Thanks for your patience, what follows it's the result of a joint meeting with our AdOps team and our Managing Director.
Ad Ops has paused the Google Ad Exchange ad serving on SourceForge.net's Apache Open Office project pages. This will continue while the team completes our review of the Ad Exchange blocking rules and controls with the Google team. Having said that, I wish to share with you all some background information about the whole process to ban ads and advertisers that are not compliant with our advertising policies. Ad Exchange blocking rules are our first tool of control to block advertising that is non-compliant with company policy. They are quite effective, though not perfect solutions. Unfortunately when malicious advertisers find a way to fool the system, they are eventually able to inject ads that are confusing. Under the Clean Software Alliance umbrella we're collaborating with them to prevent similar ads to get into the marketplace, hopefully that would help them to refine their policies and tools over time. As a second layer of control, our ad operations department regularly reviews the advertising from the Ad Exchange and manually removes advertising and advertisers that bypass the technology controls. They are at the domain and advertiser-level, and are permanent. We also have had some success with the community feedback element to our ad quality process that includes a community feedback form. This has been helpful for us to improve the timeliness of removing ad violations, but it needs end-users' input. With regard to our direct sales and partner advertisers, they remain active and in full compliance with SourceForge ad quality specifications and policies, and we never had similar issues with them. Stay tuned, I will circle back with you next week with more information on progress with our review of policy and ad quality controls. Thanks, Roberto 2016-01-08 8:54 GMT+01:00 Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net>: > The choice to go with sourceforge was not about stats. OpenOffice binaries > are quite substantial. There was concern about if all the Apache mirrors > could handle the load. > > Patience! Let's see what Roberto has to say. SourceForge has been generous. > > Regards, > Dave > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jan 7, 2016, at 11:36 PM, Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > > > > Apache’s mirrors already have the binaries, and should handle the load. > Are we afraid of losing DL stats, is that why we stick with SF? > > > > -- > > Jan Høydahl, search solution architect > > Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > > > >> 8. jan. 2016 kl. 04.46 skrev Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net>: > >> > >> Hi Roberto, > >> > >> Is it possible for SourceForge to implement an active blocking if any > ad that has "Office" or "OpenOffice" anywhere in the content? > >> > >> I understand there are technical challenges. If that is difficult is it > possible to simply block all ads? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Dave > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >>> On Jan 7, 2016, at 9:19 AM, Roberto Galoppini < > roberto.galopp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Thanks for heads up, both the account and its creatives have been > blocked. > >>> > >>> Roberto > >>> > >>> 2016-01-07 15:38 GMT+01:00 FR web forum <ooofo...@free.fr>: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Today, we have 2 users that have pay for a fake OpenOffice2015 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=Cqhy-1neOVt6KL-WpiQackZzAAYfp7MoH34WD-LgC1MrWdxABIIyB2hdg-4GAgLAKoAGp7IrZA8gBAeACAKgDAcgDmwSqBPsBT9D93xyCmQFS_5cpebROSJIQQYhzPjW-d8gS6i5e9e6WcA9njfDOVKAw8-SrAE-m1FAWOPwK7I8kJLuzeW18mmM3gOHS1aSw4C6NYt0wS9AKBjIPEo_getXfGxWWSaHMgh8Xq80OerSeu1x7X9o0SkdbYCBdCkfTipVtmML8em6ClO-YlXOwZQCyaAfDexZH-XvEUA5LfIu3rNFvn2B7AgfcRm9BBQ9Y1Ws7O_TN38v09G1YWLj9LSzfKWZiCJ3xbHztJJPsC1xQfhsfp5Wfc_aSOAMj5hR1OzHdfsJ0L9mW4DQvcaunuhh53UgHQJwICQwS32fUA_Lo7SLgBAGAB7-T9SaoB6a-G9gHAQ&num=1&sig=AOD64_0CRVAtU-eX-IKwATP1aS0yl-nOBg&client=ca-pub-4006818487458500&nm=27&nx=263&ny=22&mb=2&nb=0&clkt=144&adurl=http://opf2.fisseef.com/fr%3Futm_campaign%3Dopenoffice2%26utm_source%3Dgoogle > >>>> > >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
