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You're not going crazy, you didn't really click that ad (iPad)

Added: 08.01.2014 16:00 | 10 views | 0 comments

Tell me if this sounds familiar: you're browsing your favorite website on your phone, and without realizing it you've clicked on an ad. Oops! Guess your finger slipped, and that's why you're now in the App Store being told to download Candy Crush Saga (even though as a Gamezebo reader, you probably already have it).

Maybe your finger slipped... but maybe it didn't.

Sites all around the web this week (like ) have been reporting on a strange and somewhat sleazy phenomenon: ad networks that are automatically sending you to the App Store to download the game they're pitching. Games that have been mentioned as part of this scheme include Candy Crush Saga, Clash of Clans and Game of War - Fire Age.

In other words, the three top grossing games on the App Store.

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