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Redirect to the App Store when browsing on my iPad

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jwinslow said:
Someone needs to figure out how to track redirects from web ads since the offending ad is no longer visible given the relocation.
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If you have lightning-quick fingers you may be able to capture the redirect URL in the address bar, as it usually shows up for a fraction of a second before it opens up the App Store, but if you miss it, you'll end up with a useless generic ad URL.

Like with Sepia, this is starting to make the site near unbearable some days on my iPhone. The main offender still seems to be Game of War: Age of Fire, and roughly half the time it redirects to the App Store an ad for the game is in the the top spot, but sometimes it isn't, so it probably isn't that specific ad causing the redirect.
 
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Hmmm...hadn't thought of checking the history. I'll try to remember to do that next time it happens to me. Maybe someone with a jailbroken device would have more luck tracking down the offender than a vanilla iPhone user like me?
 
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Please report when this redirect is active on Safari/iOS. I've seen this before on my iPhone though it's been awhile since the last time I encountered it.

One way to diagnose is (when you know it's happening) go to a desktop and visit BP with Chrome. Hit F12 to enable the developer console and set the device spoofing UA to iPad 3/4 and then view the network session log.

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That information would be HUGELY helpful. With that sort of info we can often have action taken the very same day.

Sometimes the hardest thing for Clarity is just recreating a report of a bad-ad. He has to be able to see it to track it. So as often as those suffering (and we're SO sorry when this happens) bad ads are able to nail down the full chain, we can take immediate action.
 
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scarletmike said:
I'm starting to think the main offenders finally had word get around enough to stop being a bad ad actor since it has been a while since the last time I got a redirect but still see their ads in the banner.
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That's how these Mark Mays work. They shove shit through, know it's going to be squashed, but will take what they can get until it is. Then they wait a bit and do it again, and they adapt enough that they stay just barely ahead of the ad networks who can really only be reactive.

I love the people responsible behind stuff like that, I hope they never get rectal parasites.
 
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