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It looks like it may have a malicious ad or something. It takes over my entire session and says my bank information has been stolen. It locked up Chrome as well and I had to kill the process myself (on Windows).

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I've had problems with malicious ads redirecting me lately. I began to suspect that my phone was infected, but it turns out that this is now a common occurrence:

https://www.wired.com/story/pop-up-mobile-ads-surge-as-sites...

I don't know why the ad platforms even allow custom JavaScript...

I don't even understand why governments haven't made a case of this generally speaking. If an ad network allows this kind of behavior, they can be blocked by countries. Sites won't want networks that can't serve traffic in as many countries as possible, so it should solve itself.

And it isn't that far removed from what happened to Podesta or whatever. They could make it a case that it is important to the state.

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