I'm desperate. My website is showing this error in console, related to googlecm.hit.gemius.pl

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I don't know what is this and I'm desperate to find out as I found something on the internet saying it's a virus.

Please clarify this to me.

I have a WordPress website and I use Adsense. However, for a couple of days, I have noticed these errors in the console and I don't know what they mean.

All of them are related to this URL: https://googlecm.hit.gemius.pl

The errors are saying:

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_ADDRESS_INVALID

GET googlecm.hit.gemius.pl/googleredir?rid=... net::ERR_ADDRESS_INVALID

First, what this address with .pl means.

And second, how do I fix these issues?

Answer 1

I don't have the best answer, but ... I noticed my site is doing this too. It's a pretty simple site, with just a few tools some people use. If I disable Google's ads, the error goes away. If I re-enable them, they come back. I double checked ad content, and they're all legitimate.

The requests aren't being generated by my pages. They are only generated by Google's ads.

My site is hand coded, not WP or another CMS, so it can't be a hack or anything. I literally read every line of code related to that page while trying to diagnose it. It wasn't hard, because there aren't many lines of code. :)

So, to make the error go away, you'll need to turn off Google's ads for a while. It really isn't necessary though.

The good news is, that error means nothing was sent to the gemius page. It is simply unreachable right now, for whatever reason. I guess Google will fix it eventually. I don't care enough to open a trouble ticket with them. I'm just considering it a curiosity and annoyance on my otherwise error free pages.

screenshot with googlecm.hit.gemius errors

Answer 2

Any luck on this? I am having the same issue with my website. One day my ads would show 404 sometimes and now I am seeing this error the console of my website. I saw online the googlecm.hit.gemius.pl is malicious so currently figuring on what is going on. I manually add ads to my site as well as have auto ads enabled. I might try to disabled auto ads to start. I looked at my code and it looks exactly like what AdSense gives on their control panel. I am hoping it is an issue on Google's end since didn't even tough anything related to my ad code lol. Hope this helped!