How do I remove unwanted spam adverts at end of new posts?

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  linseedoil · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 8:20 pm

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  Hello,

  I am having an issue with any new post that I create where a spam advertisement is inserted at the end of each post without any express action on my part to enable this. I am unsure of the cause of this and am very eager to remove this ugly (and possibly privacy-violating) interruption. I would be very grateful for any help in this matter. You may see an example at http://wp.me/p1JH4C-6Z.

  Best,

  linseedoil
  Blog url: http://laruederia.wordpress.com/

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  linseedoil · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 8:22 pm

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  P.S. I only see these adverts when I am signed out of wordpress.com. Due to their spammish nature, the ads do not strike me as part of the Google AdSense program (although, I may be completely wrong).

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 8:24 pm

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  To support the service (and keep free features free), we also sometimes run advertisements. We try to make the ads effective and only run them in limited places. If you would like to completely eliminate ads from appearing on your blog, we offer the No-Ads upgrade.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

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  linseedoil · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 8:28 pm

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  Thanks designsimply. In my previous Google searches for solutions, I kept running up against the feature that you mention. Since these adverts were so unconnected and often questionable in nature, I didn’t think they would be part of this program. But…I was wrong apparently. Thanks, anyway, for the scarily quick response. Best, linseedoil

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 9:01 pm

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  Questionable in nature doesn’t sound good! Can you please provide us with a screenshot if you see those pop up for you again? We’d be happy to take a look at them. You can save the screenshot images to your media library and we can take a look from there. http://en.support.wordpress.com/make-a-screenshot/

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  linseedoil · Member · Nov 13, 2011 at 10:56 am

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  Hello again designsimply. I have uploaded to my media library a screenshot, as you suggested, of an example of when and where these adverts appear. The link appears in the status bar at the bottom is the link associated with the advert (visible upon mouseover). An example post of where this appears is http://wp.me/p1JH4C-6Z. Please let me know if there is any further information that could help you address this issue. Thanks so much.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 13, 2011 at 7:46 pm

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  Thanks for sending that in!

  We have reported it to our ad provider.