HA! oops, meant Firefox. Or as I call it, Foxface.

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I just installed AdBlock Plus and the redirects stopped completely.

Of course so does all site revenue to pay for the server. :( (since this started we are down 50%)

I'm blocking the ads as I find them, unfortunately the issue is on Google's end and they haven't done crap to fix it yet.

Another day or two and I should have them weeded out. And hopefully Google will get off its ass and fix the hole in their code.

I don't know what's going on but it has gotten worse in the last few days. I turned ADP off and now I get an attempted redirect on every refresh or anytime I change from one page top another. FireFox is disallowing the majority of it. I checked the box for "Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page" in Options/Advanced/General. For the most part I get a bar on the top of the page that tells me a redirect was prevented. I did have 2 or 3 redirects succeed within the last half hour or forty five minutes.

But at least the ads are still showing down at the bottom of the page. They really are not obtrusive enough to warrant ABP.

It's strange because I have never seen one but then again adsense keys off each user individually. So Google has decided to serve you the ads that are causing the issues while it has decided to show me ads for trips to Vegas (what i am seeing right now).

Do you have another browser you don't use normally? If so, you can empty out all cookies on that browser and see if the frequency stays the same. It shouldn't unless the ads are targeting certain IP based on geography. (which would be very odd indeed)

Wait? You have ABP turned on and the ads at the bottom are still showing? Ok that is bizarre. Well, that's good news for the site.

I turned it back off. The "disable ad blocker" message is about the same size and the same delay as the "FireFox prevented this page from automatically redirecting to another page" message.

I have FF, Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE installed. I can dick around with those and see what happens.

Not seeing the redirect in IE, ads displaying as normal, no ad blocker.

Same thing for Opera.

Safari is blocking ads with no ad blocker running. Could be a setting in the browser. I barely use it. Not seeing the redirect in Safari, ads not displaying, no ad blocker (that I know of), seeing your "ad blocker" message at the top.

Not seeing the redirect in Chrome, ads displaying as normal, no ad blocker.

So FireFox, which is what I almost exclusively use for this site, is the only browser that redirects for me.

Cool that makes sense. It looks like it is keying off cookies in your one browser. Just like if you search on "Goat Pr0n" you should get ads for animal husbandry sites... these ads have been keyed to something you searched on or went to. That explains why some people are getting killed by these lately and others have no clue what you guys are talking about.

I actually was able to replicate the problem myself by previewing the ads in our Adsense control panel(which is on Google's site). That's how I knew it was completely unrelated to CP itself. The bitch is that when I find a bad ad using that method, I have to click the block button SUPER FAST or the damn thing redirects me out of Adsense before I can. Slowly but surely I am getting them all, obviously the one that is killing you hasn't been found yet.