Ad doing App Store hijack on iPhones -- PLEASE PROVIDE SCREEN SHOTS
 

One of your ad providers is doing App Store redirects, where it opens the App Store to some crap app. These types of ads are really, really uncool. Apple is fixing it in ios8 but someone should look into this because it means your mobile browser is on a blank page, ie you're no longer seeing FT and have to go back, and it's beyond annoying


ETA: here's the ad sever, happened again just now and I grabbed the URL doing the redirect. http://trck.ad-serving.co/jump/ and the app they are peddling is Shadow Kings

Happening again. I've gotten hijacked over to the Lyft app in the App Store repeatedly in the last day, including twice in the last 3 minutes. :mad:

I get it's an Apple thing, but surely FT has some control or influence over its advertising partners and what kinds of ads may be presented on this site?

Oh, come on, that's true but FlyerTalk could switch to using reputable ad providers. This site has some of the most obnoxious adverts of any site on the Internet.

Ok seriously, this has happened 5 times in the last two minutes. Ironically, once as I opened this thread...

Frankly, I imagine FlyerTalk probably gets more money using sketchy ad providers than they would by sticking to legitimate, reputable ad providers.

Seeing it from their perspective, I don't totally blame them - it's a business decision - they see extra revenue. I have to ask, though, extra revenue at what cost? Is the FlyerTalk content compelling enough that everyone who wants it will just put up with the borderline malicious ads to get it? Or does FlyerTalk lose more traffic due to them than they gain in added revenue per visit? That's the question.

I have just been redirected to some dodgy fake 'flash download' page.

I can provide the whole link, but it came from 'adsby.bidtheatre.com'

Sorry, just realised I posted to the wrong thread - this is a browser hijack, not app store

That's even worse. App Store hijacks are annoying, but those fake flash downloads are malicious. Same root cause though: allowing dodgy advertising partners to deliver ads on this site. FT clearly needs to clean up its advertising.

Flyertalk is being almost unreadable lately. I keep being redirected to dodgy website while surfing from iPhone.
The only way to disable these ads to redirect is to disable JavaScript but then many website won't worl properly.

FT should prevent ads with JavaScript and that would solve all of these issues

Or, switch to a more legitimate ad provider that filters the ads they allow for spammy rubbish. But that wouldn't pay as well, I imagine.

Back again.

Game of War - Fire Age
Some sort of Vegas slots app

When I get hijacked every couple page views, the result is that I stop viewing FlyerTalk. I can't imagine I'm alone in this, and I can't imagine that's a desirable outcome even if (or especially if) the primary driver is $$$.

ETA: Jelly Splash

Same as above. Awful and unusable.

Editing this post I got bounced over to the App Store again. I'm out of here.

Just happened on my ipad now. It is "paint monsters" which ever buyer that works out to be.

Site is unusable on iOS. Please fix this garbage.

We've shut down a part of the ads that we believe is causing the app store hijack. Please let us know if it continues.

Paul