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Before It’s News Mobile Users Experiencing Redirect Ads, Only You Can Fix It, Here’s How




(N.Morgan) Many readers have contacted Before Its News in regards to the constant redirects they experience while browsing the site. This redirect is the result of the App store's questionable tactics of redirecting you to where they want you to go, rather than enjoying the content of the site. There is an easy way to fix this glitch.

So these redirects aren't coming from BIN, but rather the App Store.

For many weeks now, mobile users on both iOS and Android have been encountering a problem where visits to certain websites and apps have automatically redirected them to the platform’s app store to download various games.


The issue involves errant ad networks, which should be blocking these shady ads, but aren’t. Meanwhile, mobile consumers simply trying to use an app or read an article are treated to a poor user experience.

Online advertising hits a new low with ads that automatically launch the App Store or Google Play. You may have noticed websites that automatically launch the App Store (usualy to Clash of Clans or Candy Crush). Pretty annoying since it breaks what you were doing and you have no control! Don't necessarily blame the website. It is the ad network the site is using to pay for everything that is causing the problem. Seems like a new trend is to use javascript in the ad to send you itunes URL redirects to lame apps. I have no doubt that eventually a blocking solution will appear but until it does... you need to block "hastrk2.com" on your router.

This breaks the URL chain for the ad without effecting anything else.
These auto re-directing ads have been affecting both Android and iOS platforms, on both apps and websites, and come in through various third-party networks. The ads move around, too, making them even more difficult to track down and block. It’s unknown at this time which networks have been involved to date, but the “auto-clicking” ads could have a source that gets changed after the ad is first approved, which would make them hard to spot, it has been suggested.





Now to correct this, there's an easy method so you can be redirect free, while browsing your favorite websites:

Disabling Automatic App Updates

Turning off automatic app updates can be a bit tricky to find in the settings, but follow these quick steps and you’ll be done in no time.
Open up the Settings app.
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Tap on iTunes & App Store.
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Under the section titled Automatic Downloads, you’ll see an item called Updates.
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Tap on the toggle switch to turn it off so that it goes from green to gray. If it’s already gray, then the setting is already changed and there’s nothing you need to do further.
Another tip is to:
Block Bad Ad Networks from Your Network
Rather than killing all javascript, we just want to block the ones enabling the bad ads. To do this we need to examine the content sources of the serving website. We are looking for code coming from sources that aren't the content server. This can be difficult to trace, but luckily Jérôme Segura frommalwarebytes.org has already done this for us. They identify the domain hastrk2.com as the originator of the redirect ad. The domain belongs to Adapp Solutions and is hosted by Amazon Web Services (IP: 107.23.171.42). Adapp Solutions has been flagged by several people for spam leading to App Store. They also use the domain mobileapptracking.com.


Prevention
Blocking the bad ads will definately make your life better, but nothing prevents Adapp from using other domains to get around your blocks. You don't want to constantly have to add domains to your black list. People have suggested that when you see a redirect to the App Store from an ad, you should get the free app, rate it one star and write that the devs support questionable ad practices. This makes sense; no ad company works for free. The devs must be paying them something, so they should feel some pain for the practice. The downside to that strategy is that it looks like a sucessful ad campaign if their downloads go up.

Definately don't pay money! You may think buying the app will stop offers for that app, but they don't. At best you encourge the practice and they will just switch the lame app they offer you. Block the ads instead!






References:


http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/shady-app-install-ads-are-automatically-redirecting-mobile-users-to-app-store-google-play/


http://www.forthisproductions.com/tutorial/2014/6/4/block-webmobile-ads-that-redirect-automatically-to-the-app-store






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