https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:06:19 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2030039 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:52:23 +0000 mrbee 2030039@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. bird: Ugh sorry about that, signing into the admin now to track this down. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2030038 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:51:15 +0000 mrs. bird 2030038@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I hadn't been redirected in a while, but it just happened again :( I took a screenshot with the address on it in case it's helpful</p> <p>[attach=2301/15/nieo1f.337x600.image.jpg] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2018911 Sun, 11 Jan 2015 02:04:03 +0000 snowjewelz 2018911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks Mr. Bee! </p> <p>It's been bad but I've been able to make s few posts right now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2018873 Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:40:52 +0000 MamaCate 2018873@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for the update! I have had or intermittently but today was awful with constant redirects on both the iPhone and iPad this afternoon, to the point where I gave up. Seems a little better now. Glad to hear you are working on addressing it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2018864 Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:18:52 +0000 turquoisemama 2018864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: thanks, I haven't been redirected today. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2018811 Sat, 10 Jan 2015 22:12:38 +0000 Mrs. Confetti 2018811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Thanks Mr. Bee. It got basically non-usable today for me on my phone. Really appreciate all you're doing to remedy the issue. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2018807 Sat, 10 Jan 2015 22:11:27 +0000 mrbee 2018807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>UPDATE: It doesn't look like Google has been able to fix this issue yet. :(</p> <p>So in the meantime, we turned on a feature which lets us manually review all of the Google ads that run on Hellobee - so that we can make sure that there aren't any ads causing redirects. So far we've reviewed about 1k ads, and found 2 ads causing redirects (and blocked them). There are 60k total ads, so this could take a while.</p> <p>We'll continue to go through these ads manually over the weekend, while Google does their thing on their end.</p> <p>Thanks for your patience everyone! And sorry about these issues... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2017602 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 19:16:16 +0000 artsyfartsy 2017602@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes it's been bad today for me too! Sometimes I can't read threads at all. I get redirected no matter how many times I try to open a thread or page. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2017598 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 19:14:17 +0000 mrbee 2017598@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. tictactoe: According to that link above (and reports we've gotten), it does seem to happen on iOS devices most often:</p> <p><a href="http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/about-those-insidious-mobile-ads-that-hijack-your-phone-and-redirect-you-to-the-app-store.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/about-those-insidious-mobile-ads-that-hijack-your-phone-and-redirect-you-to-the-app-store.php</a></p> <p>But I've had it happen to me in Chrome on my desktop now and then as well, alas... not as often though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2017583 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 19:01:22 +0000 mrs. tictactoe 2017583@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It has been bad lately. I'm on my phone, does it happen more on the mobile site? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2017457 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:40:08 +0000 Ree723 2017457@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just started getting redirected today - haven't experienced it at all in the past but every time I tried to click on a link earlier whilst browsing on my phone, I was redirected. So annoying!! Thanks MrBee for the update, hope google can get this sorted soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2017443 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:33:58 +0000 snowjewelz 2017443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's gotten soo bad! I couldn't even open the other thread! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2017440 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:32:52 +0000 autumnlove 2017440@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinpye: me too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2017439 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:32:32 +0000 erinpye 2017439@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's the worst it's ever been today. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2017418 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:19:35 +0000 turquoisemama 2017418@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jedeve: me too, seems to only be on my phone though. iPad seems okay. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2017408 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:15:22 +0000 jedeve 2017408@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Man just now I'm being redirected every few seconds. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2015266 Thu, 08 Jan 2015 13:51:01 +0000 mrbee 2015266@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: Just found this page on Google where you can report malware!