Redirecting to ads again?

[Princess Jes]

Is anyone else getting redirected to other sites again?
I've had it happen twice in the last hour, sent to King.com game site

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Is anyone else getting redirected to other sites again?
I've had it happen twice in the last hour, sent to King.com game site

I'm not having any problems.

 

[Tarheel girl 1975]

This just started happening to me when I'm using my iphone. I end up having to close out of Safari completely and re-open. So annoying.

 

[Princess Jes]

Very annoying.
And the ad for whatever movie it is that The Rock is in (San Andres?) that pops up is driving me crazy

 

[MKMomma]

It is happening to me too! How can we stop it?

 

[CarolynFH]

I've had the App Store open spontaneously quite a lot recently, in addition to being redirected to other websites or getting pop ups stating that I've won something, that won't close until I've clicked through several pages. This happens only when I'm reading the DIS boards.

I always close out Safari when I'm finished reading the boards. I'm concerned that I might have to stop reading them.

 

[Alice K]

Its happening to me too. It goes through a number of redirects before going to an advert or a popup asking me to open the app store. Sometimes it happens when I click through to a forum thread, sometimes it happens a short while after a board threadlist has opened. At first I thought I was just clicking on the banners which are slow to load and therefore appear under where I'm about to click, but I'm fairly sure it's not that. I'm logged in and running the latest Chrome browser on Android 5.0, I don't have a desktop to do any more analysis on.

 

[bumbershoot]

YES! It just happened to me 7 times *in a row*.

On my iphone I get sent to the app store about once every 2, maybe 3, days. Just enough for it to not stick in my memory. But just now it was CONSTANT.

 

[Ambear]

This has been happening to me a lot more lately too. I don't quite like it lol... I know ads make money, but I'm not sure where else this site could choose to put ads, it's so full of them. Luckily the ads don't show up as forum posts I guess.

 

[foiled]

These redirecting ads make the forum unbrowsable on iOS, certain sub forums cause a redirect ad every time you click on it.

 

[CarolynFH]

Today for the first time, in the middle of reading a post (hadn't even clicked on anything) it redirected to Uber's website and I had to close Safari to get out of it. I may have to give up reading the DIS. Dreading withdrawal. (And I'm highly unlikely to use Uber, which has been the greatest transgressor in opening the App Store and now redirecting Safari.)

Edited to add: I tried using Chrome but instead of opening App Store or redirecting, it would shut down and have to restore itself. Just as annoying.

 

[Flossbolna]

I am having huge issues on my iPhone for the last couple of weeks as well. The iPad and the mac are ok.

It happens mainly on the DCL board and the subforums under it.

 

[Princess Jes]

My issues have stopped now that they're not advertising for San Andrés.
I wonder if any of the mods are reading this?

 

[Princess Jes]

@WebmasterCorey
@WebmasterAlex

 

[TestingH2O]

This has just started on my phone in the past week or so. The Uber ads are the most frustrating because when you hit the back button, it doesn't just take you out of the ad, it takes you to the previous screen. It's almost like a pop up but there is no x to click. No problem on my computer, just my phone.

 

[jenthern]

Happening constantly to me. Uber as well, same as pp.

 

[Ntrain]

Same with me. The app does not function at all. Now it is impossible to read the boards on the iphone. The Uber add constantly pops up. No problem on the computer and the Ipad.

 

[Kalliope]

It is happening to me too and it is irritating and annoying. Not only am I being redirected to the app store, my browser is also being hijacked!

It only happens on my phone.

 

[momof2n2]

It's happening on my phone from the DCL boards persistently today...

 

[Prose]

I was just wondering if others were experiencing the same thing - the number of redirects to the App Store has jumped dramatically in the past week. The interesting thing is that the last time the redirects happened at the thread level - this time they are also happening at the board level (that is, trying to open the DCL board as a whole, as well as some individual threads). Only seems to happen on my iPhone.