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How to Protect Against Sneak-Redirect sites?

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MarjaE
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Often search results turn up what looks like it might be a relevant site... But as it loads, a painful/animated ad zooms in from the right, and hitting the close button triggers a redirect to another site with some kind of pain/video.

Often search results turn up what looks like it might be a relevant site... But as it loads, a painful/animated ad zooms in from the right, and hitting the close button triggers a redirect to another site with some kind of pain/video.

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FredMcD
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirect-control/ Redirect Control This add-on enables the user to allow or deny redirects from web pages. You can also create rules to allow redirects that you approve of.

cor-el
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Do you mean the close button in this ad (web page area)?

Best is always to try to close the tab via the close button of the tab or via a middle-click on this tab. If you open the results in a new tab by default via the search settings then you can easily go back to the search page if you close the tab(s).

MarjaE
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"Do you mean the close button in this ad (web page area)?"

What ad? I'm not seeing your ad.

I search.

I open one of the results, in a new tab, because I think I want to read it. Not because I want to close it.

But instead, a pain-ad swoops in from the right.

I click the close button in the ad, and it redirects me to another site with a pain-video.

Between my disabilities, and their deception to get me to the video, I'm not going to watch their video.

I want to know if there's any way to block these sites.

Here's one of the front-end sites: (I've broken the link)

http://hannah rachelkatz.com/as-a-result-all-my-hearing-was-destroyed-and-i-had-super-bad-tinnitus-for-many-years/

Hewe's one of the video sites: (ditto)

http://tinnitus -terminator.net/video/?aff_id=13352&subid=hannahrachelkatz&suid=B6ax81v6PvgIwLceRg4jAsHw-%2Cc

MarjaE
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Here's another: http://www.delices laurentiens.com/tag/mold/