This has to change NOW

[binary solo]

mjk45 said:

binary solo said:
Ads are the way websites that provide a free service pay for themselves and allow the owner and employees to do what they do. So I don't begrudge ads in principle, they are necessary and so I don't block them.

But in practice websites that do not want to be conduits for malware really need to be more discerning about what arrangements they make for advertising content.

I totaly agree, I remember bringing up this topic many years ago ,after I noticed an ad on the site that had an Australian federal police warning put out about it ,, i reported it but didn't get a reply ,sometime later on a thread about the site , I and some one else mentioned these ads , and where told by ioi that we didn't understand how advertising on web sites worked and  they where paid to host a package of ads from a 3rd party, and being in the early stages of growing the site beggars can't be choosers , but  building up time would allow them to be less dependent on those type of ads.

What do you think has it changed much.

You'd think that with the site having been around for a decent amount of time now with a pretty stable rate of monthly visits ioi would be in a position to engage a more reputable ad provider, or start to make demandds about ad quality of the current provider. At some point the advertising agreement must come up for review and there is an opportunity to make life less shit for the users.