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  • 17-12-2012 10:06am
    #1
    radiat
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭


    Why are there porn adverts on your website. It's hardly a suitable site for hardcore porn? I hope no children use the site.

    Where you aware of this?
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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,312 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Got any links or evidence to back that up?


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    #3
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,507 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    the ads are targeted based on your browsing history, no?


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    #4
    radiat
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭radiat


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056833634

    just about every page i look at. There's a time and place for looking at porn. I don't want to see it everytime i log in.


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    #5
    radiat
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭radiat


    i don't use this browser for looking at porn


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    Boards.ie: Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Danny


    Please take a screenshot of the advertisement and email it to hello@boards.ie. Also, if possible please right click on the advertisement and copy the URL it links to and include that in the email so we can get it killed faster.

    Danny


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


    Just to make it abundantly clear, we do not want porn advertised on Boards and if those sorts of ads are slipping through the filter net of what we allow from Google Ads (and the other similar services) then I'll be having some very serious words with our ad content managers about it and making it clear how much of an issue this is.

    As we've said many times before, if people can post specifics of any dodgy ads they see, we can get them nuked much much quicker.


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    radiat
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭radiat


    attached is a screenshot. It's down in the bottom right, as you can see i've only shown the heading as i don't want a record left on the PC.

    The ad is not coming from history as i don't use this browser for porn. If i did (which i don't, ahem) i'ld use a different hidden broswer. I use private browsing, i mean i would use private browsing and select reset browser when finished. This deletes all history and cookies etc.

    I know i'm joking but it would be a different situation altogether if children came across it. Actually, if it's been there a while they probabley have.

    Jesus, the more i think about this the more serious it gets. I'm guessing you've deleted the adds at this stage as i can't find any to give you a URL.

    Thanks, but please do your best to keep the porn off.


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    radiat
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭radiat


    That ad was there last night too. I thought it was only there because it was night time, I don't know how long it was there before that.


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    GRMA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭GRMA


    radiat wrote: »
    attached is a screenshot. It's down in the bottom right, as you can see i've only shown the heading as i don't want a record left on the PC.

    The ad is not coming from history as i don't use this browser for porn. If i did (which i don't, ahem) i'ld use a different hidden broswer. I use private browsing, i mean i would use private browsing and select reset browser when finished. This deletes all history and cookies etc.

    I know i'm joking but it would be a different situation altogether if children came across it. Actually, if it's been there a while they probabley have.

    Jesus, the more i think about this the more serious it gets. I'm guessing you've deleted the adds at this stage as i can't find any to give you a URL.

    Thanks, but please do your best to keep the porn off.
    That's disgraceful.


    I hope the powers that be have sorted it. As I'm sure they will


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    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    GRMA wrote: »
    That's disgraceful.


    I hope the powers that be have sorted it. As I'm sure they will

    I know. They tease us with the Sex & Sexuality forum, the place has no boobage! :eek:

    Now its fake ads for porn and we don't have any here.

    Boards.ie you're big fluffer!!


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