Ads redirecting on mobile
#301
DVD Talk Legend
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I've been getting the same for the past couple days. Few times on PC but mostly on my phone via Safari. Almost every time I visit from mobile.
#302
Administrator
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Noonan, could you post a screenshot of the PC one? That's pretty unusual
#303
DVD Talk Hero
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Got a “Google” one 8 times in a row just now on my phone in Chrome. Couldn’t read a thread at all.
EDIT: Just got it again trying to post this picture.
EDIT 2: Getting it every few seconds now. Had to write this in Notes and copy/paste to get it posted. Can’t use the forum at all. Sweet.
EDIT: Just got it again trying to post this picture.
EDIT 2: Getting it every few seconds now. Had to write this in Notes and copy/paste to get it posted. Can’t use the forum at all. Sweet.
Last edited by Draven; 11-17-17 at 07:57 AM.
#304
DVD Talk Legend
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It’s really getting bad again. I can’t even type a post without the redirect forcing its way through every ten seconds or so. Same thing as Draven is getting.
#305
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I am being hit over and over again as well.. I cannot get a screen grab every time yet that is what is requested in order for anyone to fix this mess... while I use this site often I am finding it harder and harder to use it therefore I come here less often as I cannot put up with being taken hostage all the time... I hope they fix it before traffic drops off drastically..
#306
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
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I’ll be out soon. I’ve been willing to put up with it because I love this community but it’s just not possible to read the forum for more than a few minutes before you get hit.
#308
#312
DVD Talk God
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^^^ Yup, I got hit with that today multiple times on my phone.
The Mobile website is practically unusable.
The Mobile website is practically unusable.
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There was a time a few months ago that it seemed to settle down for me, but it's back to getting the same gift card crap again, and again, and again, and again.
Do any of you folks post regularly over at Blu-Ray.com? Doesn't look like they have a mobile skin, but at least it appears to be active. Might be time to migrate.
Do any of you folks post regularly over at Blu-Ray.com? Doesn't look like they have a mobile skin, but at least it appears to be active. Might be time to migrate.
#314
Admin
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Thought this was interesting. Probably not going to help this situation as the ad actually redirects the browser away from DT and onto the spammer website, but I'll throw this up here anyway.
Compurerworld - Chrome to block ads in February
Compurerworld - Chrome to block ads in February
Chrome to block ads in February
Sites will have to pay an ad coalition to evade a blockade by the world's most popular browser.
Gregg Keizer By Gregg Keizer
Senior Reporter, Computerworld | DEC 20, 2017 4:31 AM PT
Google yesterday announced that it will start blocking ads in its Chrome browser on Feb. 15.
Websites that want to avoid the Chrome hammer can either shed several broad categories of online ads or pay a consortium of advertisers, advertising trade associations and technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, to become "certified."
"Starting on February 15, in line with the Coalition's guidelines, Chrome will remove all ads from sites that have a 'failing' status," Google said on its website, referring to the Coalition for Better Ads (CBA), a group that's promised to scour the web of the most annoying advertisements.
Chrome's ad-blocking timeline matches what Google said six months ago, when it confirmed that it would launch the controversial effort in early 2018. At the middle of February, most users will be running Chrome 64, now slated to release the week of Jan. 21-26. The current version of the browser is Chrome 63.
On the desktop, Chrome will block four types of advertisements (out of six considered), while on mobile - iOS and Android - the browser will bar eight kinds of ads (out of a dozen scrutinized): These categories were identified by the CBA and its consumer panel as the least acceptable.
The four ad classes to get the ax on the desktop include pop-ups, ones that automatically play video and audio, "prestitial" ads accompanied by a countdown clock, and those dubbed "large sticky ads," which blanket more than 30% of the screen and remain in place no matter how furiously the user scrolls.
Rather than block those ad types on all sites - as most ad-blocking browser add-ons do - Chrome will take a different tack.
The browser will rely on a whitelist generated by the the CBA. Site publishers will be able to start the certification process, and thus secure a spot on the list, next month, when more details will be made available. Certified websites must meet certain standards, the most important being a low ratio of unacceptable ad types.
In the first two months of the project - the start date will be revealed in January, the CBA said - disreputable ads must not account for more than 7.5% of all page views on a certified site. The cutoff falls after that, so that after six months, ads can comprise just 2.5% of a site's page views. In effect, the CBA will let certified sites ease into the blockade, with a smaller quota of "bad" ads over time.
Sites that do not "volunteer" to become certified by the CBA, or are judged by the organization to be non-compliant - effectively all sites but those on the whitelist - will have ads in the banned categories blocked. Even a single objectionable ad will trigger a block by Chrome.
Although the CBA revealed some specifics about the standards, the whitelist and how sites can contest the ad blocking decision, much of the program remains a black box. It was unclear, for instance, how often sites would be re-evaluated for violations, or how long it might take to appeal a ruling.
Nor is there information about fees.
