Getting automatically redirected to garbage advertisements on Android Chrome

Hey there, when I go to any giant bomb link on my phone, the site loads, then immediately redirects to an advert like:

I've tried some other sites and Giant Bomb seems to be the only one affected.

I've had that happen a few times on my phone as well. I was gonna post about it, but then forgot. I should probably note that I'm not signed in on my phone, if that makes any difference.

I've had this happen frequently as well if I am not logged in on my phone. I'm assuming it doesn't happen when I'm logged in because of the whole no ad thing.

I'm getting this on Chrome for Android as well even when logged in.

Yeah, I'm not logged in on mobile, but don't get the chance to.

Having the same problem for Safari iOS. The ad auto redirects to some free app download page everytime I try and view the site. Banner ads are totally cool but this is a bit of a pain in the butt.

This is Vinny internet quick look levels of awful.

I'm honestly surprised anyone even goes to the mobile site. The pop up ads are so bad, I feel like I've accidentally hopped over to buzzfeed.

Similarly, on the iPhone I've been getting a lot of ads that automatically redirect to the app store and basically get you stuck in there.

This is a growing trend with ad-networks on mobile. It's incredibly annoying.

Thanks for the report, guys - we'll get that ad shut down.

Thanks for getting that ad removed @wemmick!

Still getting ad redirects on safari on iPhone, makes it real hard to even log in.

I wish chrome would allow for addons that disables specific javascript. this redirection crap on websites is a nightmare.

@wandzat: Where are you located?

@edgework: Connecticut

@wandzat: Oh, I assumed you were going to say somewhere in Europe. Can you send me a screenshot next time you see this?

BTW: I'm from Meriden :)

I'm in alaska and woke up this morning to these ads after trying to browse the forums. One literally came up of a girl taking a load to the face. Seriously guys. Kill these types of ads. I don't wanna wake up to dicks, ever.

@travisrex: Sorry. I've filed a report. There's little we can do to prevent this kind of thing, especially on Android. Its easy for some scumbag to buy ads on ad networks for Android and they feed though a maze of providers that leads to us. They usually don't last too long since someone in the chain tends to catch them eventually. Still its easy for the scumbags to create another account and start again.

I know ad revenue is important (hence me opting out of that economy where I can via subscriptions/memberships for the writing/entertainment/criticism I read/watch to pay for it a different way) but...

surely at this point there are ad networks which sell slots that are for images you serve up to make money. Fixed size slots that are filled by your server with jpeg or png only from the ad server (with your server requesting which image to slot in per-user). No right to executed code on the client side machine. These redirects only seem to work because javascript or similar as considered just part of the stuff an advert contains. And mobile browsers have less well developed "evil j/s trying to destroy your life" scrubbing protections switched on (or added mobile hooks for ease of use, failing to realise how they'd be abused).

But really this has to end, right? When Apple bring an official ad-blocker to their platform, we can't keep going like this. Go back to the old days - remember the late '90s, remember using server-side php to query the ad server and inject the right advertising image into the page before passing the html to the client? I know I do.