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Blocking advertisers on widgetbucks
Is there a way to block specific advertisers on the advertising network widgetbucks.com? whenever I go to ourspacer.com on google chrome it pops up a message "Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!"
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If using a PC with Windows, you could create entries in your HOSTS file to make it so that requests to those potentially harmful domain names are redirected to localhost (i.e. so that they don't actually grab the content).
You could also install and run SpyBot, its "Immunize" function basically does this and other stuff to avoid malicious sites.
You could also install and run SpyBot, its "Immunize" function basically does this and other stuff to avoid malicious sites.
I am looking to block certain advertisers from advertising on my site, not on my computer. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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Hey, I have a similar probs.The ads shown are not relevant to the category I choose.Can somebody help.The category I choose doesn't show up at all
This happens if you have opted for YieldSense. What YieldSense does it it display ads based on previous click thinking that someone will click on it again or it will display ads which it thinks is relevant to your website ( this information is populated using the content of your website, search engine landing keywords and so on). If you are very specif about having specific ads, turn YieldSense OFF. This should fix it.
I have had this issue before and this is what i learn from investigating it. These are some malicious sites which pose as sellers of products and collect valuable information like credit cards etc. These sites are blocked malicious by google. (Sometimes they actually are not and the google bot is just stupid). What happens is when ads run on your page, each product is linked back to the website through a code in Widgetbucks Javascript. Google sees a link to the malicious page on your page and thinks you are spam too. You would have noticed that these google errors dont happen always, because the products displayed are not the same always. One thing to do is complain to Widgetbucks about this. They will definitely act because it is important to their client database. To fix this on you own is a bit tedious, but will work. Create individual test pages and place individual ad units on them. Index these pages with google. Then access these pages and keep refreshing. The unit units which display false products will be blocked and you will receive a warning from google when you try to access it. Just replace the category of ads in that page
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