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Chrome Will Whack Website Bait-and-Switch Tactics (cnet.com)
Starting next year, Google's Chrome browser will stamp out some shenanigans that send you to a website you didn't expect. From a report: You probably don't like it when you navigate to a particular web page and then your browser unexpectedly jumps to another page -- an action called a redirect and something the website publisher didn't even want to happen. With Chrome 64, in testing now and due to ship early next year, Chrome will block that kind of bait and switch, Google said. "We've found that this redirect often comes from third-party content embedded in the page, and the page author didn't intend the redirect to happen at all," Google product manager Ryan Schoen said in a blog post. Chrome 64 will block the redirect action and instead show an information bar telling you what happened. That's not all. Chrome 65, due a few weeks later, will squelch another unwelcome action that can happen when you click a link and the website opens in a new tab while switching the existing tab to a page you didn't request.
Because it's not the ads, it's the browser.
To give you an idea, If I have a website, and I have an iframe, I expect that everything that appears in that damn iframe to stay in the iframe. Yet time and time again script inside the iframe is able to do shit to document, window and top DOM's. This is a defect in the browser's own sandboxing and overflow clipping.
If the developer console is open, it shouldn't even redirect at all. So good luck trying to stop a redirect when you don't know where it is fucking coming from because the browser won't sandbox the fucking thing.