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In the last few days, I've noticed that Stack Overflow gets redirected via AdFly especially when I click on a user. Why is this being done these days? Or am I the only one facing this?

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It happened again. Here's a screenshot

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    The SE network will not ever redirect you to an advertising network like that. You probably got a bug on your system or a rogue extension installed.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Jun 23, 2013 at 3:03
  • This is the second time recently this has been brought up... Maybe there's a correlation?
    – Richard J. Ross III
    Jun 23, 2013 at 3:08
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    Or you’re on evil public wi-fi and Stack Overflow doesn’t use HTTPS yet. *Cough cough*
    – Ry-
    Jun 23, 2013 at 3:10
  • @minitech, they must be getting close, all of SE's imgur (finally) supports TLS, meaning we shall finally have our security (damned TSA...)
    – Richard J. Ross III
    Jun 23, 2013 at 3:15
  • I'm on my home wifi. Havent had this issue before
    – Anil
    Jun 23, 2013 at 3:21
  • @Anil What's your OS?
    – Undo
    Jun 23, 2013 at 3:47
  • I'm on Windows 7
    – Anil
    Jun 23, 2013 at 3:55
  • @RichardJ.RossIII: Can you find a link to the other time?
    – Linuxios
    Jun 23, 2013 at 4:05
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    @Anil: My suggestion: use Linux. In all sincerity though, I suggest that you backup all your important files and do a very thorough virus scan, possibly from a livecd. Then install Linux ;).
    – Linuxios
    Jun 23, 2013 at 4:06
  • @Linuxios I'm usually on Fedora. But been doing some work with my Windows machine. That's when I ran into this issue
    – Anil
    Jun 23, 2013 at 4:17
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    @Anil: Yay! 1 more down, millions more to go ;).
    – Linuxios
    Jun 23, 2013 at 4:28
  • @Linuxios unfortunately not. It got status-norepro'd and deleted, as far as I know. Maybe a mod can find it? It was just a screenshot and didn't say "adfly", but it was within a week ago.
    – Richard J. Ross III
    Jun 23, 2013 at 6:19
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    It will keep happening until you remove the malware/virus you got.
    – Shadow Wizard Love Zelda
    Jun 24, 2013 at 6:19
  • The screenshot makes it obvious it's no SO's fault. Redirect through a remote site is one thing, but a toolbar, advertisement and a ten second delay? No wai.
    – John Dvorak
    Jun 24, 2013 at 6:31
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    I took the liberty to report this to adfly, I also provided them with a link here and encouraged them to post an answer here (regarding correct steps taken if such abuse occurs). So it would be nice if this question sticks around.
    – Time Traveling Bobby
    Jun 24, 2013 at 8:10

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As the comments already say: We don't do anything like that. It sounds very much like you have picked up a piece of malware that rewrites the links so the malware author gets a few cents.

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