Is it just me (and something wrong with my phone?), or is Hearthpwn infested with tons of sketchy pop-ups? Almost every time I click a link or button on the site it triggers a dangerous looking pop-up, such as the ones I've attached to this thread. As a result the site has become almost unusable for me.
This mainly happens in Android Google Chrome on my phone which is freshly factory reset, and the problem still persists. T-mobile is my network carrier, I'm connecting directly through their cellular service, not through my router. If I use an ad blocking browser like Brave then the problem goes away, but wondering why the problem exists to start with and how to correct the root problem.
Got the same, any page of this site on mobile was redirected to a scammy ads I had to reinstall my mobile adblocker because this site was becoming unusable.
It is redirect pages to obvious scams or other stuff like that (while on mobile).
Usually the site is ok, but in some days it's unberable.
Happened to me this morning, multiple times while trying to access a specific thread from mobile, towards a national-themed scam different from the ones in the screenshot.
How do you add an image from mobile? I'm getting pop ups claiming to be Aldi and to spin a wheel for competition. I don't mind adverts, I understand websites dont run on good wishes but these pop ups are frustrating as you cant easily clear them.
This really scammy behavior could be the reason for me to avoid this site in the future. I hope the problem is taken seriously by the administrators.
Same for me, I can't browse this site on my android chrome browser anymore without being harrassed by pop ups. It's really annoying, I sometimes have like 4 or 5 pop ups at the same time !!! (bestluckysite, samsung.ns... Obvious scams....)
This really scammy behavior could be the reason for me to avoid this site in the future. I hope the problem is taken seriously by the administrators.
Let me give you some basic insight into how ad networks work globally and why they are plagued by such problems.
Ad network exists. Sites place Javascript on them to load ads and make money.
Ad network allows anyone to run ads without anything beyond some basic level of verification.
That person who signed up to the ad network to run ads can now post anything they want.
Person puts up a "bad ad" or multiple. They propagate through the network and display to users.
Users of websites of the ad network see the ads and report them to the website owners.
The website owners get in touch with the ad network to tell them they've dun goofed again and allowed nonsense through.
Ad network removes the bad ads, preventing anyone else from seeing them.
You're able to get around a lot of the garbage ads by not allowing really cheap ad campaigns from showing up on your site, but it isn't perfect. There are times when we notice an uptick in bad ads which we elevate our minimum bids for ads to help shelve crap which hurts our income because then ads may not even be displays but its done to protect users.
I have been informed there was a massive, global "ad attack" the other day when the ads shown in this thread and was described as the "2nd largest malvertising attack ever recorded" and was industry wide - usually things aren't this bad.
So yes, this is taken seriously, and when people give me the correct info, I can actually report it to our ads team who will then make sure the ads get removed. It sucks that there aren't better verification processes in place before ads can be put out into the wild but that's sadly not something I, or anyone here can change since its an industry wide thing.
When people respond saying "there was a pop up" or "i got redirected" and dont include a screenshot or a url they ended up at, I then have to ask them for more information. It seems like 80% of the time they never come back with additional info so those bad ads can't be removed.
What craigrs84 did was the correct way to report bad ads and I'm happy we were able to report that problem so quickly because of it. Be like craig, if you find a problem with an ad, it can even just be that the ad itself has become misplaced, tell us and give us good info so it can be resolved upon initial report.
Is it just me (and something wrong with my phone?), or is Hearthpwn infested with tons of sketchy pop-ups? Almost every time I click a link or button on the site it triggers a dangerous looking pop-up, such as the ones I've attached to this thread. As a result the site has become almost unusable for me.
This mainly happens in Android Google Chrome on my phone which is freshly factory reset, and the problem still persists. T-mobile is my network carrier, I'm connecting directly through their cellular service, not through my router. If I use an ad blocking browser like Brave then the problem goes away, but wondering why the problem exists to start with and how to correct the root problem.
