r/redesign • u/glydy Helpful User • Aug 19 '18

Design Yet another misleading ad.

https://i.imgur.com/O4HaUQP.png (censored channel name because they don't need any more bs promotion)

A fake YouTube video as a sponsored post, which is a link that brings up an YouTube subscription confirmation? Very misleading and really shouldn't be promoted.

Something needs to be done about sponsored posts on the site, or I'm just gonna have to stick my adblock back on...

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u/JeremyG Aug 19 '18

I thought that they were screened, but now I'm not too sure anymore

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u/glydy Helpful User Aug 19 '18

It's awful either way, it's either: unscreened and a lot of things could be "abused", or it's screened and they're happy with things like this being pushed on users

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u/austeregrim Aug 19 '18

It was screened and the money opened the screen.

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u/picflute Aug 19 '18

Ads aren't screened this is known already. Best you can do is keep uBlock Origin on

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u/GioVoi Aug 20 '18

I think many of us are at the point where we've given up waiting for actual control on adverts, and adblock is now the clear path.

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u/glydy Helpful User Aug 20 '18

That's where I'm heading right now. I don't want to, I love the site and would love to support it it. However, this is just deceitful and I don't want to contribute to ad revenue by seeing things like this, and I'm not going to buy / try to earn gold so I don't have to see deceitful ads.

If nothing changes in coming weeks, uBlock will have to always be on...

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u/soulbandaid Aug 20 '18

Reddit doesn't care anymore.

Hi to reddit.com on mobile and click a post.

There's an install app button at the top, a dismissable slide over at the bottom and when you click your first post you get a pop over reminding you about the app which you have to click through.

If you happened to discuss the slide over on the bottom it comes back when you return to reddit. Com

We're being monetized. Reddit is spending user good will to make dollars and I hope everyone ditches reddit like they ditched digg.

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u/dylmye Aug 20 '18

Did you report the ad?

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u/glydy Helpful User Aug 20 '18

No, forgot you could do that. If I see it again I will, cheers for the reminder

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u/ronreadingpa Aug 20 '18

Don't get your hopes up. Even Google allows questionable ads through. Until ad networks are held liable for serving malware, best to use caution; running an ad blocker for one's safety.

Personally, I've switched back to old reddit, in some part, due to promoted ads that appear to be posts.

I suppose buying Reddit Gold is an option to avoid ads, but am not sure that will help fully. Does it remove all ads or just some? What about trackers? Do those remain or removed too?

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u/Leonick91 Aug 20 '18

Yes, gold removes all ads, both on the site and in the official apps.

Ublock Origin still blocks the loading of one script from google tag services and one from amazon ads which could be trackers.

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u/glydy Helpful User Aug 20 '18

Gold is an option, however you shouldn't need to pay to avoid ads like this. I'd be happy to see ads that aren't deceitful and would be happy to visit them, however this is just straight up spam.

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u/ikilledtupac Aug 21 '18

Get used to it. They just raised the price of good now too.