Clicking on Forum links to Random YouTube Link

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This is frustrating - whenever I click on the "Forums" tab, I am not only linked, but passed to some random non-functioning YouTube link all the time
Why is this happening, and how can it be stopped?

Just another glitch Alex the admin needs to fix or have fixed. I'm not sure when that last time was that anyone has even heard from Alex.

This isn't really such a big deal though, is it? The link is dead, and you can remove the tab instantly.

Mildly annoying all the same though - having this sort of thing lingering around doesn't reflect very well on the site.

Before that dead link page came up, I was being redirected to a page phishing for information with audio about how my computer was infected by a virus & I needed to give them access. It was a pain to close the page, half the time I had to force stop my browser. I much rather this dead link popping up.

Hmmmm well, here's a variation on this - when I used a PC in my local library last week, instead of the 'Russian YouTube' page I got an advert for some sort of 'get rich quick' trading scheme called 'Quantum'. It didn't look very reputable at all, so I didn't bother clicking on anything and exited straightaway.

I visited the library again today, and this time the 'side dish' with WP was a site called 'Mydirtyfling'. Out of curiosity I clicked on the link, and a red warning page came up from the library's computer security system, stating that access to pornographic material was barred. I'm actually a little apprehensive now that my library membership could be suspended if this creates a report log.

So what's going on here? Why do my computers at home give me the same harmless YouTube link that everyone else seems to get, whereas the ones at the library bring up this other stuff? And does WP have any connection to 'Quantum' and 'Mydirtyfling' - I certainly hope not!!

^ Thanks for that - very interesting and useful.

This may be a very naive observation, but I've been accessing WP on a Linux OS this evening, and I'm not even getting the 'YouTube' link. Is that relevant (I doubt it)?