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  • 16-04-2015 10:21am
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    token101
    Registered Users Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭


    Hi, was browsing one of the threads in After Hours and the advert below popped up?
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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,096 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    You need to post that in this thread:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056855938


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    #3
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    W
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    ?


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    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Hah hah hah hah hah, in the traveller thread and all :D


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    #5
    Orion
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    What does Populary mean?


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    Boards.ie: Niamh
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    That ad has been blocked now, thanks.

    How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site



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    Dades
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    Orion wrote: »
    What does Populary mean?
    It means they're asking for money, even though they're already filthy rich. i.e. Like the Pope.


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    token101
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    Boards.ie: Niamh wrote: »
    That ad has been blocked now, thanks.

    Eh, no it hasn't!


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    beertons
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    That's hilarious.


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    Spear
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    token101 wrote: »
    Eh, no it hasn't!

    That's a different ad, the wording has changed. But it needs blocking equally.


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    token101
    Registered Users Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    Spear wrote: »
    That's a different ad, the wording has changed. But it needs blocking equally.

    It's not an actual advert :pac::pac: It's clearly adware/spyware but there's surely something Boards could be doing to stamp this out.


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,096 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    It's one of the ads being delivered by the embedded third party ad network. It's not spyware or adware related.


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    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    What happens if you click on? This isn't a real service is it? I'm interested in the crowd that claim this when the armed forces think twice about setting foot past those gates :D


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    Lovely Bloke
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    who do I call?


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    Boards.ie: Niamh
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    token101 wrote: »
    Eh, no it hasn't!

    That's a different ad with different wording (presumably because we blocked the other one). I'll ask for this to be blocked also, thanks.

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    token101
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    Boards.ie: Niamh wrote: »
    That's a different ad with different wording (presumably because we blocked the other one). I'll ask for this to be blocked also, thanks.

    There's about a million of them, honestly! I can't take screenshots of all of them but and it's actually worse on mobile. When you click into the that particular AH thread on mobile, there are adverts everywhere for 'traveller eviction', 'gypsy removal' etc. I get that it's just keywords, but surely there's a better way of managing these!


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    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    There is, if Google wanted to do so. Their business is set up to capture as many paying people as possible. It is not in their interests to take serious action against the businesses that are spending money and deliberately mislabelling their ads to show up in our approved list. Needless to say, those aren't the sorts of ads we have even the slightest interest in running.


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    Orion
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    I presume it's the Rathkeale thread. I've just browsed the entire thread while logged out and didn't see any ads like that. Must be some other keywords in your cookies or something.


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    token101
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    Orion wrote: »
    I presume it's the Rathkeale thread. I've just browsed the entire thread while logged out and didn't see any ads like that. Must be some other keywords in your cookies or something.

    I was viewing in incognito mode so it's got nothing to do with cookies


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    Orion
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    Odd then. On my desktop at home I use the hosts file from mvps so I can't get any ads from anywhere. Tried on my work PC and phone and didn't see these even once.


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    token101
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    Orion wrote: »
    Odd then. On my desktop at home I use the hosts file from mvps so I can't get any ads from anywhere. Tried on my work PC and phone and didn't see these even once.

    Yeah, I generally use ad blockers so I don't see them but I turned them off for 4OD and this happened! Appreciate adverts are deliberately miscategorised but surely there's some way of the site promoting the adverts being able to read the text the adverts present served & dropping them if they contain certain keywords in the ad text?

    FWIW, there's another advert this morning there. I can't take screenshots but it's in the top banner advert section and it's listing '24hourbailiffs.com' under the usual eviction stuff.


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    Dav
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    token101 wrote: »
    Appreciate adverts are deliberately miscategorised but surely there's some way of the site promoting the adverts being able to read the text the adverts present served & dropping them if they contain certain keywords in the ad text?

    I'm afraid there isn't. We plug in Google's code and it serves the ad, our code never looks at it nor does it have a means of screening the content beyond how we've configured the ad network settings. If we could do it, I'm reasonably certain we'd try it.


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