Bad Ad Reporting Thread

[Kallyle]

After navigating for about 20 seconds in the mobile site, I get redirected to a site called y631fx43cl.pw, with a popup message "We detected that your Samsung J7 Prime (my phone model) is 28,1% damaged because of 4 virus of adult sites, then, it will corrupt your SIM Card and delete all your files". You guys seriously need to revise your ads provider to avoid situations like that

It's not just a Bulbagarden problem. There's actually a lot of mobile redirects on a bunch of different sites that normally wouldn't be present on such sites. I'm convinced there's some adware that travels to different sites and can detect mobile connections.

Still, it would definitely help for Bulbagarden to investigate this.

 

[Tiddlywinks]

Use this page to report bad ads directly when you find any:
ReportAd

The way that page works, it should be much easier for them to be dealt with than before.

 

[Beth Pavell]

Pretty sure this little bugger isn't supposed to be there if I'm logged in

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[Pep_Dad]

Banner ad for dailybits magazine claims that email registration is the only requirement for entry into their switch lite giveaway. Once you've registered your email you're sprung with an additional referral requirement to be entered into the giveaway. This is a violation of US advertising laws.

 

[Archaic]

Banner ad for dailybits magazine claims that email registration is the only requirement for entry into their switch lite giveaway. Once you've registered your email you're sprung with an additional referral requirement to be entered into the giveaway. This is a violation of US advertising laws.

I've raised your concerns with DailyBits, and they're correcting the wording on their giveaway to eliminate confusion. For the record, email registration (and verification, to prove you're not a spambot) is the only requirement for entry into their giveaway.

 

[Solar Dragon]

I haven't personally seen it this bad, but a screenshot on the Pokemon subreddit is going around. View: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/fbdc6t/i_was_trying_to_read_about_the_crown_tundra/


It shows a Popeye's ad repeated throughout the page, obscuring most of the article.

 

[SpinyShell]

Apologies if this is not the correct thread for this, but I've had several ads obscure previous gen egg move information for several Pokemon such as Slurpuff and Dunsparce. There's an example of one such ad below.

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[Cute Charm]

I don't know if I should revive this thread or not, but every so often when I just want to quickly look up things on my phone, I get an ad for "Fresh", some new Hulu show. The ad is so big I can't search for anything:

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[Salmancer]

Whenever this ad comes up, clicking on the page at all is treated as clicking on the advertisement. Considering that this rule means that I can't use any links on the page without refreshing, it should probably be looked into.

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[Archaic]

Whenever this ad comes up, clicking on the page at all is treated as clicking on the advertisement. Considering that this rule means that I can't use any links on the page without refreshing, it should probably be looked into.

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Can you provide the URL that the ad directs you to? This will make it much easier for our ad networks to hunt down this rogue ad.

 

[Shadao]

I had the same problem. This is the link it leads to: [LINK REMOVED SO WE DON'T GIVE THEM SEO - Thanks for this. We've passed this on to the ad networks to have it purged. They can be a bit slow to cover these things over the holiday period, but hopefully they'll get this done soon. - Archaic]

 

[Maverick Nate]

Do ads normally appear inside of tables? This happened to me earlier and it made the mobile experience really inconvenient for the page I was viewing. Not the worst thing ever, but i wasn't experiencing this before.

 

[Archaic]

They're not meant to appear in tables, no. Though this may be more a coding error rather than a bad ad as such. I'll make sure it's looked into.