Inappropriate ads

[Nataliedyck]

I understand that ads are necessary to keep things free, but do they really need to be inappropriate? Is there a setting i can choose? I also don’t look stuff like this up so it is not based on my search history

[KlumpyCat]

I think there might be apps you can get to block these type of adds with. But yea, ribblr should NOT have these adds i don’t agree with them especially if theres younger kids that use this app. Thought, i haven’t got any inappropriate adds most of them are for mobile games or candy.

[xXAutumnXx]

I agree, but as ribblr said before they can’t control which ads show up (lemme see if I can find the post)

[xXAutumnXx]

AI in ad-break

Thanks for sharing this! I completely understand where you are coming from. Firstly, I agree it does not sound like a good fit for Ribblr. The good news is that it is likely not something most people are seeing - neither the team nor I have come across this specific ad, or similar ones. The bad news is that we do not have a ton of control over every ad that appears. The way ad-break works is that we connect to multiple partner networks, and then there is essentially a very quick bid for who g…

[strawberrycat49]

yea i really think it isnt a good idea to have such weird adds especially considering the majority of ribblrs users are kids

[peachyxtulips]

i haven’t gotten one as extreme as that, but i have been getting many gambling ones, which i would consider heavily inappropriate for a fiber arts platform. i don’t think ribblr has control over what ads get placed here, like in the post that autumn sent mentioned, but i really wish they could filter it and such.

[nuggiemaster]

I dont think ribblr is able to choose the adds, but it would be a good idea to have a filter go through them all

[Ribblr]

Thanks for reporting! Whilst we don’t control the ads shown, we have partners that apply blockers. For example we have asked them to block these kind of inappropriate ads or political ads etc.

Very rarely something like this can appear if the advertiser does not provide the right information like category for their ad.

We are taking this very seriously and are going to report this immediately to our partners so they can block this advertiser.

If you come across anything like that please send us a PM

[minivrse]

Glad I have an ad blocker so I only get ribblr ads

[Tiddlycrochet13]

hi! what you can try to do is use a private dns server! if you dont know how to do this, go onto settings, search “private dns”, select private dns and put in an adblocking dns server like dns.adguard.com. i use that one, should work for ribblr too i think.

[rumifancrochet]

thats a bad ad

[YodaBear]

Please share your blocker!

[SkeinsofGrace]

Ya I’ve noticed there are a lot of gambling related and ai adds too

[strawberrycat49]

oh no