Everyone seems to be missing the question in my post.
Why does this site seem to be so predisposed to this happening? I am no tech guy at all. And I don't understand the process of running a site like this, but I look at this empirically and I see these problems nowhere else but here???
Because the owner makes money off the advertisements and isn't going to shut down his income stream. We complain, it gets ignored, and life goes on.
Everyone seems to be missing the question in my post.
Why does this site seem to be so predisposed to this happening? I am no tech guy at all. And I don't understand the process of running a site like this, but I look at this empirically and I see these problems nowhere else but here???
Because the owner makes money off the advertisements and isn't going to shut down his income stream. We complain, it gets ignored, and life goes on.
Sorry, but that's a touch cynical.
Re-directs are the bane of online advertising, and multimillions of dollars are spent within the industry yearly to combat it. I absolutely hate them, and I get rid of them whenever I can.
That's the thing, it's not always something within our control. Sometimes it's cellular networks (so only customers of ATT or Sprint, etc. are targeted). Sometimes it's individual wifi networks. Sometimes it's regional. Sometimes it's intrusions into major advertising networks including Google, AOL, and the like. Sometimes it's only mobile users, or Safari, or Firefox.
What you will notice is that rarely is it anything but contained. If it was sitewide (and rarely it has been), I can track it down and nuke it. But you'll notice that normally it is a handful of people, and that often one subset of users have it and other subsets do not.
I am on today on my laptop, PC, iPhone, a borrowed Mac, on various wifi networks, home and out and about, hardline, and on cellular. I have had zero redirects today.
Later tonight I will get my hands on some Android devices and try again.
Believe me, we are anything BUT pro-redirects.
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine
If it helps, I will only get the redirects when on my android phone. Galaxy 8 or 9 I think. It comes in swarms. Once you start getting them, it bad, and hits hard like you were personally targeted. There is no purpose in sticking around when that happens. I have trouble even staying on site long enough to try to log out. Other days, like today, its calm. I don't recall even one redirect today. When it is bad, there seems to be no way to even alert you to the problem, Ric. By tablet and wifi, I have no issues. But I use that method a lot less than by phone. I do not come here by PC at all.
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the only real difference between a good tracker and a bad tracker, is observation. all the same data is present for both. The rest, is understanding what you're seeing.
No problems with my Galaxy tablet or phone but I am using Ghostery for a browser (blocks advertising trackers), the only issue I have with Ghostery is that it sometimes blocks linked pictures that are posted.
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Everyone seems to be missing the question in my post.
Why does this site seem to be so predisposed to this happening? I am no tech guy at all. And I don't understand the process of running a site like this, but I look at this empirically and I see these problems nowhere else but here???
Because the owner makes money off the advertisements and isn't going to shut down his income stream. We complain, it gets ignored, and life goes on.
Sorry, but that's a touch cynical.
Re-directs are the bane of online advertising, and multimillions of dollars are spent within the industry yearly to combat it. I absolutely hate them, and I get rid of them whenever I can.
That's the thing, it's not always something within our control. Sometimes it's cellular networks (so only customers of ATT or Sprint, etc. are targeted). Sometimes it's individual wifi networks. Sometimes it's regional. Sometimes it's intrusions into major advertising networks including Google, AOL, and the like. Sometimes it's only mobile users, or Safari, or Firefox.
What you will notice is that rarely is it anything but contained. If it was sitewide (and rarely it has been), I can track it down and nuke it. But you'll notice that normally it is a handful of people, and that often one subset of users have it and other subsets do not.
I am on today on my laptop, PC, iPhone, a borrowed Mac, on various wifi networks, home and out and about, hardline, and on cellular. I have had zero redirects today.
Later tonight I will get my hands on some Android devices and try again.
Believe me, we are anything BUT pro-redirects.
See, there's the an answer that makes sense. More info than I have had about how some of these things affect some and not others.
But, what I don't understand is why this site is so prone to it compared to pretty much every other site I visit?
Ha- I was going to start this very thread. After I clicked off the Silverado ad again. Never bought Chevy and it is making sure I never will.
When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are something to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honors are something to be ashamed of . Confucius
I'm getting them from another phone co that spells like this VER*ZON. For quite a while I was getting them from Ama*on and Wal*art.
No place else, just here and at times they are unstoppable and make the site impossible to visit. If Rick makes money on that kind of shiit I think it sucks......
