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Tagged with advertisement or advertising
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How does Stack Exchange verify an advertiser is adhering to its advertising policies?
According to More network sites to see advertising test [updated with phase 2] the company is experimenting with using an open auction system to serve ads, and still I have no idea how the company ...
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More network sites to see advertising test [updated with phase 2]
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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Thanks to both StackOverflow and Telerik for the awesome promotion [closed]
I had a pretty rough weekend. It turns out I was 95 days into my Fanatic badge and somehow didn't log in on the 96th day. I have no idea how that happened as I had made every attempt to log on every ...
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Is sponsoring a tag open to any company? [closed]
I just saw that Adobe sponsors certain tags. Whoa! Very cool. A welcome and smart way to bring users and company together in a way that benefits everyone involved - exactly the kind of advertising we ...
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Weird scrollbar on "Report this Ad" popup
The "Report Ad" popup has a weird and disabled scrollbar on the right side:
Windows 10, Firefox 94.0.2 (64-bit)
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Make it clear that advertisements are "official" and not spam or part of the answer
Today I saw this, and on first glance it looked as if the advertisement was part of the answer:
On first glance it's not trivial to spot it's not part of the answer, and the small Like/Dislike ...
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Ban ImageShack images because they are reusing old URLs for advertising
There's a very popular topic on Stack Overflow's Meta asking to Ban ImageShack Images. This was created because ImageShack deletes old images to free up server space, making images within older posts ...
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Exclude Careers favourites from advertisements [closed]
The Careers advertisement box on Stack Overflow always shows jobs I've already favourited on Careers.
As users already know their own favourites, it is useless to advertise them again.
The job-...
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Prevent all caps titles in Careers posts [closed]
Could we implement some rules about all caps titles in Careers posts ? We have the quality filter to deal with questions/answers in all caps on the main site, but there doesn't seem to be anything ...
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SE ads bug - question advertises itself [duplicate]
I was browsing rpg.se when I came across an ad for a question that was also on rpg.se - then... wait a minute... it's advertising for itself!
I don't know the algorithm that picks the questions - but ...
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Personalization of Careers advertisements [closed]
I get a lot of Careers ads which don't really suit my expected position. E.g. I see myself more in the c# world than in java. Some may say the language does not matter, but my personal feeling is that ...
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Can the allowed cities for the Careers ad be specified? [closed]
I see many Careers ads in Stack Overflow right sidebar. However, most of them are in a city that I would never move to (although it is relatively close to me). Is there any way to exclude job offers ...
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Kind, courteous, inclusive, intolerant of bigotry, racism, etc. Fine, I agree. Now what about my feelings as a mod?
Some background for those who don't know me: I have been involved in SE for more than 5 years and have been a moderator (activity now suspended) on Parenting for several of them. My background is ...
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Why am I suddenly seeing ads on Ask Different and other sites?
Why was this Stack Exchange site (Ask Different) and others suddenly filled with ads? It wasn't so before. It's annoying trying to navigate through the ads, which fill the page when I open a question. ...
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Banner ads should not be shown on the right-hand ad slot
The banner ads are in the wrong format for the right-hand ad slot:
These kinds of ads are not useful (because most of it is cropped) and should be excluded from being shown in that spot.
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Internal ads appear to link to external ad network (Google ads)
Sorry for asking a question of potentially very short validity. (Though it's been this way for at least one week.)
I've noticed that the ad that sometimes appears in the side column on the right on at ...
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Can I disable a specific annoying advertisement?
I don't mind advertising in general on S[OFU], but I don't like a specific one. Is it possible to ask that you don't see a specific advertisement again, without doing some Greasemonkey magic?
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The Activity Data section of the user settings page is misleading
The new advertising policy states:
Retargeting pixels are allowed for a limited number of vetted and pre-approved Programmatic partners.
On the settings page of my profile it states:
Stack Overflow ...
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"Report Ad" with diagnostic information fails in Firefox
In Firefox, when I checked "Share diagnostic information" on the advertising report form and submitted it, an error occurred and I was unable to report it. This seems to be because navigator....
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Update to our Advertising Guidelines
Today, we have updated our Advertising Guidelines as follows:
“Retargeting pixels are not allowed on any campaign. allowed for a limited number of vetted and pre-approved Programmatic partners.”
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Will the tracking pixels replace the existing advertiser tracking?
The company has recently announced a change to its advertising practices: they plan to allow the use of tracking pixels by select advertisers. I am under the impression that this is merely formalising ...
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Inappropriate ad: online gambling on Music SE
I have repeatedly been shown this ad for an online gambling site on Music SE:
While (heavily regulated) gambling is legal in my jurisdiction, I consider advertisements for online gambling to be ...
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Alpha test for short survey in banner ad slots starting on week of September 25th on SO
TL;DR: Starting on the week of September 25th, we will be showing a short survey in the banner ad slots on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange tech sites.
[EDIT: Since this post was created, some ...
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What constitutes an affiliation disclosure?
The guidelines for expected behavior state:
The community tends to vote down overt self-promotion and flag it as spam. Post good, relevant answers, and if some (but not all) happen to be about your ...
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Can advertorial blog posts be clearly and consistently marked as such?
The conclusion of the latest blog post, titled "Why the number input is the worst input", is:
I felt compelled to build my own form builder [...] Your last option is to do what I built for ...
