Originally posted by: return_to_hades
I'm not sure who IF partners with, but the advertising vendor isn't reputable in my opinion. I've seen way too many "questionable" ads like this rapist radar. I've also seen way too many unsecure ads that run malicious software or with links to scam websites. It is not just IF though. So many websites and blogs on the internet do this.
We only use reputable ad networks like Google Adsense / Google AdX platforms which do have system in place to make sure that no malwares are shown to the users. The ads that are being shown are both based on users search and contextual content on the page. Since we do not have a direct control on which ad to show and not to show as they are daily added and geo-targetted.
However there can be some ads that do slip through their filtering process and are objectionable to the user. We would suggest that such ads can be reported by clicking on the "tilted blue triangle" that comes on the top right side of the banner which will be directly sent to Google as feedback on that particular ad.
We have already reported the "antirape radar" ad to Google and we hope it will be taken off our site soon.
We can guarantee our members is that there are no viruses hosted on any of our servers. Even for user posts we have a pre-post filter which removes all scripts and stuff that can put our users security at risk. We even keep an active watch on the WebMaster reports and alerts sent to us through various search engines like Google and Bing which sends alerts if any embedded images posted by the members which can cause problem to our users we remove them immediately.
We cannot guarantee of the outside links that are posted by the members on the forum and for that we request our members to report such links so that we can remove the same.
No site owner wants their users to be subjected to viruses and other malwares and we have always been extra careful about it.
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