Hi #CoSo Web Sleuths! Can you help me track down the spread and perhaps the origins of what we've gotten to know at home as the "evil garlic ad"?
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BACKGROUND
This ad is very gross so I won't share an image and ask that no one does on this thread. My husband is most repulsed by it, though I also find it upsetting. It's so bad that he has stopped visiting certain news sites or any websites he used to reguarly visit because it pops up.
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Oh, my friend, this sounds awful. I have no idea what ad you are referencing.
@CajunBlueAZ1 That's good. I'm glad that you don't know what it is. I just thought I'd query since we seem to be plagued by it.
are you talking about green garlic?
@CdnChrisCo It's an ad plugging a garlic-based health supplement. It's just repulsive to look at every time. I can't understand what the advertisers gain from it because it's so off-putting, and it's weird that it pops up here so often. My husband used to read the news from home on sites there and he's had to stop because the ads pop up at random. I get them too on various sites. Maybe it's just being served in Denmark, I'm not sure.
@AmaryllisLanza do you have ad blockers on your browser? that might help. i run 2 different ad blockers (ad block plus & privacy badger) on mine, & don't see many ads at all. you can white list pages like coso so that they don't interfere
@redenigma We tried some, but they didn't work on this menace. We didn't try layering two of them as you suggest. I'm going to suggest it to my husband. Thanks!
If you've seen the evil garlic ad, you'd know, simply from the mention of garlic and the horror.
So if you have seen it, can you confirm?
I'm going to pin this thread and basically try to pinpoint how far it has spread. Maybe it's only being served in Denmark or in Europe. Maybe it's global. I'm not sure.
I know it's a weird request. If you happen to know how we could stop it from showing up, I would appreciate that.