PetaPixel is a free-to-read blog, so we rely almost entirely on advertising to stay in business. In the past couple of weeks, however, readers have been reporting intrusive and annoying ads that redirect you to other websites while reading PetaPixel on mobile.
No, these are not intentional. We never allow things like pop-ups, pop-unders, ads that auto-play videos, or ads that redirect elsewhere.
Shady redirect ads have become a major problem in the online publishing industry over the past few years, and they’ve invaded many of the largest ad networks, including Google (which PetaPixel uses). There are many news articles about the problem from 2014, 2015, and 2016.
We’re working hard with Google to figure out which ad buyers are inserting the redirect ads, which are against Google’s policies, but tracking down the sources can be a very difficult process. For now, we’re disabled the Google ad network entirely to hopefully clear up the problem while we attempt to kill it at the source.
So, if you read PetaPixel on your phone or tablet, you may be seeing some blank ads in the near future as we work on this. We’re super sorry if you’ve experienced the redirect ads yourself — just know that we do our best to respect our readers and would never serve you that type of thing in order to make an extra buck.
Thanks so much for reading PetaPixel and sticking with us through this!
from PetaPixel http://petapixel.com/2016/02/07/readers-reporting-auto-redirecting-ads-on-mobile/
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