Mobile ads behaving badly, the May 15 update (report here)


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I have emailed all three partners that deliver mobile ads and received a response from our main partner.

 

We have done the following:

  • Our partner has a redirect 'detection' script that attempts to flag those ads (I already have received reports from them on this)
  • The redirects almost always come from a 3rd party ad partner (called passback ads)
  • Two of the three ad partners have had their campaigns paused
  • The main partner can now only deliver mobile ads 

They are convinced that they are able to detect and block redirect ads, but they admit one or two might slip through. But it has to be noted that none of the reported bad ads have come from our main partner.

 

You can help by (from today) reporting with as much info as possible any such ads that do redirect via mobile, what I'll need is the following:

  • The country you are connecting to Neowin from
  • The name on the ad (what is it advertising?)
  • The link where you are redirected to
  • A Firebug type report is better, but difficult on mobile, I know.

I'm very sorry that this is happening, the ads that do this violate the terms of advertising and it isn't something we allow or want, as you may know we have never had popups/unders, full page redirects or ads that redirect to 'crap apps' on some mobile store.

 

The only thing we can do is continue to report them, but I'm hoping we have now blocked the ad partner who isn't filtering these ads properly.

 

Thanks in advance.

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The ads on my Android without AdBlock are RIDICULOUS. In Firefox I get redirected by a MOBVERTISING link and can't even go back. The homepage is fine, but when I click a link it all goes downhill. It sometimes opens a Play Store link or sometimes opens a webpage that I can't go back from.  Chrome takes me to a page that beeps and I can't go back from. 

 

I'm headed to bed now, but can give more info tomorrow. 

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The ads on my Android without AdBlock are RIDICULOUS. In Firefox I get redirected by a MOBVERTISING link and can't even go back. The homepage is fine, but when I click a link it all goes downhill. It sometimes opens a Play Store link or sometimes opens a webpage that I can't go back from.  Chrome takes me to a page that beeps and I can't go back from. 

 

I'm headed to bed now, but can give more info tomorrow. 

Please do, I need as much info as possible.. did you get automatically redirected or did you click on the advert to get to the Play Store link? (this is important) we only have one advertiser handling the ads now, so it's easier to track down.. but names and even a screenshot of the ad would really help me.

 

I worry about all those unregistered guests that don't report the ads Guests can report ads here (please do!) https://www.neowin.net/contact/

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Yep same here on my iPhone got redirected via mobvertising to several other pages which finally landed on a gambling site. Closed the page and reopened and got redirected again to the appstore to a gambling app. Can't even log into my account as the redirection is almost instant.

 

Note I didn't click any clicks.

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Same behavior as limok.

 

Last night I could get to the front page, but couldn't an hour ago while I was out.  Now that I'm home again, I can't get it to happen.  I'll try to grab screenshot and URLs.

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I've reported a more detailed description of a 'bad ad' just now.. (via Twitter) will report back with what they say.

 

Domains reported: ads.mobvertising.net and ip.prizefun.co.uk

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Cannot even open neowin homepage on mobile safari without getting redirected to the App Store

Same here. It takes a few try's before I can finally read the front page without being redirected and having the App Store app open.

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Just logged into this forum just to complain about this. It's ridiculous. Can't even browse the main page on safari without it redirecting me to the App Store. Please fix it.

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Given how much of a pain mobile ads have become, I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that they be disabled completely. The whole thing appears to be a neverending game of what-a-mole and it keeps ticking off more people than ever. It shouldn't require a constant stream of input from users to get it right.

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Given how much of a pain mobile ads have become, I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that they be disabled completely. The whole thing appears to be a neverending game of what-a-mole and it keeps ticking off more people than ever. It shouldn't require a constant stream of input from users to get it right.

This. Happened all day again for me too. This is ridiculous.

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Yes exactly, When Im on my nexus 6 and i try to go to neowin main. I am redirected right away to the play store to download some stupid game. Seriously. Fix this mess!!

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I've disabled mobile ads again, will continue to investigate but it's clear that regulation isn't very good for what should just be inline ads!

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