offensive ad
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I have noticed a particularly offensive medical scam ad showing up on my blog recently. Of course it doesn’t use foul language or hate speech but it’s particularly annoying. (s there any way to block this particular ad (the doctor begging you to avoid eating corn…and buy his supplement)? I guess i don’t mind paying a slight premium of $3/month if that’s what it takes, but I don’t really want all the other features this option seems to offer. I’ve been blogging on Word Press for 8 or 9 years now and the ads have never bothered me before, but this particular ad shows up on other people’s screens right in the middle of the story…not just at the end. What do do?
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Hi there,
I don’t see any ad in the middle of any of your posts. Can you please grab a screenshot of that article including that ad so I can have a look? You can upload that screenshot on your Media Library so I can see it.
Here’s how to take a screenshot:
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My friend who found the “obnoxious faux begging” ad lurking in the middle initially discovered the anomaly at home where she uses CenturyLink as the Wi-Fi provider. She couldn’t do a screen capture since she’s now at the office. However, using an office Internet service on her phone (Verizon), the anomaly does NOT show up; that is, the ad appears at the end of the text, where it belongs. (I’m not quite sure how that all worked.)
Interestingly, the next test she did at the office was to use the corporate server: not only was the ad NOT disrupting the layout flow in the middle, but it actually disappeared entirely (She thinks the corporate firewall system may have eliminated the external ad material).
So, I guess the real question is: how did CenturyLink server allow the ad to bust into the middle?
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Unfortunately, ISP-injected ads (meaning the ad is added by the ISP, not us) is starting to become a more common practice.
Doing a quick search, I did find a number of articles and customer complaints about ads injected by CenturyLink, so if she’s only seeing the disruptive ad at home, I suspect it’s either malware on the computer or an ad injected by the ISP.
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Fascinating information, macmanx!
My friend is going to see how it looks when she gets back from the office today.
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