Brendan McCormick, a spokesman for the CBA, said that payments would be required from most sites that seek certification. Although he stressed that there is much "to be worked out" between now and the January launch of the program, McCormick confirmed what AdAge reported Tuesday. Quoting an unnamed coalition spokesperson, the publication said that the CBA would charge the largest publishers up to $5,000 using a sliding scale. Some "very small publishers" may be certified at no charge.
"A lot has not been finalized," McCormick told Computerworld. "There's still much to be worked out. The essential part is to make this affordable [to site publishers]." He declined to say whether fees would be one-time only, or assessed annually.
Evaluations and certifications will begin in January, McCormick said, but he would not specify a timetable.
Past attempts to craft a working definition of annoying online ads, and barring those from the web, or even subsets of the ad ecology, like the "Do Not Track" push nearly 10 years ago, have usually come to naught because of the competing interests of the major players. What's different about the CBA?
"First, the Coalition has global support," said McCormick, "with membership of the leading companies and trade associations in every aspect of the [ad] supply train. Second, is the approach [the CBA] took to do extensive research about what consumers found below the threshold of acceptability.
"Intuitively, people knew, but now we have a coherent and consistent view [of what an unacceptable ad is]," McCormick added.
What he left unsaid was the participation of Google, and the massive stick that it will wield with Chrome. The browser will be the enforcer of the CPA's rules.
Because Chrome is the most popular browser on the planet - the contest is not even close - publishers cannot afford to dismiss the ad-blocking project, as they have done others before, if site revenue relies on advertising. According to U.S. analytics vendor Net Applications, Chrome accounted for 61% of the world's desktop browser user share last month, meaning that more than 6 out of every 10 people who went online during November used Chrome to do so. Irish metrics company StatCounter said that 55% of the desktop browser usage share, an estimate of activity rather than the user base, came from Chrome in the same month.
If Chrome shuts off the spigot, even if it blocks only the unacceptable ad categories, site owners will see a substantial drop in revenue. But it's questionable that Chrome will be able to narrowly target its blocking at only some ads on a non-compliant website.
"We would like to be able to filter out only the non-compliant ad experiences, but this is technically very challenging," said someone identified as Brandon_L and a Google employee on a support thread devoted to the upcoming ad blocking. "The Chrome team is assessing the best way to approach this challenge. We are working with the Coalition for Better Ads on the enforcement details for annoying ad experiences and expect to have additional details and dates soon."
In other words, Chrome's ad blocking may end up being implemented on a site-wide basis. A non-compliant website may have all its advertisements filtered from what users see in the browser.
Computerworld will continue to follow the Chrome ad-blocking story - the bulk of enterprise users now run that browser as well - as more details become available.
browser user share, november 2017 IDG/Data: Net Applications
Chrome is easily the most popular web browser now in use based on statistics for November 2017.
Sites will have to pay an ad coalition to evade a blockade by the world's most popular browser.
Gregg Keizer By Gregg Keizer
Senior Reporter, Computerworld | DEC 20, 2017 4:31 AM PT
Google yesterday announced that it will start blocking ads in its Chrome browser on Feb. 15.
Websites that want to avoid the Chrome hammer can either shed several broad categories of online ads or pay a consortium of advertisers, advertising trade associations and technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, to become "certified."
"Starting on February 15, in line with the Coalition's guidelines, Chrome will remove all ads from sites that have a 'failing' status," Google said on its website, referring to the Coalition for Better Ads (CBA), a group that's promised to scour the web of the most annoying advertisements.
Chrome's ad-blocking timeline matches what Google said six months ago, when it confirmed that it would launch the controversial effort in early 2018. At the middle of February, most users will be running Chrome 64, now slated to release the week of Jan. 21-26. The current version of the browser is Chrome 63.
On the desktop, Chrome will block four types of advertisements (out of six considered), while on mobile - iOS and Android - the browser will bar eight kinds of ads (out of a dozen scrutinized): These categories were identified by the CBA and its consumer panel as the least acceptable.
The four ad classes to get the ax on the desktop include pop-ups, ones that automatically play video and audio, "prestitial" ads accompanied by a countdown clock, and those dubbed "large sticky ads," which blanket more than 30% of the screen and remain in place no matter how furiously the user scrolls.
Rather than block those ad types on all sites - as most ad-blocking browser add-ons do - Chrome will take a different tack.
The browser will rely on a whitelist generated by the the CBA. Site publishers will be able to start the certification process, and thus secure a spot on the list, next month, when more details will be made available. Certified websites must meet certain standards, the most important being a low ratio of unacceptable ad types.
In the first two months of the project - the start date will be revealed in January, the CBA said - disreputable ads must not account for more than 7.5% of all page views on a certified site. The cutoff falls after that, so that after six months, ads can comprise just 2.5% of a site's page views. In effect, the CBA will let certified sites ease into the blockade, with a smaller quota of "bad" ads over time.
Sites that do not "volunteer" to become certified by the CBA, or are judged by the organization to be non-compliant - effectively all sites but those on the whitelist - will have ads in the banned categories blocked. Even a single objectionable ad will trigger a block by Chrome.
