A solution to the annoying adverts

[Mr Will]

Hey PH Techies! I know how frustrating the annoying adverts problem is from both sides, but another site I visit has come up with a really simple solution: http://road.cc/content/news/230562-bad-ad-update-2...

Much easier than asking the users to describe or screenshot the advert and should make it straightforward to track them down and squash them in double-quick time.

What do you think?

[RacingPete]

Not sure this would fully work for programmatic ads... but would work for ones directly sold. The line item in the ad server would be associated with the third party programmatic partner, and that is what would be shown - not sure if the creative ID of the actual end advertiser shows or would require further analysis downstream to the programmatic partner - though would help spot bad programmatic partners I suppose.

It is just surfacing up the accessible data in the page source.. e.g.

Slot Position: leaderboard1 -->
<!-- DFP Site ID: 10864966 -->
<!-- DFP Order ID: 2149059562 -->
<!-- DFP Line Item ID: 4448782018 -->
<!-- DFP Creative ID: 138211777161 -->

What could make it easier is a report button on the ads that passes this data through, and thus it just requires a click to complain of the ad and the data gets pulled in.