Better Call Saul ad redirecting forum links to doubleclick

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#1  Edited By mortface

When I'm not logged in and I go to http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/

Then none of the links work anywhere on the page, and everything redirects to the Netflix ad. See the screenshot? Cursor is hovered over a forum title, but the URL in the address bar is to doubleclick.net

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This only seems to affect the forum pages, all the other pages seem to work for me. I'm using the latest version of Chrome on Windows 7. Same happens for me on Firefox.

Is this just my machine being weird, or is this affecting anyone else?

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Something tells me you've got yourself some adware

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#3  Edited By AlexW00d

@tonetta777 said:

Something tells me you've got yourself some adware

No I got the exact same thing happen to me, and I can assure you this PC is clean.

Paging @rorie and @edgework and @jslack

E: I gonna go out and say this ad won't affect Americans - you guys don't even have the show on Netflix yet right? - so I don't know if any of you will be able to duplicate it.

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DoubleClick isn't really spyware or adware from what I gather, but it is an annoying tracking cookie and I'd recommend that you get rid of it. It's very widespread.

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Sorry about that. Looks like we have a sleazy ad provider coming though the network. I reported it.