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Annoying Ads?


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If you see annoying ads that:
  • Play Audio automatically
  • expand automatically (ie grows outside of it's usual space)
  • any popup (whether within the site, virus warning popup... anything popping up!)
  • any redirection
  • adult ads
Please let us know. We'll try to remove them. We have filters set to not display such ads to begin with. But some seems to slip by. Posted Image

How to identify and report?
Well, more information the better. Information that could help are:
  • Screenshot - A good screenshot should show it's placement of the ad with respect to its page. In otherwise, post everything, not just the ad itself.
  • Name of the advertiser such as the brand.
  • Link the ad points to (do not click please, just hover and find out if you can. If not, oh well).
  • And if you're slightly more technically gifted, the source around the ad itself.
  • The page that you were viewing when the bad ad occurred.
  • Please DO NOT add a hyper-link (clickable) to a bad website. Meaning, if you want to write down their address, replace "http" with something like "hxxp" so that it doesn't become a clickable link. We don't want to give the baddies more points by giving them referring links in the eyes of search engines.
Thank you!


Just as a footnote, any ads that violates any of the specification above is a violation of the advertisers own Terms and Conditions. Though I will try to manually remove problematic ones, many are often removed by the advertisers themselves as they don't want it either.

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ah damn, i got 2-3 of the audio ads just today but never saw this thread. i was unlucky since i was on my headphone <.<
will report back soon xD

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alright, got one for you
audio ads
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/171/adsp.png/

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Thats the one I keep getting too. There is another one but, I can't seem to find it now.

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alright, got one for you
audio ads
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/171/adsp.png/

got it~

Damn ipad commercials are trying to avoid filters... repeatedly. >.>

Also removed some wallmart ad if that's what prettyman's talking about.

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Hey can you do something about

CONGRATULATIONS YOU WON !!! You are 100000 customer.

The sound really pisses me off.

Thanks.

Edited by wolfmaniac, 22 November 2011 - 11:24 PM.

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always the same for me
http://i.imgur.com/07BHU.png

Edited by Weaper, 24 November 2011 - 01:29 PM.

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Okay, I think I got to the root of the problem rather than disabling 1 by 1 (of which I can find). I always had no-auto-audio-play filter on. But they kept on sneaking in. So, I had a little chat with the ad network and they made some suggestions. Hopefully, we won't see anymore of it.

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So I was repeatedly getting a redirect to here http://www.crackle.c...res/?cmpid=2781 one or two days ago. Apparently I lack the competence to upload a screenshot.

Edited by CHeezeMaggot, 03 December 2011 - 05:57 AM.

Looks like a duck? Tastes like a duck? Walks like a duck? It's a panda! :batoto_010:
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Well, im not sure if this topic is still active, but there is a new add about winning something (the usual) the problem is that it has a timer and sound like the usual bomb, then when it reach 0 it makes an annoying noise.
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Ugh... got one that is annoying in its own way. Tried to screenshot but can't get the timing right :angry:

It is a Geico ad, and it appears and disappears right over the manga image. By the time I try to screenshot it, it is gone....

Currently on the following link (if it helps):http://vatoto.com/read/_/2225/mahou-sensei-negima_v19_ch169_by_aquastar/2


Edit: Just to note, even refreshing the page does not get rid of it. I also tried leaving the page and returning, no luck there either.

Edit 2: Came to the realization once I was able to actually read through it that the manga page itself is the ad. Appears whoever uploaded it has that ad imbedded into the image. Not only is the page itself an ad, but it has that "flashing" ad part as well. Talk about a pain in the <insert anatomical part that show most frustation over stupidity like that>.

Edited by rielhall, 28 December 2011 - 01:38 AM.


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I've never gotten one since I've downloaded a firefox adblocker a year ago.... which is what I recommend if you're using firefox.



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The problem of course being that you bypass supporting Batoto. But a few weeks ago there was an Adblock Plus update which mentioned that they now allow some ads through; ones that are non-intrusive and generally nice... would be worth looking into?

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... a few weeks ago there was an Adblock Plus update which mentioned that they now allow some ads through; ones that are non-intrusive and generally nice... would be worth looking into?

I actually checked out the guidelines, and it's pretty tough to pass. hehe. For starters, it says no images.

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Does this type of ad count even if you didn't list it?
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/mangahere.jpg/

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Does this type of ad count even if you didn't list it?
http://imageshack.us.../mangahere.jpg/

Taken care of.

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am I the only one with the annoying autoplaying video+sound ads back?

Edited by Weaper, 02 March 2012 - 04:41 AM.

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am I the only one with the annoying autoplaying video+sound ads back?

There shouldn't be any of those... >.>
See first post. And report.

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play audio automatically
http://i.imgur.com/BEFhc.png

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