Topic: Site Adds/Scams

Usually I wouldn't complain about ads on sites, you guys have to pay the bills somehow, but I think there are a couple of issues I've noticed on this site that are worth pointing out.

Firstly, the subscribe animated banner is..... obnoxious as hell. I'm all for trying to push the subscription (although that price is kinda insane for this site) but animations on websites is a huge no. Even worse I imagine that people who don't have accounts are seeing this which is kinda awful. You need to change it

Secondly, definitely worse, on more than one occasion when browsing on my phone I've been redirected to a gift scam website. Without clicking on anything, just straight redirect to some scummy scam website. As in literal scams, claiming to be my ISP and saying I'm the lucky 100th user just put in my personal details to get a new this or that. Has been happening for the last week or so. It's possible it's not your site but at this point your site is seeming like the most likely cause given it's happened to me several times while visiting here on multiple devices and not for any other sites. So I think you guys need to do some kind of review of the ads here

@skywake thanks for the message, we've heard a couple of people report this over the past week. Unforunately it's relatively normal to get a spike in 'bad ads' around the holidays as the scammers are trying to make the most of people being away.

We use a service called Confiant that is designed to weed out any bad ads within the ad platform that our partners at Ziff use. That should mean anything that pops up will get shut down by those guys, although it is an endless battle within the online advertising space.

Please let me know if it's still happening for you, and if so sending over a screenshot to bugs [at] nintendolife.com would be super helpful for us to pass on to them.

@skywake The obnoxious animated 'subscribe now' ads only appear (at least for me) when I've got my adblocker on - it's regular 'normal' ads if I turn it off.

Glad you are aware of it, because it's been happening for months. I have my Bitdefender extension installed on Chrome and Firefox and it blocks the ads on this site about 90% of the time I come here, with a little pop up warning from Bitdefender. And once I accidentally came to this site on Edge (which I didn't have the Bitdefender extension installed on) and then a new tab opened up with an animation of it "downloading" something and then a fake Norton pop up window saying my computer is infected and needs to be scanned. I terminated Edge and then made sure Bitdefender was installed on it too.

This just happened to me while browsing on mobile. Got redirected to some fake McAfee website that started "scanning for viruses" or something.

@mystman12 don't suppose you managed to get a screenshot did you? or can replicate the behaviour? if you can, please send to bugs [at] nintendolife.com and I can report to the ads team.