Iframe buster / stub files

[csdude55]

Can anyone suggest where I might find an updated list of stub files? I have them for DARTIframe, eyeblaster, eyewonder, and flashtalking, but today I started to get complaints for rockabox and I don't have that one.

I googled it but all I could find was one site that had it listed as a Disallow in their robots.txt; eg:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /rockabox/rockabox_buster.html

But that just keeps search engines from finding it, doesn't it? It doesn't actually block ads looking for it?

(If anyone wants the stub files I have for the above, let me know and I'll post them or PM them)

[keyplyr]

Sorry, no info on the list of stub files.

Using a disallow in robots.txt only *asks* robots that support robots.txt to not index that file; it does not block ads, or other robots from finding it.

Are you looking to bust iframes site-wide?

[csdude55]

Probably not ALL iframes, but there are a handful from Adsense that, when they load, they redirect my users to a 404 page. For example, the user that reported the rockabox error was being redirected to:

example.com/rockabox/rockabox_buster.html/?adunit_id=1073747564&campaign_id=1073742681&delivery_id=0269d646-d21b-407c-9fb0-1a0a07b6b5ad&domain=http://www.gonc.co&cachebuster=1498304296349244&lineitem_id=1073745132&placement_id=12328&ssp=DBM_1&dsp=DBM&time=1498304296607&dwell_start=0&session_id=0&clicks=%5B%22https%3A%2F%2Fgoogleads.g.doubleclick.net%2Fdbm%2Fclk%3Fsa%3DL%26ai%3DCwzboKE9OWbyoFY3spAPtp7CwBe78it5I18qJ_5sFpJSDga8JEAEg36esEmDJ3reKpKScEMgBCagDAaoE0wFP0FlIgW8bESwrfqG7uLVPRTxbcu-s2o9zVPgWAyjJU15dETX5Tcx4GdsEaIq4q2-f6bFn-AgDBH1LeRxywFHlmaGMtoRg8q-09suBeOToic0iiQaUvWw-PpmfV4hpRJwIymCgHBV8nVB2sPl3EIwNAtTY6KVAbyr6gDDHA4i7OGNcpNJN-3bFjSPvZlbx18ltRYW70dR8nH4wM_CpaD96MRvV1WxSJc_KuIs4RWXCqP4TmwIMgbwZBcAD4VxM6cm4iAnSwRTOZ-_woNPCOIL4xB984AQDoAZNgAeT9rxeqAevyhuoB6a-G9gHANIIBQiAYRAByBOCkv8B0BMA2BMK%26num%3D1%26sig%3DAOD64_3Qef05vAEh132rSPBnKCPc9_L6xQ%26client%3Dca-pub-****%26dbm_c%3DAKAmf-ClV27Qd84X3GBBxjGj_4GPuJNeYOG_8G6cl9wk_ECjzMEX4tUhxa7TOK8eh71ug1HuDMi3%26dbm_d%3DAKAmf-BFU5GkVFOSIV6kfcvW23iIKsYhapvyRHV4zPcSJSDtZd0cvgyeU2ka2aLfQhJsviYcBHQMnMqTSiABitVaMHvfqqLD13-cvxPYtOa4VPg0l-LATBe9RyfLwoSyX8xk8MAKr9pDW91qhYRDBjcBiMcopjDASIyNuQRn10HuXiME4QKKyvaWOCjuqclRwvEprog-1yEKzotqAv_3RPrb9-A40aPVK27K6f9K3FOnaKd8oYol6rSxpxJLUai_BhH6lLVj5Oy1%26adurl%3D%22%5D

So I just want to prevent problems like that. I haven't had a report like this since I installed those other stubs in 2014, so I guess rockabox is a new one?

That's what I thought about the robots.txt, and I thought that maybe that site had the files uploaded and was just using robots.txt to prevent them from being indexed. If so, though, they just gave me a 404 error when I tried to view them, so I'm not sure.

[csdude55]

Good news, I found what I think is a fairly complete list!

[support.google.com...]

I also had to download /doubleclick/adx_iframe.html separately, no idea why they didn't include that in the ZIP package.

Sucks that I have to clutter up my /www/ directory with 27 directories, though. Maybe I'll play around with .htaccess so I can put them in one directory and make them redirect? Unless you guys have a better suggestion.

[keyplyr]

I've never had reports of redirect errors from Adsense ads. Why do you think this is happening at your site? Is your site architecture causing this?

[csdude55]

It's definitely not on my end, the link on Google support confirms it.

Back in 2012 I had my first report from users that they were visiting a page on my site and immediately being redirected to another page. After much digging, I traced it down to a specific ad, and found where someone had posted a stub file you could use to "fix" it.

Two years later, it happened again, and I found the other stub files.

I haven't had any more complaints until today, when someone told me they were experiencing a redirect. Once they showed me the URL they were being directed to (posted above) it was obvious that I needed another stub file.

The link I posted to Google Support has the "rockabox" listed, so that's definitely the problem. After I uploaded the new stub files, they haven't reported any more problems.

[keyplyr]

Do your reports say that they were redirected after clicking/tapping on the ad, or are they being redirected on focus or hover?

[csdude55]

No, the report I had today said that it happened almost immediately after the page started to load. This is consistent with what I saw in 2012 and 2014 myself; it redirected as soon as the ad started to load, with no action on the user's part.

I was concerned about "false clicks", too, but Adsense doesn't show any type of spike in clicks.