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Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
I often have my browser's devtools open since I'm often debugging a snippet. I noticed this message often recently:
Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
Update.
I see it's from an ad(?).
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Introduce an optional "SE Gold" subscription so that we can support SE directly without ads + tracking + venture capital
As an alternative to peddling ads and tracking, building Fortune 500 SaaS, and raising endless venture capital funding rounds, Stack Exchange should investigate an optional tier of monetary support ...
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We're testing advertisements across the network
For several years we've had advertising solely on technology-related sites. But many of our sites aren't about technology at all, so we haven't sold ads for them. Traditionally, that hasn't been a ...
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Stack Overflow is not trying to start audio
After a thorough investigation and inquiry, we were able to get an update on this. The ads in question were not intending to start audio but were rather checking to see if there was an audio player ...
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Partner content on the blog - what's the value of these?
The Stack Overflow blog was historically a means of communication for the company to the community, and eventually ended up being a way for the company to communicate with potential users of their ...
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All sites have switched Ad Servers on October 1 2017
We have switched our 3rd party ad server from Adzerk to Google/Doubleclick for Publishers (DFP) on Oct 1 2017
TL;DR: Because most of the work is on the back-end, you won’t notice significant changes. ...
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Remove Shell company's advertisements?
I reported 3 of Shell's ads:
which were shown on Stack Overflow.
This ad is offensive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnQSa_AVpSo,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uuW4AP8M4M and
https://www....
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Inappropriate weight loss ad on The Workplace, ELU, and Travel
Technically I guess this might be site-specific (so migrate if needed), but as the official announcement on ads says the following, I'm reporting it here for the time being1. Additionally, the way I ...
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The page on the site ru.stackoverflow.com is going crazy!
After visiting any question this happens:
I tried to open the site on different browsers (Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge) - it did not help. I'm using Windows 10.
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Very small vertical space between advertisement and question text
On sites where I see advertisements the vertical space between the ad and the start of the question is very small. Example from SFF:
This is distracting to read, and it seems to be inconsistent with ...
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Stack Overflow doesn't render some pages in Chrome with my Google profile
I have a Stack Overflow account linked to my Google profile. I have had difficulty loading many pages over the last month or perhaps longer.
For example, this SO page.
Some pages render fine, but ...
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Who is David? And why is he using the Android Stack Exchange client?
I've actually heard this asked a few times on chat, and I'm downright curious - Who is this David, and why is his use of the SE Android app important?
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Podcast advertising by spammers?
In podcast episode #482 I was somewhat disturbed to hear an ad for turing.com
I don't particularly perceive them as a spammer, and actually don't have much of a perception of them as a company at all; ...
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Can the "Sponsored by AWS" message be made smaller (less annoying)?
Looking at Ask Ubuntu, the "Sponsored by AWS" is... large on mobile. For reference, this is how it would look on an iPhone 12 (I'm using device emulation for the screenshots hence why I'm ...
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Advertising downvote - still shown up [closed]
Allthough I have been downvoting GTA5 ads on Stack Overflow several times I am still getting them repeatedly.
I had a look at my cookie settings according to the question "How long does it take ...
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Today's (possibly) inappropriate ad: possible stem cell scam on Biology
Actually I'm rather asking for clarification about this one, honest. On the one hand, the ad itself isn't that inappropriate, on the other hand, it advocates a new kind of treatment with zero side ...
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Would it make sense to provide more targeted SO careers ads, e.g give the users some power over what they see? [closed]
For instance, if I were to jump the ship, I have certain geographical areas in mind. Also, while the tags of the question that I am viewing should help, there are jobs in certain languages that I ...
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How is Stack Exchange Inc dealing with current and future business with Russian entities?
I've been putting off asking this question for a while, but it came up in the comments for the question about Stack Exchange Q&A access in Russia and is worth addressing.
While I consider public Q&...
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I am getting ads for irrelevant jobs from careers 2.0 on right panel of Stack Overflow [closed]
I think Stack Exchange should recommend us jobs based on what we are asking and what we are answering, and reputations earned on those things. Stack Exchange has enough data to determine depth and ...
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We're standardizing the sidebar width at 300px on all sites
Update: this change is now live across the network. You'll still see some narrow 220px ads because it's going to take us a good while to update all of the old ads, but if you see any other style ...
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What do icons on the tags mean?
What does an icon on the tag mean, for example the "rg" before the sql-server tag as pictured below?
Return to FAQ index
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How successful has Stack Exchange's "teams" been so far?
How successful has the Private Q&A option been so far?
Free up resources
It’s expensive and time-consuming to answer the same questions over and over. By making the right information ...
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The future of Community Promotion, Open Source, and Hot Network Questions Ads
September update: The ads are now live! As a way to try to address some of the concerns about the voting period being too short, we're running the selected ads that score 6 or more, or any ads scoring ...
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Is Stack Exchange infected with malware?
I use a Mac with Safari. I have found that when I visit Physics Stack Exchange an app entitled managerpages tries to install itself. Has anyone else had this problem?
Update: I have now experienced ...
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Today's inappropriate ad: Playboy model on Biology
Three days ago, I wrote:
Yeah I'm aware that "a tool to manage ad experience" is currently being developed, but as long as it's not available, I'll keep on reporting these. I'll also keep on ...
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