Is it just me (and something wrong with my phone?), or is Hearthpwn infested with tons of sketchy pop-ups? Almost every time I click a link or button on the site it triggers a dangerous looking pop-up, such as the ones I've attached to this thread. As a result the site has become almost unusable for me.
This mainly happens in Android Google Chrome on my phone which is freshly factory reset, and the problem still persists. T-mobile is my network carrier, I'm connecting directly through their cellular service, not through my router. If I use an ad blocking browser like Brave then the problem goes away, but wondering why the problem exists to start with and how to correct the root problem.
Thank you for the screenshots. Sending them over to the ads team to get them removed.
I know them too. They appear in all kind of fashions on my mobile android. Absolutely annoying and forcing me to close the tab completely.
THats why things like adblockers exist
Got the same, any page of this site on mobile was redirected to a scammy ads I had to reinstall my mobile adblocker because this site was becoming unusable.
It's not really ads only.
It is redirect pages to obvious scams or other stuff like that (while on mobile).
Usually the site is ok, but in some days it's unberable.
Happened to me this morning, multiple times while trying to access a specific thread from mobile, towards a national-themed scam different from the ones in the screenshot.
Me too
This really scammy behavior could be the reason for me to avoid this site in the future. I hope the problem is taken seriously by the administrators.
How do you add an image from mobile? I'm getting pop ups claiming to be Aldi and to spin a wheel for competition. I don't mind adverts, I understand websites dont run on good wishes but these pop ups are frustrating as you cant easily clear them.
Same for me, I can't browse this site on my android chrome browser anymore without being harrassed by pop ups. It's really annoying, I sometimes have like 4 or 5 pop ups at the same time !!! (bestluckysite, samsung.ns... Obvious scams....)
Let me give you some basic insight into how ad networks work globally and why they are plagued by such problems.
You're able to get around a lot of the garbage ads by not allowing really cheap ad campaigns from showing up on your site, but it isn't perfect. There are times when we notice an uptick in bad ads which we elevate our minimum bids for ads to help shelve crap which hurts our income because then ads may not even be displays but its done to protect users.
I have been informed there was a massive, global "ad attack" the other day when the ads shown in this thread and was described as the "2nd largest malvertising attack ever recorded" and was industry wide - usually things aren't this bad.
So yes, this is taken seriously, and when people give me the correct info, I can actually report it to our ads team who will then make sure the ads get removed. It sucks that there aren't better verification processes in place before ads can be put out into the wild but that's sadly not something I, or anyone here can change since its an industry wide thing.
When people respond saying "there was a pop up" or "i got redirected" and dont include a screenshot or a url they ended up at, I then have to ask them for more information. It seems like 80% of the time they never come back with additional info so those bad ads can't be removed.
What craigrs84 did was the correct way to report bad ads and I'm happy we were able to report that problem so quickly because of it. Be like craig, if you find a problem with an ad, it can even just be that the ad itself has become misplaced, tell us and give us good info so it can be resolved upon initial report.
I’m glad it wasn’t just me getting these, and hopefully the problem is resolved soon.
Ok I still dont know how to post screen shot from mobile but the URL starts..
http://goodluckday.site/prize/uklucky/
With a load of stuff after the URL that's identifying location, browser, device etc.
Yesterday, I got a ton of them as well.
Thanks for the explanation Flux! Here are a couple screenshots of the pop-ups I've been seeing lately on mobile.
Praise Rang.
Same happening to me and I’m sure I am hitting “block” instead of “allow” but it still goes to this site http://goodluckday.site/prize/luckyus-ad/lpw.php?....
On my PC now so I can up load an image.
I don't get these on my PC, just my phone.
I've bumped the report on the above site several of you have reported. I'm quite disappointed it was not handled quickly.
I’ve been getting one recently on my iPhone. Will try to post pic here if I can figure out how on my phone.
Edit: Based on the other posts maybe I can’t post the pic on mobile. My pop up is also the url that starts with goodluckday.site
Big same, every damn day. It's gotten to the point i just don't come here on mobile.
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