Ads causing redirects and malware

[ProspectorJay]

Long time lurker, first time poster. Sorry that it's to make a complaint.

Some of the ads that get served up by your advertising service are auto redirecting to sites that prompt users to install malware through social engineering. I'm only having this problem on android devices. I've tested this several times on different clean devices. I can't point to the specific ads that are causing this since they hijack the browser before any graphics load. I cannot reproduce this on my Windows machine, so I suspect the scripts are attempting to target android devices specifically.

This started happening two days ago. I'm not going to suggest you turn off ads, but perhaps you could notify your ad service. In the meantime, I won't be visiting tnet on mobile devices, which is 80% of my browsing.

 

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[Loco-Digger]

just make sure you log in and the pop up ads go away

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Are you logged in when it happens? I use mobile phone and tablet as well as pc to access TN every day and have no problems with ads when logged in.

 

[ProspectorJay]

This happens before I get a chance to log in on mobile. Because I go back and forth between devices throughout the day, the one I'm not using gets logged out.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I can be on line with my smart phone, tablet and pc at same time. I never have to log back in with my phone. Are you using IPhone or Android...

 

[Ammoman]

I like the advertisements. They have pictures of scantly clad women with big treasure chests!

 

[ProspectorJay]

I use multiple devices but only have the issue on two different makes of android tablets. One is a test platform and gets reset to factory regularly. This only started happening two days ago. I suspect there's a bad ad being served that's causing it.