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`anna Apr 13, 2007, 10:19:19 AM
There have been some concerns raised about inappropriate ads popping up on our site. Let me assure all of you that we do not tolerate this on dA. However, these advertisers run on networks and do not deal with us directly so it is a little hard to track them down. If you see an inappropriate ad, please post here with the following information:

1) Your Country
2) Section of Site where you saw the ad
3) Description of ad
4) Screenshot of ad (if possible)

We will deal with this directly and thank you so much!

-= Anna

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~Kroc Apr 13, 2007, 1:29:47 PM
Just an update to before, here's a screenshot of that ad in action. As before, I'm in the UK, near London.

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^kkart Apr 13, 2007, 2:03:59 PM
I got a popup that firefox blogged on the logout page after I had logged out

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~plzen-czech Apr 13, 2007, 4:15:05 PM
Saw this ad [link]

I'm in the UK. The ad was in the banner slot below a deviation. It just strobes between "Do not click! not allowed" (Red on White) and "Under 18 Cannot click" (White on Black).
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~VampireKat22 Apr 13, 2007, 4:35:46 PM
I'm in the USA, and I got this "Firefox blocked a pop-up" message when I cleared the deviations from my devwatch. This has happened before. Should pop-ups be on dA?

Also, for the record, those stupid "Zwinky" ads are really annoying. Don't know if that counts as inapropriate, though xD

[link]

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`anna Apr 13, 2007, 5:49:50 PM
Thanks for the link. :)

There is nothing on that page that should have caused an ad popup to occur. As a part of general policy, we do not allow for popups on dA. I will try to replicate this and track down what's going on, however.

On a side note, annoying does not equal inappropriate... it just means they are merely annoying. The unfortunate thing about annoying ads is that you're more likely to remember them... so in a way they're more effective than unobtrusive ads. Although my preference is for a way cool ad that makes you go "WOAH! That's cool!" and you're likely to remember it for that reason... but that's rare. :)

-= Anna
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~makeo Apr 14, 2007, 1:34:13 AM
i saw that one , it was very annoying

i couldnt really read it well either
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~Kroc Apr 14, 2007, 10:24:53 AM
Here is another, like before. [link] 7.07PM GMT UK London. Thank you.

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~Kroc Apr 14, 2007, 11:07:02 AM
I have another innappropriate ad. 8pm GMT UK London
Advert links to: [link]
Advert image: [link]

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~meth Apr 14, 2007, 11:26:16 AM
what counts as an inappropriate ad? because i've seen a zwinky one before and thought that was a little strange...
is deviantart only supposed to show art-related ads?

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