Unauthorized and offensive advertisements

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  stormycs · Member · Dec 18, 2011 at 6:02 pm

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  Three readers have notified me that offensive advertisements have been added to the bottom of my last two blog posts. I didn’t place them there. I didn’t authorize them. I cannot see them when I view my blog post. This feels sinister, and I don’t like it. How can I get those removed and insure this won’t happen again?
  Blog url: http://stormycs.wordpress.com/

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Dec 18, 2011 at 9:10 pm

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  To support the service (and keep free features free), we do sometimes run advertisements. We try hard to make the ads discreet and 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:

  No Ads

  Full details on advertising:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

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  stormycs · Member · Dec 19, 2011 at 2:22 am

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  That sounds good. I even agree with it on principle. However, twice now you’ve placed offensive ads on my blog posts. I hear this from my readers. Strangely, the ads are hidden from me. Anytime someone has to hide something from others, I get suspicious.

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Dec 19, 2011 at 6:58 pm

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  The ads are hidden from any users that are logged in, as we only run them in limited places and at limited times.

  You’re always welcome to send screenshots of any offensive ads to us at help@wordpress.com

  We’d be happy to look into this for you. :-)