Current Events > Please report the bad ads.

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admin said literally not one ad had been flagged as malicious

I find that hard to believe

Why would you not use adblock

here it is in black and white

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/5/5/AAfPfjAAEIE3.jpg

Id consider it, but the refresh happens before I can complete the form.

So report all ads?

Seems a waste of time when I can just block them.

Id consider it, but the refresh happens before I can complete the form.

Why would you not use adblock

lol nah. I don't work for Gamefaqs, and I don't see ads.

I flag every ad.

or, hear me out on this... site admins could do a better job of vetting the agencies they accept advertisements from instead of just yolo-ing it and then telling the users it's our job to help clean up their fucking mess.

Adblockers aren't set up to block that

What ads?

After picking up a few viruses here and there that I found came from website ads upon investigation, I don't allow them to run anymore, anywhere.

If websites and advertisement companies can't be bothered to protect their users, clearly we just have to do it ourselves. Them having to rely on said users to be their beta testers / guinea pigs is nothing but a goddamn joke.

And yet, I never see a single ad on this website.

Because, no site actually sells ads, apart from maybe local newspaper sites twenty years ago. Sites just copy/paste a mystery <script> tag and expect it to be a magic money button.

Then some rogue ad gets through somewhere, and fed-up end-users pop on an adblocker that hoses every site. Then, seeing revenues are down, desperate sites pack on even more mystery scripts and even more rogue ads slip in, which drives more users to adblockers. Repeat until every website is bankrupt or heavily paywalled.

Adblockers aren't set up to block that,

lol nah. I don't work for Gamefaqs, and I don't see ads.

...and this is exactly why the current internet advertising model is becoming suicidal.

The ads have been obnoxious on this site lately

All these people coming in here who use ad-block and then using this as a platform to shit on the site while going "not my job" like, dude, it's a few clicks for us and it makes their job a million times easier I'd imagine. GameFAQs is not self-owned, the admins of this site especially the one who wrote this response have to answer to someone. You can tell this situation upsets them, you can tell they want to fix it, yet you just have to come in here and be shitty. "Not my job", this is one of the only freaking websites on the web that's not cannibalized and you don't do anything to help preserve that.

For the record, I wasn't even talking about this site specifically. The viruses I've gotten in the past were from other sites.

The point stands that because some sites aren't willing to take basic steps to protect their users, I need to do so myself. And before you say "well this place is trustworthy; why don't you whitelist this site?", the exact same thing was once said about each of the sites I picked up viruses from. Clearly that wasn't the case.

Yeah and that is why I have TWO Ad Blockers running on Firefox and because I have 2 Ad Blockers on Firefox I never see any Ads on this site.

Only having one Ad blocker is just crazy IMO.

Here is proof that having 2 Ad Blockers work:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/8/AAfUmvAAEIMk.jpg

uBlock Origin with 22 blocked and Ad Blocker with 5 blocked.

I never see ads on this site because of that.

it's a few clicks for us and it makes their job a million times easier I'd imagine.

>implying they look at reports
>implying they shouldn't screen ads before putting them into production

Yeah ads died for me when I witnessed, live, my mother get a virus on her computer from an ad on Facebook in like 2010

Maybe I don't understand how viruses work, but don't you have to download something for a virus to infect your computer? How does that happen just from an ad being on a page?