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1,238 540 December 5, 2023 at 07:38 PM
I tried to click the read the details on a Frount page deal

I was met with this full page forced add redirect




note the empty add box on top right





I clicked back... and was met with another forced redirect after a few seconds




its being launched from the ad box in the upper right hand corner. After getting the page to actuals page to load I'm get MacAfee ads

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12-06-2023 at 06:46 AM.
12-06-2023 at 06:46 AM.
Quote from the_neon_cowboy :
I tried to click the read the details on a Frount page deal

I was met with this full page forced add redirect




note the empty add box on top right





I clicked back... and was met with another forced redirect after a few seconds




its being launched from the ad box in the upper right hand corner. After getting the page to actuals page to load I'm get MacAfee ads
thanks for the report. i shared it with the ad team so they can squash it.
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phoenix-wright
12-11-2023 at 07:47 PM.
12-11-2023 at 07:47 PM.
Thank you (repped)! This has been driving me crazy! It's happened three times always on slickdeals but I've been scanning my computer and router and locking down my browser trying to figure out where it's coming from. I finally was here to report the issue and am glad someone beat me to the punch. Please fix this slickdeals!
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12-11-2023 at 09:01 PM.
12-11-2023 at 09:01 PM.
Quote from phoenix-wright :
Thank you (repped)! This has been driving me crazy! It's happened three times always on slickdeals but I've been scanning my computer and router and locking down my browser trying to figure out where it's coming from. I finally was here to report the issue and am glad someone beat me to the punch. Please fix this slickdeals!
thanks for the update. the ad team did make some tweaks but it seems things are still slipping through so i gave them a heads up.
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ranoobu
12-12-2023 at 10:49 AM.
12-12-2023 at 10:49 AM.
I'm getting the same thing today.

Here is the last one I got while on the front page:

pcsecurityrepair.live
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12-13-2023 at 10:02 AM.
12-13-2023 at 10:02 AM.
Quote from ranoobu :
I'm getting the same thing today.

Here is the last one I got while on the front page:

pcsecurityrepair.live
thanks for the report they did make some further tweaks yesterday afternoon. do you know approximately around what time you saw it?
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JameyJ
12-13-2023 at 06:31 PM.
12-13-2023 at 06:31 PM.
Me too. For the last 5 hours or so
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JameyJ
12-13-2023 at 06:58 PM.
12-13-2023 at 06:58 PM.
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Me too. For the last 5 hours or so
Just happened to me again about 45seconds ago
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banzaiwolfe
12-13-2023 at 06:58 PM.
12-13-2023 at 06:58 PM.
Just got this forced popup ad at 8:55pm CST
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JameyJ
12-13-2023 at 07:34 PM.
12-13-2023 at 07:34 PM.
This happened again 42 seconds ago (me counting to myself)
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KingUltra
12-14-2023 at 05:00 AM.
12-14-2023 at 05:00 AM.
LOL wtf , It just happened to me right now as I am reading this report.
I thought I got something installed while browsing some "questionable" websites.
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leefy20
12-14-2023 at 08:12 PM.
12-14-2023 at 08:12 PM.
Got these yesterday and today, really bad look to be having people using this site getting redirected to dangerous stuff like this.
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12-14-2023 at 09:06 PM.
12-14-2023 at 09:06 PM.
Quote from JameyJ :
Me too. For the last 5 hours or so
Quote from banzaiwolfe :
Just got this forced popup ad at 8:55pm CST
Quote from KingUltra :
LOL wtf , It just happened to me right now as I am reading this report.
I thought I got something installed while browsing some "questionable" websites.
Quote from leefy20 :
Got these yesterday and today, really bad look to be having people using this site getting redirected to dangerous stuff like this.
Thank you for taking the time to report that this issue is still happening for you. I'm sorry that we haven't been able to fix this yet. The ad team is actively investigating this, has malware scanning running on the ads and is working with the ad companies to figure out how this is happening and stop it. We don't allow these kinds of ads and we don't want members to have this kind of experience when visiting the site.

If you do continue to see this, please feel free to post about it here or email into [email protected] so that we can let the ad team know.
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KingUltra
12-14-2023 at 09:45 PM.
12-14-2023 at 09:45 PM.
I got it again just now 9:45 PM PST
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leefy20
01-02-2024 at 05:05 PM.
01-02-2024 at 05:05 PM.
Still getting these as of Jan 2 2024, nice work slickdeals.
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