paper raptor
Ads (for Lords Mobile) by AdColony, when finished, immediately takes you out of the game and opens a link in the web browser (presumably to the Play Store; I've always immediately closed it). No tapping necessary. This is absolutely unacceptable. I've seen a lot of shitty tactics from ad providers, and I can tolerate a fair amount of long wait times, multiple timers and hard-to-tap x'es, but one that reroutes you without consent is basically malware.
Please remove these ads from the game.
wild thunder
Unfortunately, this is not a problem that the devs can fix
It’s the ad providers problem
paper raptor
They can't choose which ad providers they use?
tribal dove
I'm not sure they can, idk how it works
tepid ravine
Ads (for Lords Mobile) by AdColony, when finished, immediately takes you out of ...
Hey the next time when this happens, could you please take a video of it ?
paper raptor
Hey the next time when this happens, could you please take a video of it ?
I'll try!
harsh nicheBOT
This has been added to our bug tracking system as the issue CELL-1829. As we resolve that issue, updates will be posted back here.
autumn raven
Hello - @paper raptor , we 100% agree with you that this is unforgiveable behavior, but unfortunately @wild thunder is mostly right. This is on the ad provider's side, and we have multiple ad networks. The ad networks actually do forbid this behavior, and when we see it we complain to the ad network, and they're supposed to remove the offending ad. But that's all we can do. The only other thing that we could do would be to leave the ad network entirely, but that is like cutting off our nose to spite our face. We would get fewer ads in the game, which means they would be more repetitive, and it still wouldn't fix the problem.
The one thing that could help on top of what we're doing is for you to report the ads, if you can. Some ad networks provide a way to report ads (like Vungle), and if you do that, they do listen to you as much as to us.
paper raptor
@autumn raven I understand, thanks for replying. I was planning on recording the ad in question like was asked, but I haven't seen it since. So maybe the provider already fixed the problem. Let's hope.
autumn raven
Yeah - again, they're supposed to filter those out. Sounds like a success story, though probably a temporary one.
