Redirected automatically to App store

[Anonymous]

You deserve a beer

[Anonymous]

Yay! Thank you, Jeff!

[jsteele]

Google engineers are trying to reproduce the redirect by visiting pages on our website, but not having any luck. If you get redirected, please report it so that we still know that it is still happening.

[jsteele]

It has been 23 hours since a redirect was reported (and I reported that one. It's been about 30 hours since anyone else did). Has anyone been redirected or is it case closed on this one?

[Anonymous]

OP here - I haven't had this happen to me today - so I hopefully say, cased closed.

[Anonymous]

Still happening to me on my iPad mini

[Anonymous]

Getting worse redirect many times , it says safari can not connect then it goes to kochava , something else goes by then to the App Store. When I close the App Store and go back to Safari it jumps back to kochava then to the App Store. If I hit the favorites fast enough I can get past the pop up the says safari can not open the page.
Any help , it is an iPad.
Thanks

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Getting worse redirect many times , it says safari can not connect then it goes to kochava , something else goes by then to the App Store. When I close the App Store and go back to Safari it jumps back to kochava then to the App Store. If I hit the favorites fast enough I can get past the pop up the says safari can not open the page.
Any help , it is an iPad.
Thanks

I'm having trouble finding a solution to this. For your immediate situation, I think you should clear the cache of mobile Safari. If you are not sure how to do that, let e know. Longer term, I'm trying to figure out how to block ads from kochava (which is an ad network, not an advertiser). But, I haven't found an easy way to do this and will have to contact Google support.

[Anonymous]

This just happened to me. I'm using an iPhone.

[Anonymous]

This has been happening to me on iPhone. I've been able to exit the App Store and get back onto dcum but it's happened at least 10 times - lyft, draft kings etc

[Anonymous]

This happened to me yesterday. iPhone user.

[Anonymous]

I got an automatic redirect to the lyft app today.

[Anonymous]

Is it possible that this is adware? I Googled "Glispa adware" and there are several hits. Just an idea-- I didn't click on the links.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Is it possible that this is adware? I Googled "Glispa adware" and there are several hits. Just an idea-- I didn't click on the links.

Whatever is doing the redirects is being snuck into the ad system in violation of the ad networks' policies. It is definitely adware. Tracking this down is problematic because users don't get the same ads. Those of you who tend to get redirected are being targeted for some reason and those of us who aren't getting aren't being targeted. While we use Google Ad Exchange as our primary ad server, Google itself serves ads for other networks. Those network, in turn, accept ads from additional network and advertisers. It looks like those providing the ads are able to feed them to low tier networks which send them up the chain. So, trouble shooting it is a real pain. It is even more difficult in that I can't even get the ad that causes the problem in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Do you want to know when it happens, or is that information not helpful? Just happened to me in Family Relationships, on an iPhone.