Website automatically redirects to another website (www.superboosty.com)
April 16, 2023 10:29 AM Subscribe
I have this problem on my Firefox for iOS and all my browsers (including Firefox and Edge) on Windows.
When I go to the site www.nicestuffformom.com it immediately redirects to superboosty.com (specifically www.superboosty.com/PageNotFound) and the page has a large graphic reading "404 Page Not Found".
I'm a fairly experienced computer and internet user and I've never seen anything like this.
I don't want to make these sites live links in case someone unwittingly clicks and "gets" whatever this might be.
If I quickly click on the "X/Reload page" symbol in my toolbar while the browser is still displaying nicestuffformom, I can stop the redirect. But if I click on any links on the page, I quickly get the same redirect to www.superboosty.com.
Before I get the superboosty website, a page showing "Access Denied" is displayed for about 1 second and then redirects to superboosty.
This doesn't happen on any other sites.
I've cleared the DNS cache.
I've run AVG Antivirus Free and it didn't find anything.
I've used the AVG Secure Browser on nicestuffformom and the same problem happens.
Ping shows that nicestuff is part of myshopify.com Could that be part of the problem?
I'm running Windows 10 ver. 21H2, using Firefox 112.0 64-bit, and Windows Defender as my security software. It's hard to tell the version of Defender, but it might be 4.18.23038. To the best of my knowledge it's up to date and I run it with all the default settings.
If I quickly click on the "X/Reload page" symbol in my toolbar while the browser is still displaying nicestuffformom, I can stop the redirect. But if I click on any links on the page, I quickly get the same redirect to www.superboosty.com.
Before I get the superboosty website, a page showing "Access Denied" is displayed for about 1 second and then redirects to superboosty.
This doesn't happen on any other sites.
I've cleared the DNS cache.
I've run AVG Antivirus Free and it didn't find anything.
I've used the AVG Secure Browser on nicestuffformom and the same problem happens.
Ping shows that nicestuff is part of myshopify.com Could that be part of the problem?
I'm running Windows 10 ver. 21H2, using Firefox 112.0 64-bit, and Windows Defender as my security software. It's hard to tell the version of Defender, but it might be 4.18.23038. To the best of my knowledge it's up to date and I run it with all the default settings.
Response by poster: That's it. It's a "country blocker." I'm in Canada.
You'd think they'd be better to just post a notice, "No shipping to Canada."
Thanks, fifthpocket.
posted by feelinggood at 11:06 AM on April 16, 2023 [5 favorites]
You'd think they'd be better to just post a notice, "No shipping to Canada."
Thanks, fifthpocket.
posted by feelinggood at 11:06 AM on April 16, 2023 [5 favorites]
I was going to say, it sounds an awful lot like a redirect coming from the server side. Country blocker makes perfect sense.
Probably, the web site owner is supposed to set up a landing page on superboosty.com that gives you a nice message along the lines of "Sorry, we can only serve customers in the U.S."
They just haven't set this page up - or maybe there is a typo in the URL of the redirected page or some other such problem - which is why you get the 404 landing page instead.
posted by flug at 1:23 PM on April 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
Probably, the web site owner is supposed to set up a landing page on superboosty.com that gives you a nice message along the lines of "Sorry, we can only serve customers in the U.S."
They just haven't set this page up - or maybe there is a typo in the URL of the redirected page or some other such problem - which is why you get the 404 landing page instead.
posted by flug at 1:23 PM on April 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
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posted by fifthpocket at 11:03 AM on April 16, 2023 [4 favorites]