Advertising - Reporting bad ads

[Fishyface]

Found a couple of gold selling ads they popped up in waves. Had to refresh 3 times to get them to go away. As you can see im running no script but i still saw them anyways. Think one of your advertisers is being funky

Ill just link the url so you can view it since i cant post SSs due to i dont know how lol

http://imageshack.us/f/69/goldsellersd.jpg/

[Shamburger]

Found a couple of gold selling ads they popped up in waves. Had to refresh 3 times to get them to go away. As you can see im running no script but i still saw them anyways. Think one of your advertisers is being funky

Ill just link the url so you can view it since i cant post SSs due to i dont know how lol

http://imageshack.us/f/69/goldsellersd.jpg/

Running FF but no ad-block...... why? Not just directed to you but the 20 other people in this thread doing the same thing...

[Uggorthaholy]

Running FF but no ad-block...... why? Not just directed to you but the 20 other people in this thread doing the same thing...

If everyone runs ad block, ads are worthless, the site gets less revenue, the site dies.

I don't run ad block for that reason - I want to keep free sites free.

[Shamburger]

If everyone runs ad block, ads are worthless, the site gets less revenue, the site dies.

I don't run ad block for that reason - I want to keep free sites free.

I didn't know MMO-C ran ads that generated revenue through non-clicking, my mistake.

[DeltrusDisc]

I just realized that it needed to be in here:



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Never thought I'd see the day. It flashes at me. >_<

[Sanguinesun]

Indeed the awful thing about the City of Heroes ad on the main page isnt just the banner its that its taken over as the background for the main page as well. Its just horrid and makes the site look cheap.

[Stevoman]

Auto-playing video ads with sound are back on the front page. Not cool.

[Pendulous]

Auto-playing video ads with sound are back on the front page. Not cool.

One for IE9 I just found.

http://i.imgur.com/xxEWf.png

[Splenda]

Like Pendulous, I'm getting auto-playing audio ads extremely frequently in the same place in that screenie.

[Jurwi]

Firefox + Adblock ftw. As much as I wanted to support the sites I like by having the ads on, they are getting more and more annoying by day.

[Pendulous]

Also, this flashing ad is rather annoying.

http://i.imgur.com/91LHS.png

[Paf]

I've got Breathe Right Nasal Strips talking to me three times in a row. Two of those were at the same time, making a nice little round.

[Radux]

I've got Breathe Right Nasal Strips talking to me three times in a row. Two of those were at the same time, making a nice little round.

Screenshot + any other information (like potentially finding the source of the ad) would be great if you can provide it.

[Arlee]

How do you find the source of an ad?

[Radux]

How do you find the source of an ad?

Within Opera, at least (I think Firefox as well), you can Right Click + Inspect Elements and then find the proper div tag.

EDIT: Example

[mynameisjona]

OK, so this Duracell sound ad came up and I right clicked on it and this drop down menu came up. Immediately after another sound ad popped up. They're really annoying



Later got one of those "Tired of being fat" ads in the PvM thread

It's looped and clicking the embedded code gave me this:

<div id="grabDiv1617163"><object id="GrabPlayer1617163" width="480" height="270" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle"data="http://player.grabnetworks.com/swf/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1617163&content=vc2270fe2885efc5e29865428ebcc65f0a7783349"><param name="quality" value="high"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="menu" value="false"/><param name="movie" value="http://player.grabnetworks.com/swf/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1617163&content=vc2270fe2885efc5e29865428ebcc65f0a7783349"/></object></div>

[Sunshine]

Thanks; reported.

[BlackwingHecate]

I've been getting video jug videos with an ad that plays LOUDLY and without me asking them to, that I have to click on to shut up, on the left ad-spot on the bottom of pages. Funnily enough, I got one just as I was typing to complain about it. D:

[Sunshine]

Can you take a screenshot, or even better, find the source URL of the video?

[Pendulous]

Within Opera, at least (I think Firefox as well), you can Right Click + Inspect Elements and then find the proper div tag.

EDIT: Example

There is no such options for Firefox, so how to we find it?