Try #4: Free pair of shoes from Running Warehouse for computer literate person who can help us solve mobile redirect problem

I'm not getting redirected on my iPhone so I can't test this but Ghostery prevents redirects, is available in the app store, is way easier to use, and will tell you where the redirect attempt came from. Also highly recommended for Firefox

Do you have any more information as to what type of phones it's happening on? My iPhone doesn't get them anymore and I don't run any third party stuff.

It's almost exclusively iphone w safari now and ipads I think. I thought it was solved because I haven't seen it on android in ages.

Racket wrote:

I'm not getting redirected on my iPhone so I can't test this but Ghostery prevents redirects, is available in the app store, is way easier to use, and will tell you where the redirect attempt came from. Also highly recommended for Firefox

Thanks for the tip but I think now this is almost exclusively on iphone/safari problem so it looks like ghostery isn't an option.

You may be overexhausting yourself at this point. You may have eliminated the problem BUT it'll take a while for the browser cache to update on certain user devices. While the browser may render NEW posting information it may store cached "assets" to load frequented pages more quickly. Assets are more definitively images/CSS/JS and ads in the present day are JavaScript snippets calling asynchronous functionality.

If you have isolated Apple's safari web browser as the sole remaining problem this might indeed be your present issue. In which case, patience.

Did you try restarting the phone?! ;)

It just happened to me i use samsung. It happens once in a blue moon compared to how bad it was. Literally first time in 2 weeks, so ur doing something right.

RejectRunner wrote:

It just happened to me i use samsung. It happens once in a blue moon compared to how bad it was. Literally first time in 2 weeks, so ur doing something right.

Agreed. It used to happen to me every few threads, but now it happens only once every couple weeks.

Been out of the loop, so don't know if anyone's said this yet, but use uBlock Origin. (Make sure uBlock Origin, not uBlock) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin . It's cross platform, open source software (so not owned by an advertising company like Ghostery is) that blocks third parties on a website. Search it in your browser's addons/extensions. You can configure it in advanced mode to specifically block some ads and trackers, but not all (letsrun gotta make money right?) Very light on cpu so it won't stall you down, and easy to use, basically install and forget.

This would likely cost you at least $5,000 to solve if you hired someone to do it for you, yet you just want someone to solve it for a free pair of shoes?

Wejo, you don't want to admit it, but the problem is probably the advertisements are toxic to this site and its users. It is true that you are far from the only site that uses "industry standard" toxic advertisements that make page loads super slow, hog bandwidth, mess with the screen, track users, who knows probably try to install malware. The solution is to install ublock origin.

wejo wrote:

It's almost exclusively iphone w safari now and ipads I think.

I thought it was solved because I haven't seen it on android in ages.

Define "ages". It happened on my android earlier this month (November).

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Did you try restarting the phone?! ;)

Also, did you try jiggling the handle?

not worth it wrote:

This would likely cost you at least $5,000 to solve if you hired someone to do it for you, yet you just want someone to solve it for a free pair of shoes?

this.

shame on the capitalist pigs, trying to exploit their customers.

wejo wrote:

It's almost exclusively iphone w safari now and ipads I think.

I thought it was solved because I haven't seen it on android in ages.

Racket wrote:

I'm not getting redirected on my iPhone so I can't test this but Ghostery prevents redirects, is available in the app store, is way easier to use, and will tell you where the redirect attempt came from. Also highly recommended for Firefox

Thanks for the tip but I think now this is almost exclusively on iphone/safari problem so it looks like ghostery isn't an option.

I have an iPhone 7 and I get redirects on the Google Chrome app, however now it happens less frequently than before

I got redirected twice on the forum pages, one said I won a $1,000 gift card and the other said I won a free iPhone.

I'm using an iPhone on Safari.

I'm not trying to tell you how to run your business, but maybe you should find a professional instead of looking for a rando on the message boards that's willing to work for a single pair of shoes.

might be wejo wrote:

I'm not trying to tell you how to run your business, but maybe you should find a professional instead of looking for a rando on the message boards that's willing to work for a single pair of shoes.

Okay, well you should definitely consider telling them how to run their business because that is solid advice!

I installed Charles Proxy and browsed a while on my iPad but no dice. Starting down the path of setting it up to use cellular and while that doesn't look too terribly hard, I'm calling it a night. If I'm bored again another night maybe I'll give it another crack.

Seeing the sheer number of ad requests flood the logs was incredible (but really not much different from most sites out there...even ones without visible ads). Gotta pay them bills.

$.02 Theory wrote:

If you have isolated Apple's safari web browser as the sole remaining problem this might indeed be your present issue. In which case, patience.

It happened a couple of days ago while I was in the google app so it's not safari only