Browsers getting hijacked by redirection ads. Help?

Factual Questions
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Using both Chrome and Dolphin browsers when I go to Listverse and Cracked I open an article and soon after it’s hijacked with some scam offer and I have to close the browser and try to get back to the article. I’ve tried using incognito mode and it still happens. These are the only 2 sites it seems to happen in consistently.

I’ve done scans on the phone with Lookout and everything seems OK. The sites are big enough and well known enough I know they aren’t the issue. The browsers, same. Been using Dolphin for about 10 years. Any advice with this? Thanks

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BTW, it’s a Galaxy S8 and if course the ads are always for Galaxy owners.

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Ublokc Origin works on Firefox for Android, if that’s what you’re using. Otherwise there are other adblockers for cellphones that you could use.

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Thought the adblockers were built into chrome and Dolphin. I’ll try Firefox again but for some reason I gave that up. But worth a shot. Thanks

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From the OP, if you’re doing this on a phone, the phone hijackers are frickin’ insidious, much worse than the computer-based hijackers.

The best you can do on your phone is to turn off pop-ups, but sometimes that doesn’t work.

There’s a lot of sites, like cracked, that I just can’t view on my phone because its hijacked every time.

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Don’t use Chrome, ever. Google spyware is built in.

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Dolphin has one, but you have to turn it on in the settings (and maybe even download something to make it work–I can’t remember), and it’s not as good as uBlock Origin on Firefox. (The latter is what I use.)

I’m dismayed that Chrome isn’t stopping these. They’ve been talking a lot about baking at least that level of adblock into the browser itself. Any ads that hamper your ability to use your device are supposed to be being blocked.

Seems they still have a long way to go.

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Yes, it only happens on the phone. I’ll check for any Dolphin extensions. Thanks for all the advice guys.

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If dolphin don’t do the trick Opera for android has a built in ad-blocker (and also VPN) - I’ve switched to this from chrome for most of my browsing on phones, due to among other things this issue.

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Adguard will block most of these. Uses the same blocking lists as Ublock, but works across all apps (including Chrome):

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So what?

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Chrome (Google) makes their money from ads. Why would they want to block them?

In fact, the next version of Chrome (Partial release on July 8th) is changing APIs in a way that will severely cripple existing Adblockers. They claim that they are doing this because Adblockers slow down the browser, but this has been shown to be untrue by various tests. (In fact, by blocking ads, they often speed up browsing.) Despite these tests. Chrome is insisting on distributing theis adblock-killer version. So I’m looking for a new, non-Chrome browser to switch to.