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Weird, when I go to the link, the page immediately redirects to https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=1..... https://guce.advertising.com/co
by esaym 7y ago
Weird, when I go to the link, the page immediately redirects to https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=1..... https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=1.....
Even if I try to just go to techcrunch.com/, same thing. I only notice this because *advertising.com is in my host file on my router so instead of redirecting, I just get a "server not found" error page in firefox.
If I open a private tab, techcrunch.com loads fine. Looking at the network tab in the dev console when trying to load techcrunch.com seems to show that no redirect is made, just that techcrunch.com automatically becomes guce.advertising.com... Have I been pawnd?
- geocrasher 7y agoSounds like adware. Check your browser extensions.
- esaym 7y agoI don't see anything. I'm running on debian and never used any extensions.
- esaym 7y agoOk, nm. It is techcrunch that is doing it. I had my network dev console filtered to only show ajax request. Showing all request shows techcrunch returning a 307 (redirect): https://i.imgur.com/sZM9btp.png https://i.imgur.com/sZM9btp.png
- jdormit 7y agoYup, I can confirm. techcrunch.com redirects to guce.techcrunch.com, which redirects to guce.advertisting.com, which then redirects back to techcrunch.com. This only happens on the first page load (presumably due to cookies being set for the guce.techcrunch.com domain). The redirects are really fast, seems like the only reason @esaym noticed is that they are blocking advertising.com via their hosts file which prevents the final redirect back to techcrunch.com. Welcome to surveillance capitalism...