Advertising - Reporting bad ads

[Deleted]

I do use Adblock for chrome, but I disable it for sites I really wish to support (such as MMO-C and YouTube). The point of this thread, however, is to report the ads that the site does not condone (such as gambling, goldselling and auto-started noises) specifically so that people won't feel as inclined to block ads altogether on MMO-C.

[Sunshine]

Reported it to the ads guys; will get them to remove it as soon as possible.

[Vanyali]

I keep getting a download on MMO and I'm thinking it's an add. When I noticed it there was a Dell add up, but I'm not 100% if it was from that or not since i was browsing pretty quickly.

It downloads a file ref=sv_pc_4. Doesn't seem to do anything (avast didn't pick anything up), but certainly worrying since this is the second time now :x

[Sunshine]

Can you get the full URL of the file that's trying to download?

[medievalman1]

Checked my history on google chrome when I saw that ref=sv_pc_4 file show up as downloaded. Says it downloaded from http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sv_pc_4?...ode=6466416011

[sykke]

I think these fall into the gambling category

http://imgur.com/a/otOyf

Betsafe wants me to bet on champion's league and NHL, clicking gets me to https://odds.betsafe.com/fi/?action=openaccounthttps://odds.betsafe.com/fi/#/#%2FProview%2F50

Betsson on the Finnish hockey league. https://www.betsson.com/web/fi/Sportsbook/?spp=Default

Casinoeuro: https://www.casinoeuro.com/fi/

All these ads appear all over the site. The only other ad I get is the Scarlet Blade one.

Country: Finland
Browser: Chrome

[Sunshine]

Reported; thanks!

[DeltrusDisc]

I recently enabled ABP because of the influx of audio advertisements on mmo-c (sorry!) but over the past 36 hours I've been noticing something very peculiar... Those ads that get enabled in words in posts/articles on some websites that I think everyone despises severely. Have a look:



Click image for larger version.

Link address it forwards to is: http://i.trkjmp.com/click?v=VVM6Mjgx...Y2MzhmNzI0NDBk

[Sunshine]

There was a thread about that recently -- it's actually malware on your side putting the hover links on words.

[DeltrusDisc]

O_o

Sigh, great. MSE caught something the other day and dealt with it. Ugh. Guess I've got more work to do. >_<

[Sunshine]

Also, if you can disable ABP and get me screenshots + click links of the audio ads, it would be really helpful!

We want them gone, but I need specific info to pass on to our ad guys so they can complain to the ad networks.

[Radux]

Just got a gold ad that should likely be looked at:
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com...70816073363881

[Ulminia]

you have ads auto playing on your main page again

<iframe id="injectedFrame" src="http://tag.AudienceTV.hiro.tv//iframes/SitescoutSyndicator/Sitescout-CA-RON.php?
serverUsed=elb2.us1.hiro.tv&amp;sendPublisherEvents=false&amp;affiliate=${PUBLISHERID}&amp;companion_method=none&amp;parentURL=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mmo-champion.com%2Fcontent%2F&amp;syndicator=SitescoutSyndicator&amp;publisherExternalID=Sitescout-CA-
RON&amp;parentDomain=www.mmo-champion.com&amp;browserName=Chrome_26.0.1410.64&amp;
samplingPerc=1&amp;lastEventTime=1366128656502&amp;width=300&amp;height=250" width="300px" 
height="250px" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;position:relative;border:0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no">
 </iframe>

i do not mind ads but hate auto play

[Arlee]

Ads in the curse bottom banner:


http://www.hiddenvalley.com/?utm_med...BRIGHTROLL.COM


Also I am getting a pop-up with this link (no screen because I am at work ):
http://ar.voicefive.com/global/invit...&1366730789482

[Sesto]

The curse bottom banner is HORRIBLE. Pretty much all the ads that play are video ads that autoplay, and have sound. I don't use adblock because I'm okay with sites getting money for their services, but if this continues I'm going to get it just for this site.

I'm not going to post links simply because it is almost every ad on the curse bottom banner. Nevermind, idgaf, I got adblock just to block this site and this site only.

[vindicatorx]

And this is the main reason I use Chrome with adblock + i see nothing but the site.

[Sunshine]

The curse bottom banner is HORRIBLE. Pretty much all the ads that play are video ads that autoplay, and have sound. I don't use adblock because I'm okay with sites getting money for their services, but if this continues I'm going to get it just for this site.

I'm not going to post links simply because it is almost every ad on the curse bottom banner. Nevermind, idgaf, I got adblock just to block this site and this site only.

We hate them and we are trying to remove them, but we need links so our ad team can complain to the ad network. We've already told them we don't want ads with sound, but it's up to us to complain when some get through that filter.

[KristianAG]

I have over the last couple of weeks gotten auto-forwarded from your front page and into some blank page that gets blocked by Symantec telling me "Web Attack: Facebook Fake Survey 9 detected." www.xaith.com/bad_ad/symantec.png (can't use links or [img] tag yet)

Only a few minutes since the last time this happened and now I took a few screens, still only blank pages, but there is at least a few URL's you might use to track this down. It forwards thru three URL's before Symatec stops it.

First URL: www.xaith.com/bad_ad/first.png
Second URL: www.xaith.com/bad_ad/second.png
Third URL: www.xaith.com/bad_ad/third.png

Using Internet Explorer 10 on Win 7 from Norway.

[Deleted]

I don't know if this classifies as bad ads but I recently got some adds that sort of drops down from their placeholder "div" and covers text from page:

[the9tail]

I just installed adblock because of the damn video add with a horse that keeps appearing at the bottom of this site. Didnt want to, but you forced me.