Topic: Invasive Website/Ad

Still happening to me...I'm using the Wii U browser and the ad keeps hard-freezing my Wii U...

I'm now getting directed to that mgz site for the New 3DS threads.

Same here, I'm being taken to another website. Unbelievable. I always turned off Ad-Blocker for nintendolife but it's going back on.

From what I've read online it's not unique to NintendoLife as several sites have been affected by it over the past few days. Whatever it is it seems fairly aggressive so I'm going to have to turn adblock on until you guys sort this out.

Make sure you guys clear out your cookies and check your extensions. Just as a precaution...

Looks like there's a small arrow (triangle) on the very bottom of that which you can click on to hide it completely, so it's relatively non-invasive.

I refreshed about 7 or 8 times on the home page, and finally ran into that ad again. It's still there -_-

I haven't got that ad problem on Nintendo Life but I have been experiencing it on Push Square.

Im not having this problem, but im getting scared...

I'm using Safari on my Mac and it's doing this a lot. It's become very hard to navigate the forums.

Still having the problem (actually got re-directed twice just trying to click into this thread).

(I'm also getting that annoying pop-over bar on the side with twitter/facebook/etc buttons)

BTW, i'm also using Chrome.

Yeah I am getting that annoying pop up bar on the side as well. I too am using Chrome.

(Is using a phone to visit the site and nothing has happened)

That sounds incredibly annoying. Hopefully it will be an easy fix for Ant.

I did some research and this is something affecting any sites with Google Ads.

It's very irritating because the ads are what keeps this forum and most sites running and whatever is happening in this re-direct is a clear violation of Google's policies.

I cleared my browser history and so far it hasn't been happening but it's very possible that it will start happening again.

There seems to be a few articles related to this.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/09/technology/security/super-coo...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2865297/super-cookies-can-trac...

From what I read, it's recommended to avoid using the Safari browser and iOS devices for now. Internet Explorer is said to be immune to these "super cookies" since it doesn't offer the support.

Seriously, guys, have you...done any virus checks? "Redirect viruses" are a thing. Even if Ant stopped the provider, you still might have to get rid of the malware it gave you (if there was any, but it doesn't hurt to check)...

its just a bug. it effected all users not just chrome. i noticed it happens in the later hours on here. this is the only place ive had a problem. since yesterday i havent had any more issues although it was getting worse and worse then it seemed to have stopped. let the internet police work out the kinks and it will go away soon. its not a virus guys, so you dont have to worry about that part...

Intrigued to hear the cause of this as I haven't experienced it and using Mac/Safari (UK based, is it a regional thing?).

Hey everyone. Google is aware of this issue, it's a problem in their Adsense platform which they are working to fix. It's not specific to our site and not something cause by us. I'm hopeful that Google will stop this very soon as it's affecting a lot of their customers. Apparently it can help to clear your cache in your browser, so give that a try if you haven't already.

Hopefully this will go away soon...

@antdickens My website is experiencing a similar issue, is there any way that I can let google know that my website is being affected by this issue? My web host has control over my ads so I'm not sure if I should bring this issue up with my web host or google themselves? Thanks in advance!