Malignant advertisements on my blog
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Dear WordPress, I have been a wordpress blogger for >5 years and I am very happy about it. I have noticed that off-late I see many adds on my blog. I am okay with wordpress offering adds to earn some money. At the moment, I cannot afford an upgrade to remove adds as I am still a student. so, let there be some adds. However, I cannot allow stupid adds on Lindsay Lohan’s law suit or some idiot advertising body weight loss on my blog where I am talking about carnatic classical music, Gandhiji and similar topics. This is simply unacceptable. Please have a policy and create an algorithm to match advertisement quality with the blog’s content. I can send you example screen shots to show what rubbish comes up in the name of advertisement with your money making policy. Please understand. I will soon earn enough to afford an upgrade. Until then, you should help me keep my blog clean. I am proud of what I write online. I am not like millions (with due respect to them) who write anything and everything. check my blog and you can make your judgement. http://danappiah007.wordpress.com/
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I am sorry if my general comment on other bloggers ‘writing anything and everything’ would hurt some sentiments. I know there are some high quality bloggers out there. Some of the adds make me very angry and it was an outburst in self-defense. The intention was not to show others in poor-light.
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If you cannot afford the No Ads upgrade, you are going to have to live with the ads. If you will very soon earn enough for an upgrade, borrow money from someone and buy it.
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@RC is accurate
If you think an ad is “rubbish” then make a screen shot of it and file a complaint, the ads here should be family friendly but sadly not all advertisers do that, also browsers can become infected with malware that puts ads on a web site – if an ad is truly “rubbish” WordPress.com will probably remove it (what you think is “rubbish” might be fine to many, but the ads should at a minimum be family friendly)
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Allow me to clearly state that if you do not like what’s offered here and do not want to purchase a No-Ads upgrade http://en.support.wordpress.com/no-ads/ or make the blog private, http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ you own your content and are free to move your content to another blogging platform. http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
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To off-set the costs of providing free hosting to millions of bloggers, WordPress.com has been running advertising on our free hosted blogs since 2006. Many bloggers do not know this because despite the fact they ticked the box required to get a free blog, they did not read the ToS. Many also do not read the advertising entry in the support documents after registering their username and blog(s). Also note that as the ads do not display to us when we are logged in, and as many use browsers with ad blockers when logged out, they may not realize they are there at all.
10. Advertisements. Automattic reserves the right to display advertisements on your blog unless you have purchased an Ad-free Upgrade or a VIP Services account. http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
If the ads you see are found at the end of blog posts then provided you see this small About These Ads link what you are seeing is WordPress.com generated advertising.
WordPress.com does not use text enhance or text link ads or pop-up ads or links in comments. If you are seeing those then that’s a browser-ad-on issue, or in some cases, it’s embedded into free games downloaded from the internet. See here: Bloggers: Beware of Adware.
If what you are seeing whenever you save or update a post or page is an automatically added code/script block at the end of posts and pages that you can’t delete then see here: Malware Targets Macs and Windows PCs
All of WordPress.com ads are family-friendly. If you feel an ad is inappropriate please take a screenshot of it, upload it via Media -> Add New to your Media Library. Then return to this thread to post the file name to let Staff them know it’s there for them to view.
Lastly, note to eliminate all advertising on our free hosted WordPress.com blogs we can purchase an annually renewable No-Ads upgrade.
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Thanks for your responses. It has taken me time to build my blog and I value my relationship with wordpress. Now that the options are made very clear to me (the blogger who had the question), could one of the moderators kindly delete these thread (forum post)? I would appreciate it immensely since I wouldn’t want people finding my blog through this forum. May I request wordpress to offer a facility to the blogger who asks the question to delete it (with permission) after the discussion reaches its logical conclusion?
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Sorry but that’s not possible. These public forum threads are shared teaching tools and we are all taught to search before we post. There is no sensitive personal content such as a telephone number or email address and your safety is not at issue so the thread will not be deleted.
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Alright. Retain those that are relevant. Remove links to my blog. Is that possible at least?
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Could any of the moderators please help clean this? I searched and then finally opted to post a question here. I may have missed reading that it would stay here for ever.
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No, that is not possible. You said it in public. You are going to have to live with the reputation your public remarks earn you.
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Okay. Let it be for the time being. I have alerted the wordpress moderators. That was my job. I hope someone will see my point and respond. This is an unequal equation (is that possible?). I cannot do much about it.
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Always be aware that you are posting to a public forum, and that forum topics may only be deleted if they represent a valid security or personal safety concern. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-forums-code-of-conduct?replies=1
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You have failed to alert the forum moderators. No matter; as TT points out, they will not delete the thread.
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Yes. As I said, let it be. I did my job. Bad ads on bad blogs make no difference. I upgraded my blog to a ‘no-ads’ blog following the advice of one of the members above, and this was done much before I got another suggestion to move my blog elsewhere if I wished. I only hope that wordpress develops a way to monitor blog quality and finds a way to match adds to the blog’s niche. As I said in my first question, I have nothing against wordpress trying to cover its maintenance costs via adds.
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I am pretty sure I have alerted the moderators. You are free stick to your views. If you are one of the moderators, good luck to you.
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I am not, but I know the procedure for alerting them. It is different from the procedure to post in a forum thread.
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Did you see another thread on this matter? Probably you didn’t. If it were a public thread, you may have responded to that already as a member. Therefore, you can safely say that I have most likely forwarded my plea to the right people following the right procedure this time.
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