This has been going on for QUITE A WHILE.

When I am using Google, and there are links, I will click on a link (let's say it's a link to this thread), only when I click on the link, it re-directs me to a completely different website (an advertisement or some such nonsense).

This happens EACH AND EVERY TIME I click on a link.

If I want to be able to go to the website that the link indicates, I have to look UNDERNEATH the link, which indicates the URL, then I copy and paste the URL into my browser, AND THEN I get to go to that website.

How can this be happening? Who is taking over google, that when one clicks on a blue hyperlink, you don't go where you want to go?

I have no clue.

Have any of you noticed his, or is this just my experience?

Thanks much

Melody