adgoal.net tracking

[moroznah]

Hi,

I have started experiencing a problem recently in all ebay services. Any ebay page randomly redirects me to www.smartredirect.de, which is the property of adgoal.net. Obviously this is your average marketing tracker, but the problem here is how ebay handles it. Ebay not just embeds it in it's pages, but redirects me to a third party website (and i don't see any related consent), which of course will leave it's cookie and then follow me everywhere on the internet and stuff banners of overpriced goods.

The reason i noticed this is because i'm drastically cutting out google adservices cancer and kadzillion of other scammy trackers using DNS lists to make internet usable again, and because of random www.smartredirect.de blocked redirects, ebay becomes unusable.

I'm not into ethical and legal side of ebay handing it's users to unknown advertising tracker. I just want to have a usable marketplace as i had for the last decade without problems, any suggestions are welcome. Maybe there are some sort of tampermonkey/noscript style script mod or extension to fix this behavior.

Thanks!

[eburtonlab · Accepted solution]

@moroznah 

Do you get the same redirect if you use a different browser?

There was an issue last year or so where many mac iPad or iPhone users were being maliciously redirected to a scam advertising site. There was one scam redirect that primarily affected Safari users, and another that affected Chrome users, I believe. eBay was not the only site that seemed to trigger the redirects; Yahoo was another, I believe.

[moroznah]

Followed you advice and tried clean browsers, enabling extensions one by one.

The problem was caused by malicious functionality of Alihelper extension, which helps track price changes of aliexpress lots. I guess they added little "feature" to track users on other marketplaces, that's why there were no redirect problems on other websites. Enabling it only for aliexpress did not help, only complete removal. Avoid!