More ads than normal
-
@esuriitmonstrum the marked up screenshot is very helpful. Can you confirm which site that was on?
-
@renkuleader could you share a link to the page where you found those? We’ll want to get full screen screenshots and include a link in the report.
-
But naturally, it’s not there when I looked just now. :) Thanks so much for checking.
-
@supernovia The post below on the same blog has a poor ad placement today, forcing the text that was on the left-hand side of the page, down below the ad. Here’s the screenshot:
But when I go out and back in, the ad has gone. It’s very frustrating to have them skip around like this, because I can’t lay anything out with any certainty. Thanks for your help.
-
Here is also the link to my blog, which became unreadable since last week because of excessive ads: https://marcoarmello.wordpress.com
-
I had same problems some days ago. I installed some adblockers that seem to be (one of) the solution on my computer. However these advertings are really intrusive on my phone.
-
Hi @supernovia Here is another example. The same ad appears five times and is disruptive. Once again a sentence leading to a quote is interrupted so that the sense is lost and the meaning is unclear. I will have to leave WordPress if this is not resolved, it makes all my work look stupid. https://notthenewsinbriefs.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/twins-rights-are-human-rights/
-
@notthenewsinbriefs Damn, is that ad about skin-lightening as a beauty treatment? I know some people who do it, but there are people who take objection to it on an ethical level. So it can be a big yikes to have that on your blog, depending on who you are.
-
esuriitmonstrum – Ads can be reported at any time by clicking the … and using
report this ad. -
I shared this earlier today. This is the information about Henry Milner who was killed on this day in 1918 and who is remembered on the family memorial in our cemetery. He was 19. Virtually unreadable and disrespectful.
-
@esuriitmonstrum It looks a bit like that doesn’t it? It says hair colouring but I’m not going to click on it to check it out, the image is bad enough. No, I absolutely do not want skin lightening advertised on my blog.
-
@notthenewsinbriefs I suppose @staff-zinnia’s recommendation to report would be more applicable to you than it would to me, if you see it pop up again, I suppose. I admit, me pointing it out was mostly nitpicking.
-
@staff-zinnia There wasn’t a way to report the ad as it appears on my post. I have gone through the post clicking all the ads off and choosing the option ‘inappropriate’ but that’s not really adequate. I have been through other posts clicking ads off where they are particularly intrusive or interfere with the text but I would have to re-check all my posts every day to make sure that further inappropriate ads didn’t appear and that is obviously not possible. Please do something about this problem, it is disproportionate to have so many ads popping up all over the place, it’s making the site unusable.
-
@notthenewsinbriefs Does the little triangle next to the X give you the option? Some of these ads have a little ‘i’ that give you a reporting option.
-
@ernesthides Damn, it’s even partly covering his name. I think yours illustrates well how tasteless rampant advertising is. Top o’ the page, more important than anything else. Worse is, if your reader isn’t aware how free blogs here work and that it’s WordPress and not us who inserts them, they might jump to the conclusion you’re profiting off of your online memorial here.
-
@ernesthides Oh god, I didn’t even notice the first time. That’s an advertisement for a strategic war game, plastered on top of a private’s memorial?
-
@esuriitmonstrum thanks for that – yes, some of the ads have that i and I can report them. Not all though.
-
Here’s an example of an ad which has a little i in the corner but it doesn’t take you to a place where you can report the ad, it just takes you to info about the ad company. I have a few ads like this, mostly celebrity-based, big intrusive photos and no way of getting rid of them.
-
Hi @notthenewsinbriefs, those should take you to a screen from Google that has info about that ad as well as a link for reporting it. Can you confirm?
-
@esuriitmonstrum I was able to figure out which site you were referring to and have shared your link and the screenshot with the ads team. Can you confirm whether the site is any better today?
Re:
Some hobbyist bloggers have even complained of explicit ads on family-friendly sites, to which they were told they should pay and upgrade to remove such explicit ads
Can you share where that happened? If you see an explicit ad, please report it.
- The topic ‘More ads than normal’ is closed to new replies.
WordPress.com Forums 