PhilStarbucksSilkySkills Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 (edited) I've hidden a bunch of tit-for-tat, "who's the troll?" type posts. It's boring. Knock it off, please. You also appear to to have hidden a post that confirmed that I'm not the only one being redirected to "lemode-mgz.com" on this forum. Owtb is being spammed. Do you know what is going on? Edited January 9, 2015 by PhilStarbucksSilkySkills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie_J Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 You also appear to to have hidden a post that confirmed that I'm not the only one being redirected to "lemode-mgz.com" on this forum. Owtb is being spammed. Do you know what is going on? I haven't. Was it posted in this thread? Thanks for raising it; we'll look into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I'm also having the same problem on both Chrome and IE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilStarbucksSilkySkills Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 Firefox for me. Not tried the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 What do we do about it?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie_J Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 What do we do about it?! Not sure yet. It appears to be an issue that has popped up on a number of forums. We'll look into it. How often does it happen? Does it happen when a certain ad pops up at the top of the page? If so, which one(s)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Not sure yet. It appears to be an issue that has popped up on a number of forums. We'll look into it. How often does it happen? Does it happen when a certain ad pops up at the top of the page? If so, which one(s)? Not that I've noticed. It's only when clicking on a thread and usually within five or six seconds of doing so. I'd say it happens 70% of the time. No issues accessing on my phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilStarbucksSilkySkills Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 (edited) It happens everyttime I navigate on a thread page for me. Unless I quickly press the X button in firefox. Edited January 9, 2015 by PhilStarbucksSilkySkills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Here are the facts: This is a known bad redirect ad and the Google Malevertising (!) team are on the job - it's taking longer than anticipated. There is no harm being done, it's just inconvenient and disruptive to the OWTB experience. OWTB isn't the only site, any site with GA installed may experience these redirects. In the meantime, I'm surpressing the top level domains for each known bad redirect. It may or may not work - please bear with us while this is sorted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Just realised this wasn't happening anymore and hasn't for a few days. I'd imagine it was all sorted as per Rummy's message so cheers for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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