Oh, those hilarious Evony ads...

[Mathew_Freeman]

With all due respect, folks, "me too" posts aren't terribly useful; I'm more than aware of the general opinion of the ads. The position we're in is that we can't cut of the ads without cutting off Google completely - and doing that kills us permanently.

Suggestions or solutions will be more than gratefully received! One angle might be how to replace Google Adsense with actual advertisers.

My current though is to pay someone (commission based, say 10%) to act as aproactive ad manager for EN World and actively pursue potential advertisers. I've tried it before, though, and enthusiasm for the job drops off very quickly!

Morrus, thanks for putting up that info about the problems with the ads. I appreciate that you're taking this seriously.

Hopefully the company will go bankrupt soon or something.

 

[Mark]

Ignore boobs?!?

You, sir, must have a truly epic will defense.

It's no trouble at all, thanks to my new invention: Blind-Focals.

 

[Fifth Element]

Morrus, thanks for putting up that info about the problems with the ads. I appreciate that you're taking this seriously.

Hopefully the company will go bankrupt soon or something.

Some apparently think he's making half a million per day. That seems a bit daft to me, but I guess you never know.

 

[Plane Sailing]

If you check this google thread, the post on 15th July by AdSensePro Policy seems promising.

Filtering Evony Game Ads - AdSense Help

Fingers crossed, eh?

 

[reveal]

If you check this google thread, the post on 15th July by AdSensePro Policy seems promising.

Filtering Evony Game Ads - AdSense Help

Fingers crossed, eh?

I sent that link and the URLs to Morrus last night. Hopefully he'll be able to filter them out.

 

[JohnRTroy]

Morrus,

How much would an ad-free day cost ENWorld? Maybe a few of us could sponsor an ad-free day where you disable the ads for 24 hours and we pay you for that ad-free day?

 

[Orius]

Weirdly, I never get them. I just hear about 'em.

How is that even possible? Evony is all over the place with those silly ads.

And we've been ripping on the ads for that last month and a half over in the Hive:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/off-topic-forum-currently-named-hapax-legomenon/257071-evony-ad.html

And I've been reading some of the blogs linked to here, and then followed some links in them to more. From what I've been reading, Evony is a game created by gold farmers in China to make money off people paying for items in the game. I don't have a problem with that in and of itself but there's more. They're engaging in massive copyright infringements, with stolen images for their ads and in-game content. The software itself is buggy if it's not actually malware. There's some concern that the software can steal personal information from one's computer and install Trojans. All I can say if that I'm glad my initial reaction to the game's ads were "This must be crap", and I didn't bother trying it.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I sent that link and the URLs to Morrus last night. Hopefully he'll be able to filter them out.

There are problems filtering out URLs because of their practices.

The point of my link to that thread is the information that the Google AdSense specialists have now been informed.

Thanks for bringing these ads to our attention. I've escalated these ads to our AdWords specialists for review.

You can provide ad feedback to the AdWords team at Contacting Support - AdWords Help . However, in this particular case, keep in mind that I'm already escalating this thread to their attention, so you don't need to submit anything that has already been mentioned.

It is likely that this will only be resolved by Google.

Cheers

 

[CapnZapp]

I've noticed that these latest Evony ads appear to be flash-based. Is blocking flash ads an option?

Yes, and it is easy too. Just switch to Firefox and install Flashblock.

 

[Asmor]

Yes, and it is easy too. Just switch to Firefox and install Flashblock.

I meant server side.