Report of Rogue Advertisements Forcing Pop-ups

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  1. Glenn Stok profile image97
    Glenn Stokposted 6 years ago

    Per the steps required to report Rogue Ads, I completed the answers to the following five questions that Matt Meyer posted and requested by Christy Kirwan. 

    1) A clear screen shot of the ad(s) that was on the page at the time of the pop up (ad on HubPages).

    I can’t get this because the pop-up does not let me click back to the page. It blocks the back function.

    2) The URL of the page on HubPages on which you see the ad

    Here are a few hubs I was reading when it occurred:

    https://owlcation.com/stem/Tomato-fruit-or-Vegetable

    https://healdove.com/eye-care/Eyes-and-Cataracts

    https://owlcation.com/stem/origin-of-nothingness

    https://pairedlife.com/friendship/How-t … ay-Goodbye

    https://pairedlife.com/etiquette/why-fr … ont-listen


    3) URLs of the the ad(s) from #1 (i.e., the landing page you would
    go to after clicking one of them. Not a HubPages URL).


    It forces me into the landing page. See the URLs in item 4 below.

    4) A screen shot and/or URL of the pop up

    Note that each time it happens, it goes to a different URL, but the pop-up is always the same - as you can see in the screenshots I emailed to the team over the last few days (each time it happened).

    Here are some pop-up URLs that I accumulated.

    rewardsrbs.top
    rewarddeficiencysyndromemaycontributeto.top
    gifthellofresh.top
    gifthulk.top
    rewardassignmentdidnotsucceed.top
    rewardsrusearlyblackfriday.top
    rewardstickerchart.top

    5) The clickstring

    I can’t find the click string for the ads because they are not known until the pop-up occurs, and it completely replaces the page I was on. In addition, it blocks the back function making it impossible to click back to the page.

    Also note that this has only been happening on my iPad. I never had it occur on my desktop.

    1. Mike Hardy profile image86
      Mike Hardyposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      I was able to replicate the issue on the first URL (Tomato) on Safari. Was not able to replicate pop up issue in Chrome.

    2. Christy Kirwan profile image90
      Christy Kirwanposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you Glenn, I really appreciate you doing your best. I'm not sure if this will be enough for us to track down these ads, but I'll pass this info along and we'll give it our best shot.

      1. Glenn Stok profile image97
        Glenn Stokposted 6 years agoin reply to this

        Thanks Christy. I wish I could do better, but this rogue ad has a way of disabling the back function so I can't go back to the page I was on when it happened. So there is no way to analyze the ads on the page when it happened.

        On more thing I just realized - it may not really be a popup. It is just made to look like one. It is more like a redirect, since the new URL appears.

  2. MizBejabbers profile image88
    MizBejabbersposted 6 years ago

    I haven't had this to happen yet on HubPages, but it has annoyed me frequently on Facebook and other websites that I visit. Could these be hackers or is this just more Google annoyances?

  3. Glenn Stok profile image97
    Glenn Stokposted 6 years ago

    For what it’s worth, this never happens while in the forums, only on hubs—and only after several minutes while reading. It even happened when I was leaving a comment after reading someone's hub.

 
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