Oh, those hilarious Evony ads...

Obryn

Hero

• Jul 13, 2009

• #1

Just wanted to point out a new Gawker article about these things.

And yes, I think the ads are all about the boobage.

Everything That's Wrong with the Internet in One Videogame's Banner Ad Campaign

-O

 

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Asmor

First Post

• Jul 13, 2009

• #2

Jeff Atwood has a great commentary on their ads at his blog Coding Horror: How Not to Advertise on the Internet

I actually came here to complain... I don't mind advertisements as a general rule, and I'm a huge fan of porn, but I browse ENWorld at work and frankly their newest ad showing here (painting of a blonde in black lingerie with ample cleavage) is large, obvious, and it would be embarassing if someone walked in and saw it on my monitor.

I specifically have ENWorld on AdBlock's whitelist to allow ads to be shown on these pages, and Evony's advertisements are strongly making me rethink that decision.

 

Harley Stroh

First Post

• Jul 14, 2009

• #3

Same.

In full disclosure, I don't usually log in, so 90% of the time my paid ad-blocker status isn't effect. This afternoon I was sitting in a coffee shop, working on project. I tried to surf ENworld only to find I had to close the window every time someone walked behind me ... otherwise I'd look like I was surfing soft porn.

Now I'm at home, doing the same thing every time my wife walks by.

Lame.

On the amusing side, imagine how many people would switch to paying accounts if you had some hard porn ads.

 

Last edited: Jul 14, 2009

Vorput

First Post

• Jul 15, 2009

• #4

I'm going to chime in my opinion as well on these ads treading dangerously closely to NSFW.

 

wedgeski

Adventurer

• Jul 15, 2009

• #5

Might I just add my voice to this. I'm not sure what course of action I'm advocating or even if there should be one, but those ads don't seem appropriate for ENW. (I also deliberately leave the top banner ad enabled in my settings, by the way.)

 

Mathew_Freeman

First Post

• Jul 15, 2009

• #6

I'd also like to state that I am unhappy with those ads.

 

Morrus

Well, that was fun

Staff member

• Jul 15, 2009

• #7

They're Google Adsense ads, and we have no control over them, I'm afraid. I guess Google, in all its wisdom, has deemed those ads to be the most appropriate to show you guys.

Weirdly, I never get them. I just hear about 'em. I keep getting ads for minis on eBay! Which is weird given that I've never browsed for minis on eBay in my life! Some screwy algorithms at Google HQ is y guess.

 

stonegod

Spawn of Khyber/LEB Judge

• Jul 15, 2009

• #8

Morrus said:

They're Google Adsense ads, and we have no control over them, I'm afraid. I guess Google, in all its wisdom, has deemed those ads to be the most appropriate to show you guys.

Click to expand...

You can do filtering on AdSense; Evony (on purpose) and Google (on accident) just don't make it easy. This thread seems to be dedicated to it: Filtering Evony Game Ads (AdSense)

 

Morrus

Well, that was fun

Staff member

• Jul 15, 2009

• #9

Unfortunately, that doesn't woprk in this case:

More about Evony — Bruce On Games

Evony are carpetbombing game websites with these adverts using multiple accounts of Google AdWords. When website owners block one source of these adverts another appears. Site owners have complained repeatedly to Google, but to no avail.

Click to expand...

Essentially, these ads are spam. Blocking one doen't help - a dozen more spring up. Until Google do something about it, we literally have no way we can address the issue (except stop running Google Adsense, but that would cripple us - literally).

 

Kid Charlemagne

I am the Very Model of a Modern Moderator

• Jul 15, 2009

• #10

Well, we could add our voices to those complaining to Google, which might spur them into action.

Incidentally, the ads use infringed photos that they don't have license to use - as does the game itself - and this violates Google's terms of use for adsense. If you feel like it you can report the ads for copyright infringement to Google.

http://www.google.com/adsense_dmca.html#notification

 

Last edited: Jul 15, 2009