New ad issue on this site?

Since changing the default browser

Default search engine, you mean?

Curious. I’m utterly bemused as to why that would make a difference; why does browsing to a specific URL touch the search engines at all? What on Earth is Safari doing?

I am actually starting to like the redirects. Although, we are going to have to change the meaning of the initials to SexyTrackWorld….

…this was one of the tamer pics 8)

That aside, there was an interesting article on Pajamba and PetaPixel recently which backs up what I have noticed that these are getting everywhere.

http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/about-those-insidious-mobile-ads-that-hijack-your-phone-and-redirect-you-to-the-app-store.php

Readers Reporting Auto Redirecting Ads on Mobile

I got one of those ad’s yesterday too, but with actual bewbies on show. Was on my work laptop too. Luckily I was working from home & not in the office…

I am actually starting to like the redirects. Although, we are going to have to change the meaning of the initials to SexyTrackWorld….

They’re advertising a dating site where you can pull a monkey?

(not a euphemism.)

They’re advertising a dating site where you can pull a monkey?

I believe it’s a gorilla, unless it actually says Dong on it’s shirt, rather than Kong.

There are better ways to earn £100… 😛

I’m fully subscribed to this site and I haven’t had a single porn pop-up. Sort it out!!

I only get traumatized when i am logged out. Not doing that again.
I’m off cats for life 😯

My ISP ‘bad thing’ filter has been very active over the last few days 😳

And before anyone makes any suggestions, this was on my work laptop and work phone so it is not my browser history causing issues

We’ve finally got a hit on a device here at the office today, which has given us some useful information. It also appears to be a wider issue than just our site as reports are popping up around the web. It’s definitely a rogue ad linked to adware but it appears to be spreading more widely. I’ve deactivated one network completely that sat at the bottom of the pile but I think I can rule that one out now. I shall move on to the next one but I’m a bit worried this is building up to be a spreading issue across the wider ad network arena.

Bon courage!

I just got the prawn ad

I want the pron ad.

You can’t handle the ad.

I don’t want to handle it 😯

(Still using salad tongues to pick up my phone 🙁 )

salad tongues

😯

I had porn pop up last night whilst sat next to my wife. Not good after she caught me looking at it a few weeks ago and promised not to do it again.

:-/

Since changing the default browser
Default search engine, you mean?

Curious. I’m utterly bemused as to why that would make a difference; why does browsing to a specific URL touch the search engines at all? What on Earth is Safari doing?
Yeah, sorry, easily confused!
Damned if I know why it seems to work, but it does. There was something I read about swapping search engine from Google to avoid certain issues that Google throws up, I really can’t remember specifics, but something made me try it, and it seemed to do the trick. There are aspects to Google’s search that I prefer, but there are also aspects to ddg’s search, especially image, that works better, at least when wanting url’s to post on here; with Google, for some reason when you find an image and click on it, it takes you direct to the website now, instead of the image file URL, ddg still shows site and image file url’s as separate, at least in Safari on iOS.

I had porn pop up last night whilst sat next to my wife. Not good after she caught me looking at it a few weeks ago and promised not to do it again.

Targeted advertising? (-: You really need to report that one.

Damned if I know why it seems to work, but it does.

Bizarre. Could someone else with an iDevice try this please, see if they can replicate the behaviour?

Gets a bit difficult to search for previous threads about advert problems when you’re getting taken off the forum to yet another crap advert.
I did notice on the many links it was going through that one was ad.king not sure if this helps.

minor gripe in comparison, but

Connected to static.criteo.net

may be true, but their hamster is dying if my blank sceen on new pages is anything to go by 🙁

Criteo is one of our trusted networks and they are normally extremely reliable. However, they hit a bit of trouble yesterday and their ad did indeed cause some page loading delays. It’s fixed now but from time to time that does happen.

The nasty pop-up issue is spreading widely now. We do have the ability to close of a network when we catch it happening but there are literally thousands of networks pumping ads into the global system and it’s a bit like whack-a-mole. The industry at large behind the scenes are chasing these issues down. It’s in their best interests to do it as the ad blocking issue that this type of issue exacerbates pretty much threatens to put them all out of business.

I’ve made a bunch of delivery changes with our setup (We use 3 principal providers of network ads that we’ve come to trust) and I’ll keep whacking the moles as I find them. Ultimately it’s the networks that will solve the problem and it will stop… Until the next hacker comes along and injects shitty code through the next hole in the system.

Keep reporting issues to me please. I’ll do my utmost to fix them.

For reference, I mostly see Singletrack on my IPhone 6s.
Had loads of pop ups a week or so ago in this forum, which I reported on this thread.
I’ve now seen the the exact same pop ups on a guitar tab forum and another music related forum in the last couple of days.
Is it something to do with IPhone rather than the actual website?

Hope this helps in some way.

Is it something to do with IPhone rather than the actual website?

It’s to do with ad networks, and **** inserting malicious code into adverts on the network. Lots of sites will use the same networks, so a problem can be seen on several sites.

Here’s a good overview of the issue:

It’s not the publishers’ faults. It’s not the Apple or Google Play or Android stores’ fault (entirely, anyway) either, and it’s not even the ad networks’ faults. Those ads originate with insidious little pissants who sneak bad code into large ad networks, and they’re very difficult to detect and root out.
In short, this is how it works: We the publishers enter into a relationship with an ad network. In addition to their own ads, those ad networks run ads from other third-party ad networks. When an advertiser inputs an ad, the ad network checks to ensure there are no spam or malware or phone hijacking ads. However, once the ad has passed inspection, some of these shady motherf**kers come in and add the hijacking code into the ad. They’re hard to detect because there are scores of third-party ad networks within each ad network with hundreds of ads being delivered all over the Internet.

In other words, they sneak these ads into legitimate respectable ad networks (even Google’s own ad network), against the policies not only of the ad networks, but against the policies of the Apple/Android/Google App stores, and even the clients disapprove of these ads (King, the maker of Candy Crush — where I’m redirected more than any other place — is also trying everything they can do to prevent the ads).

– http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/about-those-insidious-mobile-ads-that-hijack-your-phone-and-redirect-you-to-the-app-store.php

and round