Getting redirected on iPhone again, post Safari clear out

jsteele
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iPhone Redirects to Appstore

In this example of a redirect, the flow of connections went like this:

1) pubads.g.doubleclick.net
2) ad.turn.com
3) 300x250.net
4) 300x250.net
5) 300x250.net
6) tracking.crobo.com
7) ads.ad4game.com
8) adtrack.king.com

Adtrack.king.com redirected to the Appstore.

All requests and responses for each step are included below:

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Anonymous
It happened to me three times today, all on an iPhone. Twice to the app store and once to this site: https://king.com/?advertisedAppId=33
jsteele
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Anonymous wrote:It happened to me three times today, all on an iPhone. Twice to the app store and once to this site: https://king.com/?advertisedAppId=33


King.com is the culprit. I've alerted Google and I've also tried to block that address from being served (don't know if that will work or not).
Anonymous
I just got re-directed 3 times from family! Once to App Store, once to kochava, once to adds.addstore.something I didn't catch. This is after I cleaned out safari!
jsteele
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Yesterday I tried to block the advertiser that caused the redirect and also provided my research above to Google. Last night, Google asked me for more data. This morning I got redirected one time and then made another tweak aimed at blocking the advertisers that provide the redirects. Since then (about 8 am), I haven't been able to get a redirect. That is about an hour of browsing the site.

If anyone gets a redirect from now on -- after 9 am on Friday, August 7 -- please let me know. If you got redirects before that time, it is not necessary to let me know.

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Anonymous
jsteele wrote:Yesterday I tried to block the advertiser that caused the redirect and also provided my research above to Google. Last night, Google asked me for more data. This morning I got redirected one time and then made another tweak aimed at blocking the advertisers that provide the redirects. Since then (about 8 am), I haven't been able to get a redirect. That is about an hour of browsing the site.

If anyone gets a redirect from now on -- after 9 am on Friday, August 7 -- please let me know. If you got redirects before that time, it is not necessary to let me know.


3:10pm. Redirect on my iPhone just like the first on you described in the first post.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:Yesterday I tried to block the advertiser that caused the redirect and also provided my research above to Google. Last night, Google asked me for more data. This morning I got redirected one time and then made another tweak aimed at blocking the advertisers that provide the redirects. Since then (about 8 am), I haven't been able to get a redirect. That is about an hour of browsing the site.

If anyone gets a redirect from now on -- after 9 am on Friday, August 7 -- please let me know. If you got redirects before that time, it is not necessary to let me know.


3:10pm. Redirect on my iPhone just like the first on you described in the first post.


Me too. 3:40pm.
Anonymous
Redirected just now. To draft kings of some game on the App Store. So frustrating.
Anonymous
Redirected just now to App Store, last redirect in the chain was https://king.com/?advertisedAppId=33
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Redirected just now to App Store, last redirect in the chain was https://king.com/?advertisedAppId=33


And again from http://c.afftrx.com/?s=1420659&tid1=bdcd6393f9e106c362fd&subid=5674
jsteele
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Just an update. I did a complete capture of traffic for the last redirect I experienced and have provided that to Google. The issue has been escalated within Google. Ironically, my wife just suffered a redirect from another website while browsing with her iPad. So, this is not limited to DCUM.

I explicitly blocked king.com early today. Therefore, it looks like the blocking rules aren't working. Google's engineers just gave me another suggestion for blocking which I will implement now.

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Anonymous
I was just redirected to an ad site and came here to complain, but I guess it isn't your doing?
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I just heard from Google that they were able to correct this issue. Please let me know if it occurs again, but hopefully it won't be a problem now.

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Anonymous
Still happening to me (home now so plan to update IOS on e pics are backed up.)

Setting Safari to Block cookies = always (vs just third parties / advertisers) helps a lot, though of course that means good cookies like the ones to check in to a flight via email don't work (took me a while to figure out that's why I was getting a 'session timeout' error). Butone just snuck through a bit ago so not a complete fix.

And I seem to be getting sent to a broader array of a ads too. Will pay attention to what they are, but they've looked different and Gilt was one of them.
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