Within seconds of visiting hearthpwn.com on my iphone (in safari), a white ad box pops up covering most of the screen. Behind it around the edges I can see the hearthpwn.com site. The only interactable element at that point is the "Close" button in the ad, which then loads an unrelated site. The "Back" button is available but the "next prior" site is whatever I had been viewing when I originally put hearthpwn.com in the address bar. When I try again to go to hearthpwn.com, the same thing happens. I am never able to reach a point where I am interacting with hearthpwn.com normally.
This started happening a week or two ago but it was intermittent -- probably to do with which ad from the pool got loaded. Today, it's consistent.
Here's the text of the current ad (which smells like an attempt to steal my google credentials -- even more so at the site it hijacks me to, prod.yygoshopping.com).
Congratulations!
Google User!
You've been selected as a winner for the free $1000 Walmart Giftcard, iPhone X 256G or Samsung Galaxy S8!
Please click OK to claim your prize before we give it away to somebody else.
Shudderwock means driving a clown car in circles around your opponent while he swings his sword at you. Half the time he chops you and your car to pieces. The other half you park on his legs and 40 clowns come out one by one, trampling him to death.
Update: I tried again and successfully navigated to the Forum home. But then the same ad came up and hijacked me to the above site again. I'm submitting these posts on my laptop, but do most of my hearthpwn.com user activity on mobile. (Which is now down to zero.)
Shudderwock means driving a clown car in circles around your opponent while he swings his sword at you. Half the time he chops you and your car to pieces. The other half you park on his legs and 40 clowns come out one by one, trampling him to death.
Hey there, we blocked this ad network-wide earlier. If it pops up again, can you get us the url it sent you to so we can blacklist it? Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
Thanks Flux, I'll update this thread if/when I see more like it.
There isn't a way to block the tech it uses to hijack us away to a different site?
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Shudderwock means driving a clown car in circles around your opponent while he swings his sword at you. Half the time he chops you and your car to pieces. The other half you park on his legs and 40 clowns come out one by one, trampling him to death.
Thanks Flux, I'll update this thread if/when I see more like it.
There isn't a way to block the tech it uses to hijack us away to a different site?
It's so much more complicated than that, unfortunately. If we could, it would have already been done ='(
There are some good browser improvements though coming down the line which I know are going to help screw these bad ads over at the browser level. Not sure if that would apply in this exact scenario, but anything is better than nothing.
Within seconds of visiting hearthpwn.com on my iphone (in safari), a white ad box pops up covering most of the screen. Behind it around the edges I can see the hearthpwn.com site. The only interactable element at that point is the "Close" button in the ad, which then loads an unrelated site. The "Back" button is available but the "next prior" site is whatever I had been viewing when I originally put hearthpwn.com in the address bar. When I try again to go to hearthpwn.com, the same thing happens. I am never able to reach a point where I am interacting with hearthpwn.com normally.
This started happening a week or two ago but it was intermittent -- probably to do with which ad from the pool got loaded. Today, it's consistent.
Here's the text of the current ad (which smells like an attempt to steal my google credentials -- even more so at the site it hijacks me to, prod.yygoshopping.com).
Congratulations!
Google User!
You've been selected as a winner for the free $1000 Walmart Giftcard, iPhone X 256G or Samsung Galaxy S8!
Please click OK to claim your prize before we give it away to somebody else.
Shudderwock means driving a clown car in circles around your opponent while he swings his sword at you. Half the time he chops you and your car to pieces. The other half you park on his legs and 40 clowns come out one by one, trampling him to death.
Whizbang Strategy Reference -- update complete for Rastakhan's Rumble!
Update: I tried again and successfully navigated to the Forum home. But then the same ad came up and hijacked me to the above site again. I'm submitting these posts on my laptop, but do most of my hearthpwn.com user activity on mobile. (Which is now down to zero.)
Shudderwock means driving a clown car in circles around your opponent while he swings his sword at you. Half the time he chops you and your car to pieces. The other half you park on his legs and 40 clowns come out one by one, trampling him to death.
Whizbang Strategy Reference -- update complete for Rastakhan's Rumble!
Hey there, we blocked this ad network-wide earlier. If it pops up again, can you get us the url it sent you to so we can blacklist it? Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
Jesus, this is making the site unusable.
http://adv.dsptracking.com/warning/E0ud4SGIm7f6D1lzios/e12ZJqd0HTM.html?u09h=J68Xw1nvSu1Z08c5QtDJmfWzt87
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Thanks Flux, I'll update this thread if/when I see more like it.
There isn't a way to block the tech it uses to hijack us away to a different site?
Shudderwock means driving a clown car in circles around your opponent while he swings his sword at you. Half the time he chops you and your car to pieces. The other half you park on his legs and 40 clowns come out one by one, trampling him to death.
Whizbang Strategy Reference -- update complete for Rastakhan's Rumble!
Some more scam redirect i am getting on mobile since like a few weeks ago:
http://bestlucky.site/prize/[*long string of attributes here*]