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I don't think that's how adverts work. If they can track you they will show you adverts relevant to you otherwise you are going to get generic adverts. There are a few companies that do site specific ads but there isn't enough money in them compared to tracking adverts.

 

If gambling ads are a "no no" here then it should be fair game to report an ad that one deems to be irrelevant. Otherwise, it is a bit of a slippery slope where the grounds on which an advert is deemed to be inappropriate are anything but clear.

These ads are border-line phishing, since they are pretending to be from a certain social networking app. Why does this still have to be a game of whac-a-mole? Why can't all ads that appear on the site be pre-approved by staff?
 
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http://52.5.207.121/oapi/clickAd;jsessionid=5CD7B94D81562A0A2A9A67045DE030FC.soma-i-078983d0

 
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http://52.7.39.35/oapi/clickAd;jsessionid=E3F99056EC5DF6D5AAF43DE011636476.soma-i-e231791f

They are either IP-hopping with their ads or the original ones reported yesterday never got filtered out.

 

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http://52.5.114.201/oapi/clickAd;jsessionid=D43E371F797AFC1752B0D31B0096C932.soma-i-026780fd

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http://52.0.43.207/oapi/clickAd;jsessionid=091D24973E802516B75DBE793F3110FE.soma-i-1b667de7

They range from being irrelevant to the content of the site to being related to gambling (which Steve said he opted out of) to near-phishing ones that I mentioned.

ah ay see.

 

Well in that case, all I ever see is ads not relevant to the site and related to gambling, every now and then local based ads (based on my browsing  I guess) but dating and gambling are very frequent, I shall report them from now on.

Some more crap from yesterday and today...is it not possible to block ads from http://52.x.x.x range? Pretty much all of them seem to be rubbish.

 

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http://52.16.79.29/oapi/clickAd;jsessionid=67D1DC3079A5C198802A84ABEC312114.soma-i-26f4a0c2
 

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http://52.4.98.97/oapi/clickAd;jsessionid=FD9B26728FDCF23DB52929A7BFB66987.soma-i-183a5ae4

New advertisement is redirecting on every page i visit from my android except the forums. One of the redirects used an exploit and downloaded a Trojan that lookout antivirus caught. In its current state i cannot see the home page or any news story. Is this what we should expect from neowin going forward?

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I know you guys are busy fighting the good fight with spam, but another bad ad has slipped through under the radar...
 
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http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=Cl7m8EtiuVbebJuGqiQaxx61QwsWewwfqtuvqxAHAjbcBEAEgiIC_FGC7nqqD0AqgAdaE5eIDyAEDqAMByAPBhIACqgSwAU_QEaV6Sfvgb6hea1N8gZoFdoRWruTQbZ4kfXgGAPuJL7kLa9rXyiO_xrVI76E-XFIKuET12MIrm7KnAc0DdrAjPIr1JLYca6Z35djOGIwvjELj4p5ui033YSI16sv64fnD-QRnBXSFW3OkQ8NfNv8F_LAtw65KkjKOn8v0UYfTZlKP1P9pJjJ6c23Vv1lKYJWPQvATcnf9IsqD-xllxmnN5Ct_48Y1ej_K3hg0Qo6DiAYBoAYD2AYCgAeS-5odqAemvhvYBwE&num=1&cid=5GjBTxrSBj5YTEhLdefNXiml&sig=AOD64_0P1rnEzxuvlxtXUFI5zZhw3UvCpQ&client=ca-pub-6163857992956964&adurl=http://www.plus500.com/%3Fid%3D2093%26tags%3Dg_sr%2BUKContentMobile_cp%2BFinance_ag%2Bwww.neowin.net_pl%2Bfinancial%20times_ks%2Bm_de
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