Forum Advertisement FAQ and Reports Thread

Just_Bri_Thanks

Done

Ringo

Vancouver, Washington, USA

DJ Eebs

Thanks, folks

DJ Eebs

This issue has been addressed, so we shouldn't be seeing any more NRA ads

DireOtter

Surfpossum wrote: »

Just got this (moderately nsfw):

https://us.v-cdn.net/5018289/uploads/editor/9t/9fsd25ojggjp.png

Firefox on a Windows PC in Bellingham, WA.


I can't say it's not well-targeted but maybe not appropriate for the forums.

Not sure if a ruling has been made here, but these are still happening:

https://imgur.com/bsQwLkc , https://imgur.com/53uC0uq

Firefox on Windows PC, connected to a VPN located in Sunnyvale, CA.

JaysonFour

Every so often, surfing the forums manages to trigger my antivirus now. I’m running Kaspersky and Ad Block Plus, and every so often it beeps and tells me it blocked the download of “not-a-virus:HEUR:AdWare.Script.Pusher.gen“

Did some amateur google-fu and apparently it’s some kind of ad thing that hits Google ad service things?

Zibblsnrt

Just got this delightfully blatantly-fraudulent one (I'm assuming "super obvious scam" falls under inappropriate ads).

Firefox, Windows PC, Nova Scotia.

evilmrhenry

(Picture includes skimpy bathing suit; I redacted it cause I don't want to look up the actual rules around this stuff.)

Seen ~9:44am PST, Bellevue WA, Firefox.

DrZiplock

evilmrhenry wrote: »

(Picture includes skimpy bathing suit; I redacted it cause I don't want to look up the actual rules around this stuff.)

Seen ~9:44am PST, Bellevue WA, Firefox.

Just got this one as well. 8:38pm North Carolina.

Not exactly great for a safe for work/sub-18 forum.

Ringo

I just got an ad telling me to visit Cleveland

I don't know who or what Google thinks I am, but I'm shook

JaysonFour

Got two more overnight- this one about 11 last night (near Kalamazoo, MI), on iPad, running the latest iOS:



Not sure if hemp oil is one of the things the forum wants to be pushing, but... better safe than sorry.

...and this one, about two hours later, which is behind a spoiler because of NSFW:

This is the second one for this particular product I've seen; I wasn't fast enough with the screengrab to get the first one. It's an adult game made to interact with an adult toy aimed at guys, the toy is hidden behind the black because better safe than sorry. I know this one's against the rules.

Athenor

Now that it's been 2 weeks or so since the ads went live, would it be possible to make the announcement dismissable?

Bowen

Here's mine from just now:



I mostly run login containers so PA's ad profile from which they draw from should be rather restricted to content from PA (also I don't use any of this shit).

Knowing google adsense it is probably scraping data from text on the pages and the average PAer in general's browsing habits. So some of our threads are probably triggering the less than desirable ads.

Most of the ones I get are for shit like humble bundle but every now and then one of these fuckers squeaks in. There was a vacuum one today because of the vacuum thread in H/A I probably browsed. I've gotten a few NRA/Political ones, and a few NSFW ones.

Bhow

I'm getting lots of nsfw-ish bikini girls/topless lying prone type, like those linked/screencapped above.

PC, Chrome, West Michigan

Xaquin

I don't see ads because I'm a patreon supporter, but the blue space at the top keeps changing size vertically (not like every second or anything, but just every so often)

I don't notice it on my phone, but on my pc it's obvious (current firefox if it matters)

iTunesIsEvil

evilmrhenry wrote: »

[img]httpx://us.v-cdn.net/5018289/uploads/editor/gs/lxvszlxu0zhh.png[/img]
(Picture includes skimpy bathing suit; I redacted it cause I don't want to look up the actual rules around this stuff.)

Seen ~9:44am PST, Bellevue WA, Firefox.

I just got this one as well. About 1:56 PM EDT, Central Indiana, Chrome latest stable beta.

DJ Eebs

We're looking into these ads now

jimb213

I was catching up on the conspiracy thread, watching a video in an embedded twitter post, and this happened about halfway through the video.

MacOS 10.15.6
Chrome browser.

