Are the ads that run on this place scams or not? One I see often pop up is FurFling with it's "Clickbait" (Poorly made clickbait) ads, but it says you have to pay a membership to read ads. I would like some clarification on this subject and if it is a scam, why are we still showing it?

Maria_Kauffman said:
Are the ads that run on this place scams or not? One I see often pop up is FurFling with it's "Clickbait" (Poorly made clickbait) ads, but it says you have to pay a membership to read ads. I would like some clarification on this subject and if it is a scam, why are we still showing it?

They aren't scams, but one of them has an atrocious ad design...

*edit* I had to keep refreshing to find out which one, and it is FurFling that can't do animations, my referred atrocious ad design.

Maria_Kauffman said:
Are the ads that run on this place scams or not? One I see often pop up is FurFling with it's "Clickbait" (Poorly made clickbait) ads, but it says you have to pay a membership to read ads. I would like some clarification on this subject and if it is a scam, why are we still showing it?

Not all the ads are scams, some are good ads

TheHuskyK9 said:
Not all the ads are scams, some are good ads

These days where even a NEWS AGENCY serves ads for those "Free video player" or "Adobe flash update!" ads, It's a valid concern..

Maria_Kauffman said:
Are the ads that run on this place scams or not? One I see often pop up is FurFling with it's "Clickbait" (Poorly made clickbait) ads, but it says you have to pay a membership to read ads. I would like some clarification on this subject and if it is a scam, why are we still showing it?

Insanely related: forum #10410

So TL;DR is that ads are ran by the same company which runs e621, bad dragon and furrynetwork. I'm almost certain that at this point they have made sure not to run any malicious advertisements at least, othervice we would have same ads as every other booru seems to have, including real life pornography, at least 6 banners per page and popup ads which activate when you click anything. I do not judge people who use adblocks because of those sites.

As for furfling, I have no idea what you even mean with "pay a membership to read ads". I do not know about their service much as I haven't at least up to this point registered onto any dating site, but I do know that ads they put out are as is gifs (I think there's at least 10 variations I have seen) and at least their frontpage says that registering there is free. So I don't know what's this about reading ads?

FoxFourOhFour said:
These days where even a NEWS AGENCY serves ads for those "Free video player" or "Adobe flash update!" ads, It's a valid concern..

I think they referred to one specific advertisement which does roll on this site and other sites serving ads from same source. But you are right, there aren't that many places where I would trust to click advertisement on. Newspapers are getting quite desperate to make income as pretty much nobody using any kind of tech doesn't order physical paper anymore.

I feel like at this point Dragonfruit should just open up an ad relay service to help sift out the bad ads and help every site to have benign ads. So many places have intrusive ads, that people don't realize how safe we are here.

TheHuskyK9 said:
Not all the ads are scams, some are good ads

Indeed. Thank you for having one of the few good ones.

Mario69 said:
So TL;DR is that ads are ran by the same company which runs e621, bad dragon and furrynetwork. I'm almost certain that at this point they have made sure not to run any malicious advertisements at least, othervice we would have same ads as every other booru seems to have, including real life pornography, at least 6 banners per page and popup ads which activate when you click anything. I do not judge people who use adblocks because of those sites.

and thankfully, unlike other booru sites, the owners of e621 respect their users choice if some don't want to see ads. other boorus however...well, some like to do things to bypass adblockers. and on top of those, some even go so far as to ask you to disable your adblocker WHILE bypassing said adblocker.

unfortunately, i've found that even Ublock Origin's element blocker function doesn't work in all cases (F you and your eternally unblockable ads, redtube!).

come to think of it. perhaps a term like... "zombied ads" might apply to redtube's ads since you can't kill them all.

There's this one clickbait ad

I actually happen to like the FurFling ads