I know what redirects are and several ways to stop them, but the question in my mind is what is their purpose?  It seems like all redirects just take you to another TGP that then redirects you again endlessly.  You never go to a site where they are asking you to buy something or submit personal information, its just always another TGP.  What is the motivating factor for adding redirects to your TGP if you are neither making any revenue nor ripping people off.  But rather they essentually boot people off your site?

Confused. 

It's being done for boosting mutual traffic-generating.  Some financial kick-backs are involved as well (banner-ads etc).  But you're right, if you overdo it, it will backfire on you and chase people away from your site.

 

Fight Back !!

Few years back I started emailing some for the
webmasters responsible for those sites.....
to my suprise even got two replies.
Basically they said much the same as Funky did .
But one even sent a list of sites that didnt
practise redirecting, so there are a few......
''pearls amongst the swine''

drum

JunkBuster works well, I use a modified version and since the source is available it's easy to modify.

Point is, with a proper blocker file, all kinds of crap are blocked, and there's a window so you can see what pages these nefarious pages are accessing.

Most folks would be amazed at the shit going on behind the scenes.

As for redirects, block them, not much that can be done except once a site that does that is identified, chuck 'em in the blocker list and move on. They don't deserve anyone's time.

PeerGuardian is useful too. It'll block sites at the IP level and they have a whole lot of freak sites that are blocked.

the way alot of tgps see it, if you click a gallery instead of an add, your a useless visitor, so they send you to someone elses tgp, and in return that tgp will send them a visitor. but they overdue it way too much, i just skip all sites like that now, ive found plenty of tgps without redirects that are pretty decent

Suppose you're all IE6 users......

For FireFox, Opera and IE7 very efficient redirectblock-plugins are available.

 

funky2004:

Suppose you're all IE6 users......

For FireFox, Opera and IE7 very efficient redirectblock-plugins are available.

Agree about firefox....  dunno about Opera, and IE7 sucks for other reasons.

- mike =)).