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Egnever

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3. All of those links describe exactly what is happening
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 05:52 PM
Nov 2017

Google is attempting to protect you from malicious ads. If you are getting it all the time it is likely because your machine is already infected.

I just hit every link on the google news front page and did not get a single redirect. That said I also have an add blocker which would prevent most of those adds in the first place. And my machine is clean, I clean computers for a living my machines are always virus free unless I am testing stuff.

This is not a bug they need to fix it is an intended effect to attempt to protect you. Advising people to circumvent it is just horrible advise.

edited to add

I just disabled my add blocker to test if that was keeping me from the redirects and still not a single redirect on any link on the news front page. If I were you I would take a hard look at your machine and ensure you are not infected already.

I would suggest running these two programs at the minimum and removing anything found..
https://www.malwarebytes.com/


https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/

Again what you are suggesting here is very bad advise IMHO and I would advise anyone reading this to be very careful with following it.

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