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Received annoying pop up "There is no application set to open the URL moat-bridge:gvr:MoatSuperV22._i_.b.u."

While I was browsing bleacherreport.com on Safari 9.1 on my Macbook Air Yosemite (10.10.5), I received this strange pop up window that read:


"There is no application set to open the URL moat-bridge:gvr:MoatSuperV22._i_.b.u."


Eight more windows with the same message popped up in succession. I restarted my Macbook immediately afterwards without pressing any of its options (Cancel, Change Document, Search App Store), so I wasn't able to get a screenshot, only the message. A quick Google search of this supposed URL yields no results, but after searching the substrings within it (moat-bridge, gvr, and MoatSuperV22), it might be related to Minecraft. Odd, since I do not have Minecraft on my computer, and there was no ad related to Minecraft on the bleacherreport.com site.


I haven't been able to reproduce this weird pop up, but I'm posting to see if anyone has encountered this and had any input. Thanks.

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on May 17, 2016 7:36 PM

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Posted on May 25, 2016 2:59 PM

Hi ..



If this happens again, delete Safari cookies.


From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab then click: Remove All Website Data


Then quit and relaunch Safari.

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May 26, 2016 8:51 AM in response to _michael2599

its a plug in or pop up from BR....i think its some ad they are running. It doesn't happen on ALL pages. I had it happen on "first person every team should ditch this off season" under NBA.


Obviously some advertiser is making a PC only pop up ad or something, not caring about Mac....well I don't want to give them my business anyway.


I never had it happen on CNN....yet

Received annoying pop up "There is no application set to open the URL moat-bridge:gvr:MoatSuperV22._i_.b.u."

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