Forum Advertisement FAQ and Reports Thread

Nobody

Popcornews is back with an ad that features a nude woman curled up.

21stCentury

Got the Israeli bonds ad twice today already.

ArcTangent

I'm still getting Infowars and TopToon (porn) stuff, by the way.

DrCLYC

Got this



Since NFTs are scams, probably shouldn't be there

Bursar

I don't know what the ad restrictions are, but are they intended to be other languages? I keep getting this one:


Chrome
PC
Portland, OR

Munkus Beaver

Getting a lot of auto play video ads that really fuck up on mobile, trying to play the video if I have safari minimized or another tab open even

Bethryn

I've seen a bunch of variations on this with various bits of text like the "sponsored by" changing to random different things.

It doesn't seem "legit"

PC, UK, Firefox

ArcTangent

Obvious scam is obvious.

Ark Evensong

Not sure about this one - probably edges into inappropriate territory, so thought I'd put it here.

Refreshed/rotated away after about half a minute or so.
Windows 10, Chrome, The Netherlands, (Zeeland)

Saw a more/actual inappropriate ad a few months back, but that one rotated away before I thought to take a screenshot. Can't remember what it was about now, and I only noticed it the one time, so ~eh. Overal, the ads I've seen here have been pretty decent. No complaints.

Mr_Rose

I feel like this probably shouldn’t be in the rotation, even if it is a lot tamer than some others:


Also it’s part of a two-frame animation so it might have snuck by a cursory examination that way.

ArcTangent

Sedition ads from the NRCC. Ew.

JaysonFour

Popcornews is back with another half-naked redhead.

SW Michigan on my iPad, current update.

EDIT: Yeah, Popcornews and Newsweek’s are back with a vengeance- same ads as before, too.

Fishman

Newzgeeks

Chrome, Win10 PC, New Zealand

Nobody

Just had an auto play video with audio for Hyundai

Safari on iPad, SE PA

ArcTangent

I-Is this a threat?

VishNub

yikes

firefox, PC

SmokeStacks

What does that even mean? Is she saying he jerks off 24/7? In that case, yeah, she should really start knocking.

If she's carrying toilet paper, I would assume that means she's heading into a bathroom, and anyone who lives in a house with multiple people in it knows that you should knock before opening a bathroom door.

I'm the with guy on this one.

Zibblsnrt

So these twits rebranded again...

ArcTangent

Fuck off, NRCC.

jungleroomx

Jesus fucking christ

Butler

Yeah I'm getting the same one (posting from Western Australia). Proooobably gonna stay off the forums while I'm at work for a while.

Nobody

Been getting that one and another variation with similar content for Toptoon

EDIT: Adding screenshot of the second version:

ArcTangent

I still see Infowars crap, by the by.

And the porn stuff above.

MulysaSempronius

Firefox, PC

Munkus Beaver

Getting ads for Money Metals Exchange, for printing Trump coins

JaysonFour

Getting the Money Metals Exchange ads (Trump and alt-right coins) and Popcornews is back with more barely-covered women.

Latest iPad version in SW Michigan.

ArcTangent

Still getting InfoWars scam crap.



Also saw an ad for buying a yacht, which isn't objectionable, but seems... uh... weird for multiple reasons.

Munkus Beaver

Still getting money metals exchange grumpiest right wing bullshit

Nobody

Newzgeek is back with an ad featuring a topless woman covering herself with her arms

BahamutZERO

is the work involved in moderating the ads worth it compared to the revenue? this seems like an eternal game of whack-a-mole where you can never win

Ringo

I'm not sure there's much work except firing off emails to Google asking them to stop (I could be wrong)

DJ Eebs

The work on our end is just sending emails, yeah

ArcTangent

Not necessarily saying anything needs to be done about this one, but like the ad for yacht ownership that it saw, I feel like the ad algorithm may have, uh, broken, and is not being effective at whatever it thinks it's trying to do as it seems to be oscillating between super creepy "hey, we're tracking your IP, and here's the address of a local Walgreens," totally generic "buy Adobe products!", and stuff like this:



eBay, for when you're looking for a pile of garbage, a rug on the side of the road, or a bedsheet!

Tofystedeth

Reminds me of the FB Marketplace ads I used to get for a trailer full of debris or a single uncooked,unpackaged hotdog.

ArcTangent

Unlike pretty much all the other things people have reported here, there's never been a break from the Infowars crap since it started. Is that stuff whitelisted then and shouldn't be reported anymore? Cause I'm still constantly getting it.

BahamutZERO

I highly doubt it, infowars is probably just really good at gaming the adsense algorithm to get where it shouldn't be. Keep reporting it.

Nobody

Newzgeeks is back with a photo of women stripped to their underwear at the airport.

JaysonFour

Newzgeeks still going round with women in underwear in airports, but a new one’s emerged- Style Magazine with a woman in a very thin white t-shirt and very obviously not wearing anything under it.

Southwest MI, latest iPad OS.

Nobody

I just got the Style Magazine one as well.

Led Zepherin

Literal porn. Today. Just some rude titties. I think they were selling shirts?