There are sites I visit that, when I click on a link, it first starts a script or something to direct me to an add. Then when I click it away an try the link again, it properly goes to the page I wanted to go. The add appears in a new browser window but there are no tabs and no toolbars. I have pop-ups disabled in the safezone browser and adds blocked. But this seems not to be a pop-up although it keeps popping up . This happens only with these particular sites, other sites I visit work perfectly so I guess it’s not a infection on my PC.
Why is it so hard for browsers to block those redirects and adds? While these particular redirects are not malicious I am hoping, they well could be. I started to use the safezone browser just because of these annoyances. So can it be blocked without losing proper browser functionality?
There is nothing you can do about it without losing normal browser functionality.
Best thing to do is to stay away fro those sites as they often are not reliable (malicious).
Eddy, I get it that certain sites are offering “illegal” content and might be risky. But try to look beyond that for now and talk about safe browsers, which was my issue. Someone might just as well wonder around on the internet en get malicious content even when they are not like me being a bit naughty by looking for Illegal content. Avast has been very good so far in protecting me from malicious sites. But the safezone browser does not block redirects. It also has no option to block certain websites. I like to block, and/or I like safezone to block those sites where I redirected to. Why ever allow sneaky redirects, why is this not stopped in a browser that’s called safezone?
How you you know if a site is legit? In this case I know it’s offering illegal content, but I might visit another site from which I do not know anything yet. Is it not the purpose of Safezone to offer a safe zone, just because people do not always walk the straight and narrow path?
Blocking redirects would be silly as many legitimate websites are using them.
If you want to block websites, do it in your hosts file or firewall or router.
Security starts with the user, not with hardware/-software.
No matter how much protections the SafeZone Browser/the av/the router/the firewall etc offer, they are useless if you keep visiting sites like that.
If you could install plug-ins, that would mean you also could install malicious ones which will defeat the entire purpose of the SZB.
I can’t think of a legitimate reason for a sneaky redirect by any website, redirecting to somewhere else than to the link which the page code is showing.
Don’t you think safezone should bring you to the link you are expecting?
I can think of some legit reasons, just one being that the ad content isn’t on the site you are viewing, but on some ad server/service.
That said I don’t use the SZ browser, but Firefox in that I run NoScript (which should first block the script) and RequestPolicy add-ons. The latter effectively kills these ad redirects and many other connections with 3rd party sites unless you have specifically allowed that 3rd party site (ad or otherwise).
The point I was trying to make is that one expects Safezone to create a safe zone where it denies all possibly unsafe redirections or scripts to be run unless I specifically Allow it. It does not fully.
I had my hopes set on a browser whose security was hard to beat, and still gives the user normal functionality.
. This happens only with these particular sites, other sites I visit work perfectly so I guess it’s not a infection on my PC.