Alright, so the Escapist is a great website. Of course I would want to visit it every now and again to see what's new! But recently I've hit a snag. Every time I try to come back here lately, I keep ending up getting redirected back to this off-brand search engine, Charter, with links to several different Escapist threads as its results.
Annoying enough in itself, but when I try to come back here again I'm pulled right back to this Google wannabe. What's the deal!? I tried clicking on the links it provided, thinking 'Alright, I'll just go somewhere inside the Escapist and then redirect to its home page using its nifty 'Home' icon.' But no! Clicking on these links just makes this thing think I'm searching for that particular episode of Doraleous and Associates, or that one thread about how far watermelons explode on average when dropped by Paul off that ladder!
Only by frantically mashing the links it provides at random am I able to finally break my way into the Escapist proper. Anyone else have problems with these rogue search engines redirecting you from where you wanted to go? Seriously... it even does it when I use my bookmark tab.
Update: It stopped doing it. Just as I finished this post, I decided to try to have it happen again so that I could link to this irritating Charter to demonstrate what I'm rambling on about, only to find myself back here at the Escapist. It would appear problems like this only happen when you don't need them to.
Still, though... does anyone know what in the world wide web was going on? I'd like to know how to avoid that problem in the future.
Annoying enough in itself, but when I try to come back here again I'm pulled right back to this Google wannabe. What's the deal!? I tried clicking on the links it provided, thinking 'Alright, I'll just go somewhere inside the Escapist and then redirect to its home page using its nifty 'Home' icon.' But no! Clicking on these links just makes this thing think I'm searching for that particular episode of Doraleous and Associates, or that one thread about how far watermelons explode on average when dropped by Paul off that ladder!
Only by frantically mashing the links it provides at random am I able to finally break my way into the Escapist proper. Anyone else have problems with these rogue search engines redirecting you from where you wanted to go? Seriously... it even does it when I use my bookmark tab.
Update: It stopped doing it. Just as I finished this post, I decided to try to have it happen again so that I could link to this irritating Charter to demonstrate what I'm rambling on about, only to find myself back here at the Escapist. It would appear problems like this only happen when you don't need them to.
Still, though... does anyone know what in the world wide web was going on? I'd like to know how to avoid that problem in the future.
