TDRAdmin4
Staff Member
They are served through Google Adsense. We can filter out broad categories. But there are hundreds of thousands of advertisers, and many sneak in under the radar miscategorizing ads on purpose, and in this case some have found a way to make their ads unclickable.
And we can filter out individual ads, and individual advertisers so all their ads get blocked. But there are so many ads to review, it's not humanly possible for one person to find them all. The ad review center lists them from those which show most often to those which show less often. I'm going through the more often to middle items daily, but that's as far as I can go because there are literally over 100,000 thousand in the review center. Google is slowly cleaning them up as well, but they have millions to go through and ban.
The problem is these rogue advertisers are using a legititate advertising tool and abusing it. With rich media ads an advertiser can make different parts of the ad click to different destination pages. Dodge/Ram does it for instance. What the rogue advertisers have done is only define one clickable area and made it so small its unlikely to get clicked. Its hard to detect programatically (for now), hence having to review them with actual human eyeballs.
And we can filter out individual ads, and individual advertisers so all their ads get blocked. But there are so many ads to review, it's not humanly possible for one person to find them all. The ad review center lists them from those which show most often to those which show less often. I'm going through the more often to middle items daily, but that's as far as I can go because there are literally over 100,000 thousand in the review center. Google is slowly cleaning them up as well, but they have millions to go through and ban.
The problem is these rogue advertisers are using a legititate advertising tool and abusing it. With rich media ads an advertiser can make different parts of the ad click to different destination pages. Dodge/Ram does it for instance. What the rogue advertisers have done is only define one clickable area and made it so small its unlikely to get clicked. Its hard to detect programatically (for now), hence having to review them with actual human eyeballs.