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Pop up ad with (possibly) misleading user choice.

Amalgam · 2014-03-01 17:19:22

I'm using a stock Nexus 5 with Opera and I'm getting pop up ads with, what seems to me anyway, a misleading choice for an end user to make. See below. The natural choice for some folk would be to click 'Okay', in response to, 'Do not show again'. I don't know if the ad is structured that way, or if Opera frames the ad with…

01-03-2014 6:19pm

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Amalgam

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I'm using a stock Nexus 5 with Opera and I'm getting pop up ads with, what seems to me anyway, a misleading choice for an end user to make. See below.

The natural choice for some folk would be to click 'Okay', in response to, 'Do not show again'.

I don't know if the ad is structured that way, or if Opera frames the ad with that user choice.

In any case, if the ad is prompting that choice, I think it is dubious. It certainly isn't a 'passive' ad.

I'm curious how boards.ie perceives this behaviour.

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#2 03-03-2014 12:40pm

Boards.ie: Alvis

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Hi there,

We definitely don't want those ads being served, and thank you for bringing it to our attention. We're talking to our media sales team now about it. It looks like you're browsing the full site on your phone. 1) Do you only see these on the full site? 2) Any pages in particular where they are likely to pop up?

Thanks,
Alvis.

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