Weird, since yesterday a couple of websites I occasionally visit (not Meta, nor most websites), who have publicity banners, have been forwarding me to a certain website (who probably has malicious code) after a certain time.
I already checked my PC and browser, and I'm not seeing anything on my end, so I assume it's the publicity banners of those websites that are causing this.
Is there anything I can do to stop the forwarding?
uBlock Origin? Or disable Javascript on those sites.
If you have an adblocker and all the protection on the browsers turned on (should be as I think it's the default) then... yeah, either disable javascript for the site (a pain in the ass), use noscript (double pain to set up to all the sites) or maybe some extra extension.
If it's always the same website you can try to modify yours hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts on Windows) and add the domain there to at least redirect you to nothing.
Sorry for "bumping" this issue, but just to be on the safe side, I'm getting this redirection to a SPAM website (after some seconds there; it's not immediate) only on a very short number of websites, including:
Your actions at The Animal Rescue Site have raised the value of over 879,571,513 bowls of food for shelter animals in need. Click to give to animal rescue charities today - it's free!
theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com
I assume it's something with the ads provider, and some ads in particular, on these websites, since I can't find anything on my end.
If I was infected in some way, I would probably be redirected to this website more frequently, right?
I mean, I visit Meta, twitter, all the news websites I usually visit, bandcamp, patreon, and many more websites without this problem.
Also, I get the same SPAM message (it's one of those "you won..." messages), but the website address has changed from yesterday (at the end of the day, the previous address wasn't being displayed, but showing a firefox message saying that that website has been reported as malicious, and it was stopping the redirection).