Ads

I'm looking at the front page of DCEmu and this ad is up there:


Dreamcast backups $4 Each
Plenty of titles to choose from. All the popular game titles.


Someone might want to complain to google about this one, if they aren't selling original copies...

EDIT: Yeah, I just visited the site and they're talking in their FAQ about needing boot discs and not coming with manuals or anything. Any mods wanna email me at the normal place I'll give you the URL the link leads to.

EDIT 2: I just submitted a comment to the AdSense people on Google about that site the ad links to and told them that legitimate DC sites don't want to be associated with such BS (I'm sure you guys don't!), and to please remove it!

Google is completely assinine in the handling of their ad system.

Both the staff of DCEmu.co.uk and it's host, NGEmu, know of the ads - there was another one on there that was spotted and posted on the staff forum.

As I posted in staff, I don't get why Google doesn't have "backups" in a word filter for their ads or *gasp* actually screen the ads before they put them into their system.

I'm sure it all equates to revenue. Google would rather get the cash from advertisers than have a legal ad system.

I wish people wouldn't use Google ads at all because of this - but in today's market there's really no alternative that gives the kind of revenue Google ads do. When you give free hosting, and still need to pay for bandwidth, there's really no alternative.

Google should be held responsible by the IDSA (or what ever they are now) in my opinion for promoting these "services", as they do very little to keep them off their system. Maybe that would wake them up, and they'd actually become a legitimate ad banner system.

Yeah, it's a problem... maybe the dcemu admins can put a little thing about the banner that says something like "DCEmu.co.uk is not responsible for the content of this ad:" just so people realize they aren't promoting warez.

[quote author=Dan Potter link=board=off;num=1102641730;start=0#2 date=12/09/04 at 20:25:13]Yeah, it's a problem... maybe the dcemu admins can put a little thing about the banner that says something like "DCEmu.co.uk is not responsible for the content of this ad:" just so people realize they aren't promoting warez.
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That's actually probably the best feasible idea anyone's come up with concerning those Google ads. For as many times people have complained about them to Google, they are still there.

as meta said only last week i spotted a "bad" add, and i filled there feed back form complaining, straight away i got a generated email "thank you for your feedback.... bah bah" i thought nothing more of it. then a week later i got a new email from them saying

Quote:

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Hello,

Thank you very much for bringing this issue to our attention. I have
forwarded your finding on to our team of specialists for further
investigation.

We appreciate you taking the time to offer us this feedback and encourage
you to continue to let us know how we can improve Google AdSense. Google
is always working to optimize our services. Your feedback is vital to the
success of this program.

Sincerely,


The Google AdSense Team

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so at least the know about it know..... but i wonder if they will do anthing (the add was for DVD roms)

[quote author=Dan Potter link=board=off;num=1102641730;start=0#2 date=12/09/04 at 20:25:13]Yeah, it's a problem... maybe the dcemu admins can put a little thing about the banner that says something like "DCEmu.co.uk is not responsible for the content of this ad:" just so people realize they aren't promoting warez.
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That is a very good idea, i will consider adding it.

jesus christ i dont understand how they keep getting through the net

Martin 64 our host is always getting rid of these inappropiate google ads

google should really sort their house out

as soon as i catch Martin ill ask him to try and get rid of them.

For the time being, I've gone ahead and added a small disclaimer around the ads on the forums.