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Avoid this site!!
AT the bottom of one of the neomallers pages, under "ads by google" there was a website which "sells" neo-items. Here is the adress: www.shop.neosales.org Inronicly there is a warning against over "neo-black-market" shops. :)
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Thanks for the warning, though i would never visit it.
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That is the main problem with having google ads on a respectable site. The bad stuff can come up also. But of course since dmitri hosts this for us, he needs some compensation:P
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Its to pay for this site that's why there are google ads here. WOW! Selling: Maps, Neggs, Stamps, Coins, Cards, ETC! http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=1434sweet#p
WOW! Selling: Maps, Neggs, Stamps, Coins, Cards, ETC! http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=1434sweet#p
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But can't you stipulate what kind of ads you want? I.e. Buying/selling neopoints apparently violates intellectual property rights so surely you have a valid reason for saying you don't want those type of ads on your site. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=triciaroo Size 362/400 Target date: 31st May 2010
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[quote=Triciaroo]But can't you stipulate what kind of ads you want? I.e. Buying/selling neopoints apparently violates intellectual property rights so surely you have a valid reason for saying you don't want those type of ads on your site.[/quote] Considering that even the ads shown on neopets.com can be questionable some times, where the site is run by professionals for profit... its hardly fair to judge a third party support site, which offers a free service without the right to profit. Because profiting from this site would surely violate neopets conditions. Short answer, no you don't have full control over google ads.
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[quote=deviln3][quote=Triciaroo]But can't you stipulate what kind of ads you want? I.e. Buying/selling neopoints apparently violates intellectual property rights so surely you have a valid reason for saying you don't want those type of ads on your site.[/quote] Considering that even the ads shown on neopets.com can be questionable some times, where the site is run by professionals for profit... its hardly fair to judge a third party support site, which offers a free service without the right to profit. Because profiting from this site would surely violate neopets conditions. Short answer, no you don't have full control over google ads.[/quote] Er... I wasn't 'judging' anyone at any point in my post. I don't see how anything I put could be seen as that, and I never mentioned anything about it being right or wrong to be making a profit from this site. All I said was that what the [b]ad[/b] is advertising is against Neopets T&C's and [i]could[/i], theoretially, be taken further if they had the inclination as it's intellectual property infringement. Running a third party support site isn't infringing on intellectual property, and the copyright statement is at the bottom of each page here, so I'm not sure how what you said was relevant. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=triciaroo Size 362/400 Target date: 31st May 2010
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The worse thing those sites honestly face is TNT contacting Paypal to shut down their accounts. In all reality TNT doesn't ever do anything about those sites and I'm not sure how far legally it could go if they tried to do something about it. Yes they're bad sites, yes what they're doing is wrong, and yes some of those sites are probably scam sites - but not all of them all. So we really can't say don't put that Google Ads. http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=evilbluemunkeyz
http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=evilbluemunkeyz
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[quote=evilbluemunkeyz]The worse thing those sites honestly face is TNT contacting Paypal to shut down their accounts. In all reality TNT doesn't ever do anything about those sites and I'm not sure how far legally it could go if they tried to do something about it. Yes they're bad sites, yes what they're doing is wrong, and yes some of those sites are probably scam sites - but not all of them all. So we really can't say don't put that Google Ads. http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=evilbluemunkeyz[/quote] Although that site has nothing to do with Neomallers, it may look to someone else like it does. And like you said, some of them are scam websites. It doesn't look great if this site is advertising other sites that are quite blatantly breaking T&Cs and putting people's accounts at risk. But I wasn't really talking hypothetically or really even referring to whether it's right or wrong for the sites to be selling the NP. Just a straight forward question - will Google take down an ad if you ask them to? The reason I mentioned intellectual property rights, etc, before was because I imagine that if Google [i]would[/i] change an ad, they would probably want a reason for it and that seems like a good one! :) ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=triciaroo Size 362/400 Target date: 31st May 2010
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THX 4 da tip :)
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[quote=deviln3][quote=Triciaroo]But can't you stipulate what kind of ads you want? I.e. Buying/selling neopoints apparently violates intellectual property rights so surely you have a valid reason for saying you don't want those type of ads on your site.[/quote] Considering that even the ads shown on neopets.com can be questionable some times, where the site is run by professionals for profit... its hardly fair to judge a third party support site, which offers a free service without the right to profit. Because profiting from this site would surely violate neopets conditions. Short answer, no you don't have full control over google ads.[/quote] Lol once on neopets I saw a link to Neopets Cheats, it had programs that would constantly click at games like Destructo match or whatever... Lol how stupid. --- Step outside, take a breath of fresh air, then look down to see if you have a new text message.
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