Good news! I found the missing link. I found the Google code that loads the Turn.com code which loads the... you know.

Not only that, but the code I found will be enough for Google to figure how to block the ads (at least I hope that is the case). So, maybe this will finally be resolved shortly.

It took over 5 hours of surfing DCUM (I know, hard work, but someone has to do it), but I finally got redirected and captured all the traffic. I am going to put all of my findings here, not so much for the edification of our users, but to help any other website admins that might be Googling this issue:

First, despite all of the traffic I have captured and all of my efforts, there is a missing link. That is the link between Google and the beginning of the chain that I can document. So, we sort of enter this adventure in progress. I worked backward to get to where I am starting.

Somehow, my browser sent a HTTP request to http://ad.turn.com/server/ads.js with a bunch of parameters attacked to that URL. When ad.turn.com responded, its response included an iframe (invisible HTML frame) that loaded content from http://www.mobileadhost.com.

That caused my browser to send a HTTP request to www.mobileadhost.com. The response to that request contained another iframe that loaded more data from http://www.mobileadhost.com.

This caused my browser to make a second HTTP request to www.mobileadhost.com. The response to that request redirected my browser to https://sevmob.com/.

Somehow, I am not sure how, my browser also made a HTTP request to http://ads.glispa.com. The response to the second mobileadhost.com request above did not say anything about glispa.com. However, the request to glispa.com contained the complete URL from the second mobileadhost.com request as it "referrer" in the header of the request.

The glispa.com request contained a redirect to http://hastrk2.com/.

The response from hastrk2.com contained redirects to the Apple Appstore: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dragon-city-mobile which attempted to load Dragon City in the iTunes store. However, that failed because I wasn't really using an iPhone.

At this point, I have blocked hastrk2.com, glispa.com, mobileadhost.com, and turn.com from serving ads to us. Turn.com is a huge service and it appears that many other services use Turn in some manner. So, I don't know what the impact of blocking Turn will be. It could have a significant on our entire ad serving function. Also, blocking it might not solve the problem. I guess we just have to wait and see.

Just got redirected a bunch of times ( I am op of the new threaded on this subject)

It happened every time I opened any thread , about 5 times yesterday, and a 4 times this morning - App Store opens ith games - something with a dragon. Will try to block it as you wrote.

jsteele wrote:Based on what I have seen in my own experience, the actual redirects to the Appstore are done by Glispa and Hstrk2. But, those URLs are never loaded directly by Google Ads. Rather, another service will get loaded by Google, which redirects to Glispa and Hstrk2. It looks like the intermediate one is called mobileadhost.com.

If you plan on using your iPhone on DCUM a lot today or tomorrow and the redirections are driving you crazy, you might try this (I haven't tried it so I don't know if it will work):

1) Go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions -> Websites -> Limit Adult Content
2) Under "Never Allow" add www.mobileadhost.com, ads.glispa.com, and hstrk2.com

You may then find yourself blocked when trying to go to other websites that are categorized as "adult", even though many won't seem to be adult to you. But, you can add them from the block page and they will be allowed from then on. Once this issue is fixed here, you can disable all of this stuff.

Thanks for the fix and all your work.

Based on what I have seen in my own experience, the actual redirects to the Appstore are done by Glispa and Hstrk2. But, those URLs are never loaded directly by Google Ads. Rather, another service will get loaded by Google, which redirects to Glispa and Hstrk2. It looks like the intermediate one is called mobileadhost.com.

If you plan on using your iPhone on DCUM a lot today or tomorrow and the redirections are driving you crazy, you might try this (I haven't tried it so I don't know if it will work):

1) Go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions -> Websites -> Limit Adult Content
2) Under "Never Allow" add www.mobileadhost.com, ads.glispa.com, and hstrk2.com

You may then find yourself blocked when trying to go to other websites that are categorized as "adult", even though many won't seem to be adult to you. But, you can add them from the block page and they will be allowed from then on. Once this issue is fixed here, you can disable all of this stuff.

Just happened again here on this thread. Glimpsa was the culprit.

I have my test set-up running, but haven't been redirected yet. Yesterday, it only happened twice with over 8 hours of frustration in between.

Anonymous wrote:Just ended up at hastrk2.com and then had a dialog box asking if I wanted to open the page in App Store.

Same here.

Happened again - got re directed to jelly splash, but when I went back to safari, dcum was still there. Was on the miscarriage thread in off topic

Just ended up at hastrk2.com and then had a dialog box asking if I wanted to open the page in App Store.

I ended up at sevmob something or other and then glispa

It also happened from the main dcurbanmom.com page -- not in the forums.

Yep. Glispa just now.

Same. On my iphone. Happened first thing yestedsy morning and not again all day, but back again today.

http://ads.glispa.com/sw/47092/CD30161/by9j1l12u74gcw4

Just happened again to me so I guess Google is having trouble with a solution too