Brody

iTunesIsEvil wrote: »

evilmrhenry wrote: »

[img]httpx://us.v-cdn.net/5018289/uploads/editor/gs/lxvszlxu0zhh.png[/img]
(Picture includes skimpy bathing suit; I redacted it cause I don't want to look up the actual rules around this stuff.)

Seen ~9:44am PST, Bellevue WA, Firefox.

I just got this one as well. About 1:56 PM EDT, Central Indiana, Chrome latest stable beta.

I know you said you were looking into these, but I wasn't sure if you still wanted data on them.

Edge, 4:15 PM, VPN to Iowa.

Munkus Beaver

Bhow wrote: »

I'm getting lots of nsfw-ish bikini girls/topless lying prone type, like those linked/screencapped above.

PC, Chrome, West Michigan

Same, iPad safari Alabama

ArcTangent

Uh, yeah, so, pretty sure we shouldn't be getting porn. Especially porn about teenagers running sex hotels with their teachers.



Or maybe it's just super weird creepy DEFINITELY a thing you'd be banned for trying to make a thread about.

E:
There's apparently a bunch, and even if they're not outright porn (and not clicking on that shit to find out), it's all stuff like "Let's Make Love at a Love Hotel," "Tonight We Exchange Husbands," "The Unobtainable Saki-san's Guide to Self-Pleasure" etc

DJ Eebs

yeah uh...no good on that one, I'll pass it along

autono-wally, erotibot300

hmm.. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but it looks like all my PA tabs in an up-to-date firefox on an up-to-date Windows 10 just crashed, and somehow took the whole browser with them. might have been something on my side though

Zibblsnrt

I dunno what other people think, but these ads feel kinda human-trafficky to me. I've seen a couple of them today.

Still Firefox/PC/Nova Scotia.

Just_Bri_Thanks

Zibblsnrt wrote: »

I dunno what other people think, but these ads feel kinda human-trafficky to me. I've seen a couple of them today.

Still Firefox/PC/Nova Scotia.

The alternative is still pretty scammy.

knitdan

I kind of doubt PA wants to be affiliated with white nationalists

Edit: It ended up being way too big because there is still no good way to shrink the file size of IOS photos, but this was an ad for Fox Nation with Tucker Carlson front and center

IPad Safari latest version, Spokane

Munkus Beaver

Just_Bri_Thanks wrote: »

Zibblsnrt wrote: »

I dunno what other people think, but these ads feel kinda human-trafficky to me. I've seen a couple of them today.

Still Firefox/PC/Nova Scotia.

The alternative is still pretty scammy.

Saw one like that just now, for ‘single Russian ladies’ on iPad in Alabama

DJ Eebs

Are any of you operating in incognito mode when you're getting these ads?

Just_Bri_Thanks

I don't.

JaysonFour

Nope. Never been able to figure out that stuff on my iPad.

Been also getting ads in the MMO section for paid boosting services in WoW- last I researched, that kind of thing broke Blizzard's ToS something fierce...

knitdan

I don’t ever browse the forums incognito but my physical location is not always what websites seem to think it is.

Twitter’s ad software always seems to think I’m in Maryland instead of Washington State.

Munkus Beaver

I was unaware that the iPad had an incognito mode

Munkus Beaver

Also, just got an ad with a woman who was essentially topless for “newzgeek”

Brainleech

On my android phone when I visit I don't get the ads but on my computer I do

Munkus Beaver

And now one selling Trump and Don’t Tread on Me coins, “money metals exchange”

ArcTangent

I'm still seeing those creepy-as-fuck porn or porn-adjacent stuff by the way.

templewulf

Xaquin wrote: »

I don't see ads because I'm a patreon supporter, but the blue space at the top keeps changing size vertically (not like every second or anything, but just every so often)

I don't notice it on my phone, but on my pc it's obvious (current firefox if it matters)

I'm having the same issue. When I'm logged into Patreon / ClubPA, it incorrectly loads the *space* for an ad and then correctly never serves it to me. It looks hella janky. Strangely, when I have uBlock or Privacy Badger on, the layout is flush against the top of the page.

Win 10, Firefox 87.0, DC, USA

Nobody

Just got one for Patriot Polls on Safari

Also got one of the WoW boosting sites

Located in PA.

EDIT: Boosting site is “Wowvendor”

Nobody

Newzgeek is back with the same type of ads.

ArcTangent

Nobody wrote: »

Newzgeek is back with the same type of ads.

Yep.