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It would seem I keep being redirected to an online magazine website at random when I browse the forums. Has anyone else experienced this? Running a virus scan now to see if it's something on my side, but thought it'd be worth bringing up in case anyone else is getting it, too. Thanks.

It hasn't happened to me in quite a while but it might be something similar to what I experienced:
http://www.flytrapcare.com/phpBB3/rando ... 25218.html

My issue was fixed once I enabled AdBlock Plus. I'm going to disable it to see if I get anything.

This is weird in that it only affects certain users. I've never had it happen yet and I'm on the site basically all day.

What is the website you're being redirected to?

OK, looked into this some more. It appears that quite a few websites are experiencing it. Another website I run that also serves Google Adsense ads, like FlytrapCare, is getting reports of it as well:
http://www.summitpost.org/phpBB3/report ... ml#p969806

And I've found posts all over the web discussing it:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/ ... B0fMybXkIJ
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_ad ... 701510.htm
https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/ ... -ZPBs1MJQJ
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=c ... de-mgz.com

I hope that Google finds the ad soon and eliminates it.

I just made a change to block some of the reported URLs that are using ads that redirect users. Hopefully that will eliminate the problems. Let me know if you get redirected again and please post the URL to which you get redirected. Thanks!

If someone does get redirected again, please post the full URL of the page you are redirected to.

EDIT: Just found out that it's not the site to which you are redirected that is of interest, but the actual ad on the page which is doing the redirect. So posting the URL of the landing page will do no good. You'll need to hit the back button in your browser and disable redirects to see the URL of the ad that is the perpetrator to be of any help. In any case, I hope that Google finds a quick fix.

Hi Matt, thanks for this. I'll see if I can get the url for the ad itself, rather than where I'm being redirected to. I'm hopeful that GoogleAds will sort it out soon.

After reading through a long thread where many Adsense publishers are discussing this issue, I think I've figured out which ads are doing the redirecting. I am pretty sure that I can block all of them, but it take 24 hours for the account to become enabled to block individual ads. I've blocked them at a URL level, but many others report that this is not sufficient. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll have all of them blocked. And hopefully soon after that, Google will fix the issue entirely.

Grey and Dematerialize (and anyone else), have you gotten redirected to another website recently?

Thanks again for all the research you've done on this, Matt. Haven't been on the forum too much today but the redirecting seemed to occur most at the "View New Posts" part of the site, and I've viewed that a few times over the last 24 hours without being redirected. Seems the issue may have subsided! Thanks. Will update if that changes.

Thanks for the update Grey. Hopefully the issue is resolved now!

Matt. Like Grey mentioned. I now have notice some small popups at the bottom of forum. it happen on my pc when I started using 2 hours ago.

When click close. A new browser tab appeared with a website loaded. I didn't take note what the site was before I close.

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Oh man. I thought this stuff was over. Most people on other websites haven't reported anything for a long time but looks like it might be back.

If others experience the same thing, please let me know what the ad looked like (a screen shot would be best) and what site you are being redirected to.

Thanks.

I don't get the pop ups (I use Adblock plus) but did notice at the bottom of the page that there are 0 member viewing even though I'm logged in. Just an FYI.

Hi Matt. Sorry I cannot be certain it was from your forum site after i recheck a while ago. I was too fast to determine it. As I open other sites, some ads pop up and when i ignore it and click on the website buttons , i was being redirect. It look more like it has affect my pc instead of the web. I did a few clean up, added more blockers and delete cache and now it's gone. I will monitor and report if anything happens again.