizations, and each server with many different certificates, cookies and the rest involved. Only the simplest of web pages around these days will load everything only from the web server you are visiting in your web browser.

Now mail itself — specifically HTML-format mail messages — is web content and is very much similar to a web page, and the messages can load what they display from one or more remote web servers. Loading remote image content in an HTML mail format message can cause these errors, as the mail client must access the remote web server(s) involved in the message — these images are commonly used to track who has read a mail message, too — can have certificate problems.

Now.... Getting back to the previous reply I've posted here...

Based on what you're reporting here, whatever web site you're accessing — and HTML-format mail messages can access web sites and web data, particularly if you're allowing mail to load load remote images — is loading data from Casale, or something else running on your computer is attempting to directly access Casale for some reason, and the Casale servers are (again?) having certificate issues. Various apps that look like local apps running on your Mac are really just a form of a web browser, too. Accessing remote data and rendering the HTML for display, for whatever the app was built to do. If it's not Mail or Safari or such directly involved, sometimes figuring out which tool is causing these certificate errors might not be entirely obvious.

There is nothing you can do about this certificate error, so you're left to ignore it. Sooner or later the folks managing the web server involved here will notice and update their certificate. Or you can look into tools or web browser add-ons or alternate web browsers that might offer mechanisms or tools to block web and ad tracking if you're inclined. Or you can potentially block the reference to the failing web server. But that's a more general discussion, and that can sometimes introduce other problems and confusions. If you want to discuss that topic, please consider starting your own discussion thread.

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