Those [expletive] 'Evony' Ads

[Immelmann]

THEY'RE EVERYWHERE! (Including the top of this page right now) :eek:

Ack, these ads are driving me nuts, and I figured that, considering they seem to make up 40% of the ads I see during my time on the internet, they warranted a thread. Beyond that is the comment spam you see all over the place. I just can't recall seeing anything go this far, well, ever.

 

Or am I the only one bothered by them?

 

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I kinda wonder how some of them made it through Google's ad criteria. According to their guidelines, those would be considered too racy for them to accept...

[Baltoman]

played that game, got bored, died.

[t.]

Ah I know the one, I laughed at it yesterday. However at work adblock isn't set to exclude TDU:C so I don't see any.

[Immelmann]

I just switched over to Chrome. Oh, how I miss adblock... :(

[Who]

theres something you can use called privoxy, which works on chrome, however it does screw up browsing at times (did to me atleast) as for some reason when using multiple tabs it would change the domain to the first tab (in my case facebook) so i woulld give me:

 

forum.facebook.com/showthread.php?=xxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

which is irritating

[Eudemon]

I've already contacted Google about it, just waiting to hear back from them. Also I think there is a feedback to Google you guys can use to inform them also. I'll try and find the link again.

 

Looks like we're not the only ones: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?tid=7c9ef267b8b3c01f&hl=en

 

Also you can give feedback on the ads here: http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/request.py?display=feedback

 

I've also found via the link above an updated list of blocked sites to filter, hopefully Google will actually take action and get rid of these guys.

[KoenigseggBG]

Can someone brighten me up on what happened cause I can't see that stuff.

[Andreas¹]

I know I've been thinking I see these a lot aswell, not just on TDUC. I haven't been very bothered about them, just thought they are really ugly. :oook:

[Fridge Magnet Rabbit]

im really starting to get annoyed by these evony ads now, on one of my fav sites (not naming) it has 4 ad spots a page, 90% of the time, 3/4 of these spots are evony ads....

[t.]

This Evony crap is on Facebook as well...

[Eudemon]

They are spamming the internet essentially. I think for now we have got rid of them.

[Baltoman]

But the game is kinda cool!

[BioHazard7911]

But the game is kinda cool!

 

I never played it, never will, they should really get rid of it. Its on ANY SORT OF FORUM I go onto.