Redirect to a scam website ads

[outriding]

I have no adblockers on and on a iPhone with all updates and get this every few minutes

 

[VirtualLarry]

News - A very deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild - by Project Zero

Hmm, this is alarming!!! https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-dive-into-ios-exploit.html

forums.anandtech.com

Apple devices are hardly immune to exploits...

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Same here, I’ve won about $84,000 in gift cards today. Time to give someone else a chance at winning.

 

[outriding]

This is the only website I am getting these popups on

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I won about $5,000 in gift cards trying to get here to post.
I’m sure I’ve won $200,000 in gift cards throughout today.
AT is the ONLY site this happens with
I tried Fire Fox Mobile same result
I phone 6, doesn’t happen on desktop browser (chrome) hasn’t happened on iPad yet
I don’t brows AT on the iPad often.

I’ll load the web tracer app/browser thing again to submit a log but I’d like confirmation where to send it and if I do will that person actually look at it? Using the web tracing browser is a major inconvenience

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Happening on iPad now
Installed chrome for iPad same redirect this time happened on main anadtech front page not the forums.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

@outriding a not so elegant solution is to use Firefox focus as your browser.
Appears to be made by Mozilla I’m guessing it’s reasonably secure
Been using it since last night on iPhone 6 and haven’t been redirected.
Now the bad news:
When you close Firefox focus it tends to make you log into AT forums again, it does appear to ask you to download tappa talk a little more often.

 

[daveybrat]

Future PLC owns both Anandtech and Tom's Hardware. I get that exact same spam pop-up on my Samsung S10e phone on both of those websites only. I don't get them on any other sites so it has to be an advertiser that Future has an agreement with i'd guess.

 

[outriding]

I vote for future plc hold the ad company liable to reimburse us for not getting our gift cards


But seriously. This is lostrevenue for future plc because I just don’t visit for a day or so.

 

[SHaines]

I have no adblockers on and on a iPhone with all updates and get this every few minutes View attachment 11437

This was something that was hitting all sorts of sites (not just ours). We have been able to get these ads removed from any of our sites, so you shouldn't run into it again.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Same here, I’ve won about $84,000 in gift cards today. Time to give someone else a chance at winning.

Same here!! I juist used the gift cards to pay my IRS bill, before they served me with papers....

 

[SHaines]

Please let us know if you're seeing these "ads" showing up again. It's my understanding they should not be back, so if they are, we'll need to raise this with our ad team right away.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Please let us know if you're seeing these "ads" showing up again. It's my understanding they should not be back, so if they are, we'll need to raise this with our ad team right away.

Haven’t seen any in months, thank you for addressing the problem.
I do occasionally and just did run into this problem. Blank ad takes over most of the screen, stays on screen until I refresh.
Doesn’t happen often so I rate it as an occasional minor pain.