"Gold and Accounts for Sale" Ads on this Site...

Whilst browsing the site, THIS came up. Not cool.

Unfortunately, because the ads are a service of Google, I don't think GWG has any control over what, precisely, is being displayed. Some of the ads are good and are for things I would use, whilst others are crap like this.

If this is a repost, then delete it, I apologize. But it's very difficult to search for something like this, "Gold and Account Sales" yields half the board in results. ^_^

Thought I'd make everyone aware. Fore more information on Google ads, check http://www.google.com/ads/

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NOTE: Looks like I was incorrect, these are NOT Google ads. Scroll down for admin's post.

Nice catch.

Let's just hope it's the last out.

Yes, I noticed that before. Quite ironic huh?

What I think is complete and utter irony... is that ad showed up for me when I viewed this thread. Talk about the irony... a thread talking about crappy google ads advertising GW gold... just to have that very add show up...

Attachd is a cut-off screenshot I took of it. damned ironic...

Good thing I have an ad blocker. I love Firefox.

And I always wondered why that gap was up there... lol

Heh, I didn't even know there were ads in this site before I saw your screenshot :P *hugs Firefox*

How do you guys block those adds, im using the latest version of firefox and I can still see then, did you download a speciall add on or something?

EDIT: Ok, forget that, I "thought" I was using the latest version, I was using 1.0.4, not .6.

EDIT2: Ok, im still getting the adds...

Firefox is ALL about extentions.
Get ad block.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/21767786/

Heh...

I found the extensions pages and went nuts, there were so many good ones, although I went a bit OTT with the adblock and seemd to have removed the big GuildWarsGuru symbol thing from the top of the main page.

Quote: Originally Posted by corax5

Aaah, Thanx, I wasnt sure what to disable so I just did it all. So I cleared the list and realised some stuff actually say img or ad in the names.

Take a look at the SS, I use FF, but I still see the ads I should get AdBlock.

Any comment from the site owners as to this issue? Nerf ads!

Isn't selling unofficial/unaproved strategy guides illegal? o.o

Oh I guess not. How do they manage to get a loophole for selling accounts? Same as the gold "you're paying for time spent" one?

*shrug* I don't know. But as far as strat guides go, they usually just compile info from fansites to create those guides. Since the material isn't copyrighted, I think they can claim it for their own.

Copyright laws aren't particularly well refined. =/

Quote: Originally Posted by Luggage

thanks for the ad pics guy, and I apologize for the ads, these ads were not supposed to be showing up, we had them removed and now they suddenly popped up again, and again I am in contact with our advertiser to get them removed, they're not Google btw

Keep in mind people, those ads do NOTHING to your entire performance on the forums. If you ever wish to help out and keep us around, the odd click on them always helps out the website!

Again, blocking them doesn't help the forums to load any faster.

Do you get paid everytime someone clicks on an ad? Do you get a small profit from them just being there?