Although the CBA revealed some specifics about the standards, the whitelist and how sites can contest the ad blocking decision, much of the program remains a black box. It was unclear, for instance, how often sites would be re-evaluated for violations, or how long it might take to appeal a ruling.
Nor is there information about fees.
Brendan McCormick, a spokesman for the CBA, said that payments would be required from most sites that seek certification. Although he stressed that there is much "to be worked out" between now and the January launch of the program, McCormick confirmed what AdAge reported Tuesday. Quoting an unnamed coalition spokesperson, the publication said that the CBA would charge the largest publishers up to $5,000 using a sliding scale. Some "very small publishers" may be certified at no charge.
"A lot has not been finalized," McCormick told Computerworld. "There's still much to be worked out. The essential part is to make this affordable [to site publishers]." He declined to say whether fees would be one-time only, or assessed annually.
Evaluations and certifications will begin in January, McCormick said, but he would not specify a timetable.
Past attempts to craft a working definition of annoying online ads, and barring those from the web, or even subsets of the ad ecology, like the "Do Not Track" push nearly 10 years ago, have usually come to naught because of the competing interests of the major players. What's different about the CBA?
"First, the Coalition has global support," said McCormick, "with membership of the leading companies and trade associations in every aspect of the [ad] supply train. Second, is the approach [the CBA] took to do extensive research about what consumers found below the threshold of acceptability.
"Intuitively, people knew, but now we have a coherent and consistent view [of what an unacceptable ad is]," McCormick added.
What he left unsaid was the participation of Google, and the massive stick that it will wield with Chrome. The browser will be the enforcer of the CPA's rules.
Because Chrome is the most popular browser on the planet - the contest is not even close - publishers cannot afford to dismiss the ad-blocking project, as they have done others before, if site revenue relies on advertising. According to U.S. analytics vendor Net Applications, Chrome accounted for 61% of the world's desktop browser user share last month, meaning that more than 6 out of every 10 people who went online during November used Chrome to do so. Irish metrics company StatCounter said that 55% of the desktop browser usage share, an estimate of activity rather than the user base, came from Chrome in the same month.
If Chrome shuts off the spigot, even if it blocks only the unacceptable ad categories, site owners will see a substantial drop in revenue. But it's questionable that Chrome will be able to narrowly target its blocking at only some ads on a non-compliant website.
"We would like to be able to filter out only the non-compliant ad experiences, but this is technically very challenging," said someone identified as Brandon_L and a Google employee on a support thread devoted to the upcoming ad blocking. "The Chrome team is assessing the best way to approach this challenge. We are working with the Coalition for Better Ads on the enforcement details for annoying ad experiences and expect to have additional details and dates soon."
In other words, Chrome's ad blocking may end up being implemented on a site-wide basis. A non-compliant website may have all its advertisements filtered from what users see in the browser.
Computerworld will continue to follow the Chrome ad-blocking story - the bulk of enterprise users now run that browser as well - as more details become available.
browser user share, november 2017 IDG/Data: Net Applications
Chrome is easily the most popular web browser now in use based on statistics for November 2017.
#315
DVD Talk Ultimate Edition
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This looks even more promising if it's pushed out to the mobile versions of Chrome as well as the desktop.
https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-s...rom-redirects/
https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-s...rom-redirects/
#317
DVD Talk Ultimate Edition
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Yup...site is unreliable today, constant redirects...this is my third attempt to post in this thread.
ETA: Using a 1st gen 12.9” iPad Pro.
ETA: Using a 1st gen 12.9” iPad Pro.
#318
DVD Talk God
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This morning on my iPad, I kept getting bounces to some sketchy site for free $1,000 Amazon gift cards. I was driving me crazy and kept doing it incessantly.
There is definitely something wrong with the software that operates this board, especially for Mobile usage.
There is definitely something wrong with the software that operates this board, especially for Mobile usage.
#320
DVD Talk Hero
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Happening about every other page load now (including while I tried to post this).
IB, if you don’t want us here, just say so. This ad bullshit is a convoluted way to tell us to leave.
IB, if you don’t want us here, just say so. This ad bullshit is a convoluted way to tell us to leave.
#321
DVD Talk Legend
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Yeah it’s been happening to me over the past couple days or so again where the site is basically not even usable. I get redirected to some site saying that I’ve won an Amazon gift card or an iPhone X and can’t even click back to get to the forum again. I can only get rid of it by closing the tab in Safari. It always seems to happen when I’m on my iPhone. I haven’t tried a different device yet. I don’t see why this issue seems to happen so frequently.
#322
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Ads redirecting me to cam girl site MERGED
Yeah it’s been happening to me over the past couple days or so again where the site is basically not even usable. I get redirected to some site saying that I’ve won an Amazon gift card or an iPhone X and can’t even click back to get to the forum again. I can only get rid of it by closing the tab in Safari. It always seems to happen when I’m on my iPhone. I haven’t tried a different device yet. I don’t see why this issue seems to happen so frequently.