On May 25th, we noticed that spammers and malware distributors had moved from using Google redirects, to Doubleclick redirects.
If you’re tracking this stuff, you’re undoubtedly seeing extensive use of these redirects, like this one:
The reason is that Google has done quite a bit to fix the redirect problem, as you can see from this example:
So the party’s just moved on to a different location. Let’s hope that DoubleClick (err, Google) can fix this soon. They are aware of the problem.
Alex Eckelberry
(thanks, Adam Thomas)