Follow back pls 
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I donāt even use the website you shared.
:/
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Oh, go to https://fedi.tips if you want to learn more about it
Also i just got a suspicious ad here in the forum. Let me know if admin want a screenshot proof.. 
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Thanks for sharing. Iāve been getting so fed up with facebook and x (formally twitter) of late. Too much politics and hate.
Might have to sign up, see if I can find a nicer corner of social media to hang out in
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Totally not me realising i have an account on Mastodon after getting my mailbox cluttered with new forum posts xd
(I genuinely have no idea why the website defaults to German all the time, lol)
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I completely believe you if you say you got a suspicious ad. No need to prove anything.
And with or without a screenshot: I canāt help you with that.
If you think the ad is malicious, there should be a little icon next to it that lets you report the ad to Google. Please do that instead. There are like 4/5/6 figure number of ads that are displayed to different users, I canāt just find the ad you saw.
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In that ad the only buttons i see is unmute and pause. I donāt see any āiā icon anywhere, so itās from a different ad provider..
Follow back, please
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@Thewebuser22 we miss your pictures and regular forum posts !
Are you at your grandparentsā again?
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I also have an account on Mastodon, though I never actually shared it nor used it until now:
I also leaked my real name (and my face) again, but considering that my formerly Twitter account actually has my real name on it, and so do my social accounts but YouTube, I guess Iām not that scared now to leak it 
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Still suspicious (the last one was on suggestive category), but iām betting on IF using the same ad provider as those low quality mobile gamesā¦
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I wouldnāt say it would be an IF thing.
It might be your Ad Token, or Ad ID, or whatever it is called.
If you reset the Ad ID, which might be in the settings of your phone, it should help clear out the sketchy game app ads.
Donāt quote me on that, because I donāt know much about ads.
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Well these ads on are the web, so they are being hosted on IFās website, but they use AdChoices (Google, Amazon, and some others), so blame them.
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It is referred to as āPersonalized Ads,ā which Google recommends based on usersā interests. Additionally, the admin is not utilizing any other ad providers besides Google(to my knowledge). I, too, have noticed personalized adsāmore specifically, localized ones. This likely depends on your location.
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After i simply hold down on the video ad, and download it to see the origin domain, itās from Mintegral. @Admin do you utilize it?
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I always have Personalised Ads turned off, though Iām not completely sure as Iām not logged into anything at the moment besides here lol
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AdChoices is not an ad provider, itās more like a consent management agreement between different ad networks.
The forum ads are handled by AdSense. Google is by far the biggest ad network in the world. Android apps also generally use Googleās advertising integration. So it makes sense that you might see the same ads in both places.
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yeah that makes sense (thereās a differece between AdChoices and AdSense?)
Yep, as confirmed with a 3 second wikipedia search
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Yep!
we miss your pictures and regular forum posts !
Motivation to speak here has been hardā¦ IDK why. I guess I got out of the habit. There are so many things I want to do but Iāve fallen plague to social media and quick dopamine 
But since Iām on break and have more time, Iām gonna try to be more active here I think. Weāll see. I donāt have a website here anymore, but I still like helping people out when I can!
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