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Redirects and Ads
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Yes, kept happening to me for a few days earlier this week. Got redirected to a site called "Survey Center Germany" (I'm based in Frankfurt, Germany). Made the forums literally unusable for me for a few hours on Wednesday and Thursday. Cleared my iPhone's cache and everything but of no avail. No problems to report on my end since yesterday though
The thread's going to be locked -- there have been two other threads already and it's probably the worst malicious ad attack since Era started, literally rendering the site unusable on mobile -- but they want us to discuss in the ad thread to keep the reports in one place. https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-ad-reporting-thread.60928/page-10
There are no admin responses yet but a mod posted there.
There are no admin responses yet but a mod posted there.
Seriously. Its getting ridiculous. Can't even report the ads doing it. I thought this was rectified weeks ago.
I'd subscribe to Era to have no ads, but I'd prefer Era fixing the fact I get redirected on mobile a couple times per week. Not into paying just to avoid scams.
Yeah. Happening to me today, scam ads, it's so bad it makes mobile unusable, it redirects after a few seconds every time. I was using android chrome, so I'll look into another browser.
Brave is an advertising company, like Google. They want to block other advertisers to sell their own "good" ads in place.
Who well never mind what i said. I guess for now it's better to just get ad block on Chrome mobile.
Nah, Brave's privacy policy and built-in toolkit is far better than Google's. Brave Rewards can be completely turned off.
If you want to stick with a Chromium browser use Brave rather than Google.
Brave still recommended here https://www.privacytools.io/browsers/
You're not wrong but it's unwinnable. Ad networks are shady full stop. Even when the site itself is reputable. It's nothing but whackamole. The site staff isn't allowing this. Shirt just gets injected and a back and forth between ad provider and them have to happen.
I'd rather a reasonable fee and kill ads for a site I browse daily forever.
While this is true, as a number of people have mentioned both here and on the old place, virtually no other site no matter how popular has this level of malicious mobile takeover ads crop up occasionally.
So either it's something that specifically targets Era, and I didn't think we'd be popular enough for that to happen, or it's something about the particular ad network and delivery mechanism chosen by both forums.
I get this on Chrome on Android, but content blockers for Safari mobile manage to block this type of redirect.
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