Fraudulent or misleading advertising

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  hazel37 · Member · Oct 20, 2019 at 9:58 am

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  Why does WordPress serve up very misleading or possibly illegal adverting? Here’s one example”Earn $7,400 + per hour” another “This fruit eats belly fruit. lose 17lbs in a week”!
  I would love to post a picture but can’t.
  Can the WordPress site control the type of advertising – I know there needs to be some.

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  hazel37 · Member · Oct 20, 2019 at 9:59 am

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  Typo “This fruit eats belly fat. lose 17lbs in a week”!

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Oct 20, 2019 at 12:40 pm

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  Hi –

  That doesn’t sound like an ad we would serve.

  Is there a report this ad option when you see them? Please use that.

  Also, take a screen shot the next time you see it so we can also have a look. Since we don’t see such ads from our end it makes me think that this is something localized to your set up.

  Let me know what device, operating system, and browser are also being used when the ad is visible.

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  hazel37 · Member · Oct 20, 2019 at 12:46 pm

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  Thank you for the quick reply
  Firefox, Windows 10 Pro, HP desktop
  I did submit the ad report. Unfortunately I didn’t know how to attach an clip of the screen to my post.

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  themagicrobot · Member · Oct 20, 2019 at 4:23 pm

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  I wouldn’t mind the ads so much if they were normal ads for normal stuff like phones or cars. The ads displayed these days are really poor and annoying as the same one usually displays twice in a post as well as again in a sidebar. I’ve seen the “get rich quick” ad regularly. In my case it is £7472 per hour! My pet hates are the numerous gross “medical” ones such as mentioned above and also the “Diabetics: How to lower blood sugar” one (as I can’t work out what the image is. Looks like sheep s**t) and “If you have Ear Ringing do this immediately”.

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Oct 20, 2019 at 7:02 pm

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  The screen shot can get linked here with a third party like snag.gy or added directly to your site’s media library. Let me know if you add it to the media library and I’ll take a look.