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Hack ads
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:02 pm
by rbt
I've been an enthusiastic participant in WR this past month, even making alts on a couple most needed realms to try to help get better data there. Today I saw a banner ad for a program to hack and give a char higher attributes. I want nothing to do with hackers and will not support a site that takes their ads. Which means it's time to say goodbye and remove Census Plus.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:09 pm
by Babs
This site, and everything related to Warcraft Realms has nothing to do with Hacks, Cheats, powerlvling service or anything.
Its just a nice way to make money to keep servers up, since Rollie gets payed for showing them.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:47 pm
by Rollie
Can you please point out the ad or URL where the ad comes from? It is likely a google ad which I can easily ban, but I need to know where the ad is coming from.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:54 pm
by Rollie
I tried to find an ad for what you describe and I could not get anything like that to show up. If anyone sees ads for cheats/hacks/exploits, please let me know so I can get them removed. Most of the advertising here is served from 3rd party networks so I don't always know exactly what is showing up.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:01 pm
by rbt
1st, very sorry for assuming you'd given the ad your ok.
Here's the link:
*LINK REMOVED BY ROLLIE*
Shows up at the top when I click on US Realm data.
I appreciate your principled stand and will stick around. I look forward to continuing to contribute data.
rbt
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:44 pm
by Rollie
Does it show as a google ad? I am assuming so, but it's not displaying for me. At any rate, adding this site to my banned list for google.
Also, I edited out the link now that I have it to remove.
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:03 am
by DM.
Yay Rollie! =D
Gone with the hack ads! Muahahahaha!
You know you can always donate a little bit to become a premium member and get rid of the ads for good:
http://warcraftrealms.com/donate.php
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:25 pm
by rbt
As soon as I posted that link I realized I should have emailed it to you, but I had to run. Thanks for removing it from my post and removing the ad from the site. I look forward to helping update your data.
rbt
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:41 pm
by Skyfire
I guess we're resorting to holding our Censusplus.lua files hostage now.
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:09 am
by Babs
Just logged into an other computer now, and there are loads of these Google adds with gold selling/powerlvling sites...
THEY ARE ALL OVER TEH PLACE
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:05 am
by DM.
World of Warcraft.... and Google ads = Gold Selling + Power Leveling ads =(
You'll notice very similar ads are found on sites like Thottbot and Allakazham as well cause they use Google Ads =(
Can't really go to any WoW site without seeing them. So just live with it and don't click on it =)
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:08 am
by Rollie
Secondary market and pl ads are not currently banned, but any hack/cheat/exploit ads are removed as soon as I'm aware of them.
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:23 am
by Babs
or, install addblock plus, and block google adds
works for me.
oh, wait. There are also non googleadds. There are 3 squares on the main site, and there is one on the Character page.