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Originally Posted by Yontsey
I don’t know if this applies here or not but I’ve always been curious and maybe someone has an answer. Certain websites, whether when I go there in safari on my iPhone or via a link in Tweetbot, will take me to the page and then will redirect me to a spam page like a fake Amazon or something of the sorts. The original link isn’t spam though. It’ll be like a local news affiliate news article or something of the sorts but it’s pretty common and makes trying to read the article useless. Any ideas?
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If I understand correctly, this is an effect of the way ads go through networks, who in turn sell them to the actual websites hosting them. That is, a site like The Verge doesn't really control which ads its displays, and the network that does it for them doesn't always do a great job vetting them in advance.