Anyone else getting those bogus Amazon redirect ads?

[jwk94]

I'm browsing with Chrome on an android device and twice in the last two days, I've been browsing a thread only to get redirected to one of those phony pages that say you've won something at Amazon. Anyone else having this problem?

 

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Yeah, I've been seeing them too

 

[Kelsdesu]

Yes

 

[SpartyCrunch]

I just got one of these just now on iPhone (Safari)

Bummer since the administration here seems to be screwed over by an ad company that's supposed to be vetting everything manually :-(

Hopefully it gets sorted out soon!

 

[SerAardvark]

Happened to me a few times on mobile earlier this morning

 

[RJeddy]

I get them constantly and with seemingly no common thread between occurrences -- they just happen randomly and it sucks.

 

[AnansiThePersona]

Yeah what's the deal with that. I thought my phone was fucked up.

 

[Avenger54321]

Yep, made me think something was wrong with me phone at first.

 

[Deleted member 25606]

Yes, on iPhone. Kind of annoying but wasn't sure where to leave feedback about it, glad it isn't just me or my phone though.

 

[Strangelove_77]

I've never gotten them here but I used to get them a ton on other sites, mostly wikia stuff.
In the end I just completely erased my history and website data(Safari iOS). That seemed to fix it.

 

[Kaako]

Yes. They are annoying as hell and intrusive.

 

[Bronx-Man]

I've been getting it as well. It's so annoying.

 

[Cerium]

Hi, yes, we are aware of this problem and have a thread where users can report and discuss them. We've brought the matter to our ad partners with the utmost urgency and they are working as we speak to get rid of these. For more information see these posts:

Its been brought up to the team. I actually just got off a call with them a couple minutes ago. Its not a simple process to just remove all types of ads like that because new ones can appear using different methods. We've made an adjustment and it should reduce them as we try to catch all of them. That should hit by the end of the weekend. We'll continue to monitor it as we go.

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It seems to be more of an issue with advertisors who slip in stuff with redirects than ad platforms. For example, these sites bid on being able to show an ad, are approved, and then change their coding to redirect off-site. It happens on almost all ad platforms these days. It makes it hard to catch since it happens after the fact.

Thankfully our partner recognizes how frustrating that is for all you guys and they as well. The change I mentioned in my previous post will hopefully help weed those malicious ads out - and hopefully keep them out for the foreseeable future.

We truly hate having those present and wish there was a way to block them 100% so we definitely apologize for that.

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Apologies for the inconvenience.