UK only poll - investigating a link redirection problem

[MrBadger]

For the sake or my sanity, can I please ask a rather daft sounding question.

If you click the link in the quote below (ie from within TMC), do you see product A below, product B below or something else? Answers in poll above.

If you see product A, can you please briefly describe your browser, ISP etc

Poll may close/be deleted without warning.

Product link on amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08SR262FJ

Product A​

or

Product B​

 

[Cardo]

The images don’t work. They’re empty boxes.

 

[Dilly]

No image in boxes for me either

 

[MrBadger]

So something else then!

Hopefully fixed now

 

[Dilly]

So something else then!

Hopefully fixed now

Fixed.
B for me

 

[Cardo]

Fixed here, also.

Product B.

 

[Horatio Alger]

B!

 

[exlatccatsa]

I'm viewing on my Samsung phone, Firefox browser and get a cookies page. After that its B
On my PC, firefox browser its straight to B

 

[OddJob83]

B for me too redirects to the uk amazon site using Opera & Chrome

 

[KennethS]

I guess I always have to be different. I go to product A, on the USA Amazon website. Running macOS 11.3 and Safari browser on a MacBook Air.

 

[MrBadger]

Thanks everyone, apart from the single vote above, it looks like an incorrect redirection to a different product is occurring for everyone else, but this does not seem to affect US based users.

It seems to be after some interaction with the forum software. Manually entering the URL in the browser probably yields the correct response.

I guess I always have to be different. I go to product A, on the USA Amazon website. Running macOS 11.3 and Safari browser on a MacBook Air.

Ironically, you actually have the correct product. No prize though.

Thankfully, it seems that I am not going (any more) mad. And not just me with this erroneous redirection.

 

[Dilly]

Thanks everyone, apart from the single vote above, it looks like an incorrect redirection to a different product is occurring for everyone else, but this does not seem to affect US based users.

It seems to be after some interaction with the forum software. Manually entering the URL in the browser probably yields the correct response.


Ironically, you actually have the correct product. No prize though.

Thankfully, it seems that I am not going (any more) mad. And not just me with this erroneous redirection.

Could be worse. You could have asked Alexa...

 

[AnthonyLR]

Product B Google Chrome Windows 10

 

[Tony Hoyle]

If It manually enter the URL i get the same redirection, so its amazon getting it wrong.

 

[MrBadger]

If It manually enter the URL i get the same redirection, so its amazon getting it wrong.

Thats interesting. I get no redirection so correct product.

Are you by any chance pasting something like ?

http://go.teslamotorsclub.com/?id=37170X963217&isjs=1&jv=15.0.0-stackpath&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fteslamotorsclub.com%2Ftmc%2Fthreads%2Fuk-only-poll-investigating-a-link-redirection-problem.222965%2F%23post-5394412&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB08SR262FJ%3Ftag%3Dtmc064-20&xguid=495b08c701c165252c39ad28d533aa51&xs=1&xtz=0&xuuid=b38e6596d07cd9afdb39eb700a05ac16&xjsf=other_click__auxclick%20%5B2%5D

Rather than

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08SR262FJ

 

[Tony Hoyle]

Confirming with wget...

$ wget --save-headers "https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08SR262FJ?tag=tmc064-20" -O file.txt -U "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.79 Safari/537.36"
--2021-03-16 17:55:43--  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08SR262FJ?tag=tmc064-20
Resolving www.amazon.com (www.amazon.com)... 143.204.193.153
Connecting to www.amazon.com (www.amazon.com)|143.204.193.153|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HRYTKYX?linkCode=gs4&tag=tmc064-21 [following]
--2021-03-16 17:55:44--  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08HRYTKYX?linkCode=gs4&tag=tmc064-21
Resolving www.amazon.co.uk (www.amazon.co.uk)... 143.204.192.105
Connecting to www.amazon.co.uk (www.amazon.co.uk)|143.204.192.105|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

So amazon is redirecting to the UK site with the wrong product code.

 

[MrBadger]

Thats weird. Not what I am seeing on several different devices and networks. I think I'll stop investigating before I end up with a rabbit hole I can't get out of.

 

[timnd]

I'm seeing A: Brave browser and Zen internet.