Ads going through to Play Store as if they were tapped

(Android) Twice in the last few days, I've had an ad finish playback and then move immediately to the Play Store as if I had tapped on it, when I'm pretty sure I hadn't. It also wasn't that I missed the close X, I hadn't touched the screen at all.
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Star Trek Timelines Android client 8.0.0
Playing on Bluestacks 4.260.20.4001
I will try to catch which ad(s) it is from now on though.
Much appreciated
FYI--not sure what is meant by "ad network", but I will screenshot the play store screen showing the app's prompt to install.
Android 11 - Pixel 3XL
It's somewhat of a hassle to get my phone to backup my screenshots (since I don't back them up by default), so instead I'll just post the name of the app:
Game of Thrones: Conquest
There is, of course, the possibility that the ads are being registered as clicks (which gives parties different compensation) when they shouldn't be instead of just "impressions".
Exactly why I brought it up :-)
Yea it really doesn't bother me, because I use Bluestacks. But it probably drives phone and tablet users insane.
At any rate, what I was seeing is not what's been reported above by others, an overlay that goes away like normal when you close it. My situation was that I ended up completely in the Google Play Store app, no longer inside the Timelines app. I would actually have to go back to Android's home to get back into Timelines.
Maybe the overlay is a new thing that wasn't working at first, and moving me completely into the Play Store app.
I can't speak for others, but on mine it is opening the Google Play app. Any extra tab on Bluestacks is another app that is open. But Bluestacks displays apps like a browser so that is why I can just close the google play app and continue.
For phones and tablets I imagine it behaves very differently. Just exactly as it's behaving for you I'd imagine.
Can anyone else confirm how it's acting on phones/tablets?
I tried it on my device and it was not happening.
The reason I ask for screenshots, especially showing the ad network, is that this has to be looked into per ad/per network.
To check the ad network, click on the symbol that is usually found in the lower right corner.
Not sure how I may get screen shots of that on my Android tablet though...
-- Dr. Zefram Cochrane, around 2073
Harmless to you and I, but potentially fraudulent from an ad-revenue point of view.
Follow-up assessment: it doesn't happen every time for me, but often enough.
I posted a screenshot in the other thread on ad problems of one that actually takes you to the playstore without any interaction from the user.
And that was really helpful, thank you - that is the kind of screenshots I need
While TP's at it, how about dropping ad networks that run scamy ads like this one?
App: RAID
Didn't catch the ad network this time.