Site diverting to irrelevant gaming(?) app.

[Gruach]

Surely it's not just on my phone? Innocently scrolling through any old thread, with no advert in the middle of the page, I'm suddenly confronted with a huge advert. Clicking to delete it just takes me to an apps thing.

Why is it happening?

Same here, iPhone and Safari
It's been going on all morning.
Please make it stop!

I posted a thread about this a while ago but they ignored me :(

Here's my thread, because it has screenshots.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2648122-Screenshots-of-problematic-ads

I noticed it happens when the ad space stays blank. It randomly diverts. It's getting worse. And the other day it directed me to a dodgy "virus scan" saying my phone was infected and I needed to download some software Will try to get you screenshot of that. Unfortunately I don't have the URL any more because I couldn't get my thread to upload last time. But you can see part of it.

Thought it was just me- clicked off it before thinking to get a screen shot though.

Here's the virus one. This was really hard to get rid of as well as even when I opened a new tab it made a pop up over that screen too, I couldn't open any menus etc. I had to restart my whole browser.

Ah - I had a feeling there had been other threads - but this was something quite new to me this morning.

On my phone the problem appears to have gone away (for) now ...

... Spoke too soon.

Bloody "Cyclops". What the hell is it? And why am I being forced to take an interest?

Well a few weeks ago people were getting pop ups with porn on

Mine keeps opening a new page and showing me that advert. Most recently on this thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2658138-To-ask-my-brother-to-stop-making-dirty-jokes but also a few others in active. I'm using an iPhone 6s Plus and using the standard up to date safari browser.

I'm getting it too, even on some threads not on active/ aibu. Please do something MNHQ.

getting the gaming advert here too, really annoying and makes me panic every time in case it's a virus!

Cyclops as here too. Very very annoying

I think I'm getting it on other sites too.
Is it a virus? How do I get rid of it?

I only get it on mumsnet (iPhone). I rarely mn on the PC but haven't noticed it there.

I only get it on mumsnet too, I do use a few other sites with my mobile but I don't get it with those.

I'm getting this too, not all the time, i kept thinking id pressed something

Any chance we can have a reply from HQ? I started my own thread about this yesterday morning and still haven't heard anything

Just in case MNHQ hadn't seen the various cries of anguish I've reported this thread.

Hardly dare say my scrolling has been trouble free so far today - but slightly holding my breath.

It's happened twice in the last few minutes

Since this one has been reported I'd like to also highlight this thread from yesterday: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2658272-Diverting-to-porn-site

Seriously, is it not time to ban adchoices completely?

Yes it's still on mine and bloody annoying. Please kill it MNHQ!

Hi all,

Thanks for the reports and posts.

We've asked our ad ops team to look into this ASAP

Apologies.

Glad you're looking into it. I've been diverted to the Cyclops site several times this morning. I'm using Safari on an iPhone.

Rebecca I just posted a thread about this too. Apologies for the duplicate. Also getting pop-ups that cause me to navigate away from site. Also using iPhone, a 6+ and using web browser via safari.

I'm got it yesterday and today, coming up as a backdrop to Talk. Using a PC and Chrome.