<br /> <a href="https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/</a></p> <p>Update: the incidence of re-directs is down a lot, but there are still some redirects happening here and there. We've sent detailed reports to Google, and they let us know that they're working on tracking them down. Will keep you guys posted! So sorry about this... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2012233 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:57:16 +0000 birdofafeather 2012233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>what a mess! is there anything we can do directly to report a redirect so it gets more heat to get it fixed? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2012223 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:53:55 +0000 daniellemybelle 2012223@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Really appreciate this detailed update! Sorry y'all are dealing with this but hopefully Google will fix it soon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2012181 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:41:16 +0000 sorrycharlie 2012181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: oh good! I haven't been on as much the last few days thanks to this cranky, sick kiddo, so that could be why I haven't seen many either, lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2012174 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:37:32 +0000 mrbee 2012174@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sorrycharlie: Glad to hear it! It's definitely gotten better, but has still been happening (at least, to me). We heard today that it should be fixed soon though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2012169 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:36:27 +0000 sorrycharlie 2012169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>thanks for the update! I haven't had any redirects on my computer - or mobile, actually, in the last couple days. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-update-on-redirection-issue#post-2012158 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:32:26 +0000 mrbee 2012158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For the past month, a number of users have reported that they've been redirected to various ad pages while browsing Hellobee. It's been happening to me too, and it's been driving me crazy - especially when you keep hitting redirect after redirect while just trying to browse the site!</p> <p>Google confirmed today that this is an issue on their end, and that a "bad ad" managed to sneak into their ad network. Or as they explained it in their forums: "This [lemode-mgz.com] ad is a known bad ad and our malvertising team is actively working on blocking it across the network as we speak"<br /> <a href="http://goo.gl/xxq6L1" rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/xxq6L1</a></p> <p>If you click on that Google forum link, you can see a bunch of other sites have been dealing with the same redirect problem. I google'd "lemode-mgz.com redirect", and there are a bunch of reports from more sites too:<br /> <a href="http://saintsreport.com/forums/f2/lemode-mgz-com-redirect-336368/" rel="nofollow">http://saintsreport.com/forums/f2/lemode-mgz-com-redirect-336368/</a></p> <p>This is a huge industry-wide issue that is affecting lots of ad networks. There's a good writeup of the issue on pajiba.com:</p> <p>&lt;&lt; In short, this is how it works: We the publishers enter into a relationship with an ad network. In addition to their own ads, those ad networks run ads from other third-party ad networks. When an advertiser inputs an ad, the ad network checks to ensure there are no spam or malware or phone hijacking ads. However, once the ad has passed inspection, some of these shady motherf**kers come in and add the hijacking code into the ad. They’re hard to detect because there are scores of third-party ad networks within each ad network with hundreds of ads being delivered.</p> <p>In other words, they sneak these ads into legitimate respectable ad networks (even Google’s own ad network), against the policies not only of the ad networks, but against the policies of the Apple/Android/Google App stores, and even the clients disapprove of these ads (King, the maker of Candy Crush — where I’m redirected more than any other place — is also trying everything they can do to prevent the ads).</p> <p>Ad networks do eventually locate the ads and remove them, but there’s a lag time in which users can be affected. That hurts the end-users’ experience, and makes publishers look bad because it seems as though we are trying to profit off of a stupid Candy Crush redirect. We are not. We hate them just as much as you, and maybe more, because we not only have to deal with trying to get rid of them, but also embarrassment when someone on Twitter or Facebook calls us out for annoying ads. We don’t benefit from these ads. We are not paid any extra amount of revenue; in fact, we lose a visitor every time these redirects take them away from our site. &gt;&gt;</p> <p><a href="http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/about-those-insidious-mobile-ads-that-hijack-your-phone-and-redirect-you-to-the-app-store.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/about-those-insidious-mobile-ads-that-hijack-your-phone-and-redirect-you-to-the-app-store.php</a></p> <p>The "good news" here (if there is any) is that as this issue has grown in scope, ad networks are being forced to prioritize a fix. We actually tested out another ad network last November or so, but there were even more problems with redirects (if you randomly got sent to the App Store last year, that's what happened). So we canceled the other ad network, and went back to Google. They've been great at managing the issue, until the holiday issue when this started to happen.</p> <p>We are going to do our best to stay on top of this issue. We can't eliminate these bad ads ourselves, but we can continue to report them to Google - and also, explore other ad networks to see if they've found a way to eliminate redirects. We'll continue to stay on top of it and keep you guys looped in.</p> <p>Thanks for your patience, and I'm hopeful that the redirects will stop soon! </p>