Forum Advertisement FAQ and Reports Thread

Zibblsnrt

Getting similar stuff from popcornnews again myself (topless woman with a clickbait title) as well as toptoon's usual obvious-porn ads.

Should we still be bothering to report those two sites at all? It's been months so I've kind of been assuming they're here to stay.

SmokeStacks

I wanted to check something on the forums last night while I was in a game, so I used the Steam Browser (which does not have any adblocking) and was immediately greeted with an ad for a Style Magazine photo gallery labeled "27 T-Shirt fails that went too viral" featuring a woman with visible nipples under a tight white wet t-shirt with the words "NO BRA CLUB" printed on it, followed by an ad for chinalove.com, a Chinese dating website that I'm sure is not a mail order bride company at all.

If someone posted a picture like that they'd be infracted or banned, so it's kinda weird that they're allowed to be run as giant advertisements at the top of every page on this presumably work safe forum. At least we got rid of those NRA ads though.

ArcTangent

Those are indeed racks of large dildos.

Also, should be we reporting pot stuff? I mean, it's legal here, but I've been getting a whoooole lotta CBD stuff in the ad space lately.

ArcTangent

Yup.

Nobody

Autoplay video with sound:

ArcTangent

Hello yet more unwanted political tripe.

JaysonFour

Getting ads for an online casino that takes cryptocurrency.

SW Michigan, on latest iPad OS.

ArcTangent

Alex Jones is back

Nobody

Just got another auto play video with sound on, just like the previous one, but this was for the Hyundai Tucson. The little speaker in the corner again indicated that sound was supposedly off, but the audio told a different story.

Nobody

And got this one today:

Safari, PA

JaysonFour

Toptoon is back with more of the same shitty ecchi manga ads.

Safari on the latest iPad OS, southwest Michigan.

Soggybiscuit

Getting Coinstar ads (cash to crypto advertisement). I think they used to change->cash but now seem to do cash->crypto.

Firefox on Fedora 34. I'm in southeast Ohio.

JaysonFour

Getting a bunch of ads for a “My Patriot Supply” lately. Looked up their Twitter and it’s full of shit about the “mainstream media” and doing its damnedest to try to convince everyone that there are massive food shortages everywhere.

On my iPad with the latest OS, Safari, from Southwest MI.

physi_marc

Fox Nation ad, in Safari, iPadOS 15, Vermont.

iTunesIsEvil

Got an odd one this morning (Chrome Beta, Win 11, Indiana):

Ringo

Important safety information, this ad causes eye strain - do not read

JaysonFour

Looks like a Botox ad that didn't load all the way or something.

ArcTangent

Been seeing Infowars again for about the last week. Exact same ads as before.

Mr_Rose

Started seeing those toptoon “we’re not saying it’s porn but… it’s porn” ads again. UK, mobile safari.

DJ Eebs

So, an update: we've had some extenuating circumstances which have delayed some of the reporting on these. I'm working on it, believe me, I'm not thrilled with some of these ads either. Apologies for the delay

BahamutZERO

thanks for letting us know and doing this work

ArcTangent

Go away, NRCC

Mr_Rose

Dunno what this one’s “supposed” to be about but it’s hella sus:

Last time I saw something like this it was either dumb porn-edits or dumber gay-panic transphobia shit.
Seems to be one of a pair, same text different photo (golfer in the other one), Mobile Safari, UK

Mr_Rose

And now there’s this conspiracy theory crap:

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

This uh is a very NSFW manga if clicked through

jimb213

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote: »

This uh is a very NSFW manga if clicked through

I got this same one just now. Screencap too large to upload, and I don't want to take the time to resize it.
Safari on a Mac
Austin, Texas.

ArcTangent

Monthly remark about criminal conspiracy theories assholes peddling magic beans.

JaysonFour

There’s a new ad about some new kind of gaming crypto going around, and Popcornews is back with more of the same old rude tits.

Safari on latest iPad OS, southwest MI.

Munkus Beaver

Top toon, secret class

Extremely extremely porny ad right down to the cum stains around the name

JaysonFour

Style Magazine back with the same ol’ rude tits ads again.

ArcTangent

JaysonFour wrote: »

Style Magazine back with the same ol’ rude tits ads again.

Seeing 'em now too.

Nobody

And newzgeeks just showed up again with the airport strip search photo

JaysonFour

Got cryptobro shit and more of the “patriot food” ads just now.

SW Michigan on the latest iPad software.

UnbrokenEva

medical scams with pictures of (cgi) open wounds/organs seem like they should be unwelcome, right?

iOS/iPad, Nova Scotia
spoiled for kinda gross

Shadowfire

Got an ad for Total Adblock which is a scam adblocker.

Goumindong

Apartments.com back with the auto-play audio ad. Firefox, Washington state. Edit: PC

ArcTangent

Not sure if this is bad or not, but Playboy itself would certainly be.



The Japanese under it just says Tokyo Playboy Club in English.

zepherin

I had tucker Carlson followed by Playboy.

Brody

I also just received a playboy ad. Seattle area, firefox.

ArcTangent

Was about to report the same. Assumed the previous was just an ill-themed T-shirt, but apparently it's the actual sex magazine, or whatever the fuck it is they do these days.