My Blog Is Smartphone Friendly (Again)

I don’t know how many of you look at my blog with your smartphones, but I bet those of you who have tried have been having some really annoying problems doing it! For months there has been some adware redirecting my readers when they try to open up a blog post of mine. Sometimes it has been infrequent, and other times it has been really bad. My human has been trying off and on to solve this issue because she looks at my blog on her smartphone too. A few days ago when she couldn’t get to my blog at all for all the redirects from this stupid adware, she sat down again and decided to get rid of them for good. And this time she figured it out.

It wasn’t any of plugins or any of the really techie blog stuff, which was a relief. She was worried that maybe something had gotten corrupted. But it wasn’t. It was a Google advertiser who abused the adspace in my sidebar to create a redirecting ad that only did it on mobile phones. Google knows about these bad guys and shuts them down, but they sometimes come back. And that is what was happening here.

This is how my human solved the problem: she typed in my blog address in her smartphone browser and watched the URL change as it got redirected… and typed down the .com addresses as they appeared. Then she went into our Google Adsense account (Adsense is the branch that serves the ads) and blocked them! Now they’re gone and you can see my blog again.

If these bad advertiser humans happen to come back with another .com, my human will do the same thing to get rid of them. So let me know if my blog gets those redirects again, and I’ll have my human fix it. We’d get rid of the Google ads completely, but they pay for the blog’s hosting, so they have to stay for now. If we get a better paying solution, we will do that instead.
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