MacRumors advertising SCIphone...wtf?

[Prophet2271]

Logged in this morning to check the latest goss and saw that one of the side adverts on the Front Page is for a Chineese fake iPhone. Whats the go with that?? 🙄

 

[Intell]

Macrumors does not control what advertisements appear on site. They subscribe to a ad agency and ads are pulled from a pool of ads.

 

[kuebby]

Intell is right, not that it isn't a little ironic. I've seen ads on MacRumors for Windows Mobile, etc and I always think it's kinda funny...

 

[The Californian]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

If you feel that ads are intrusive or inappropriate you can report them in the "Site and Forum Feedback" sub-forum. Just make sure to include a screen capture of the ad and the link that the ad directs to.

 

[Maverick1337]

I think that phone looks better than the iPhone 4.

The tilted home button is definitely a plus.

 

[labman]

Many sites and forums do this. Google does not let you handpick. I have seen sites that are covered with adds for paid jailbreaks and unlocks that I know 100% they are against. this forum and other sites have to cover the cost of running them somehow.

 

[wovel]

Many sites and forums do this. Google does not let you handpick. I have seen sites that are covered with adds for paid jailbreaks and unlocks that I know 100% they are against. this forum and other sites have to cover the cost of running them somehow.

They absolutely do let you exclude sites based on where they link to.

Macrumors does not control what advertisements appear on site. They subscribe to a ad agency and ads are pulled from a pool of ads.

It is an Adsene Ad and Macrumors (or any adsense customer) can (and should) exclude advertisers by domain. The Ad is still showing today, it is ridiculous.

All they have to do is get the actual domain the ad goes to and add it to the competitive ad filter. I did not notice an affiliate service so just excluding http://www.tradetang.com/ should do the trick.

 

[Consultant]

Fake products probably falls under this:

https://macrumors.zendesk.com/hc/en-us#What_do_I_do_about_annoying_ads.3F