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What is with these ads?

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Nintendoofah64

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on: September 26, 2011, 11:24:23 PM
Recently I've been seeing a lot of these ads where it's just a Jpg image that has buttons that read "play now", "Download", and "Sign up".

Now what game are they advertising?:blink:

And here's an example

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Reply #1 on: September 26, 2011, 11:45:31 PM
I wouldn't click them. I never clicked on ads when I got them in the past. If you're annoyed by ads, then, if you're using Firefox, installed Adblock Plus. Opera has an adblocking software as well you can install called NoAds.

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Reply #2 on: September 27, 2011, 08:47:13 AM
I know no to click on them. The ad in my post was seen in the GOF, which makes no sense because there isn't a game on this site.

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Reply #3 on: September 27, 2011, 08:53:50 AM
I've seen links like that all over the internet. Even on websites where nothing is up for download. I've never clicked on one so I couldn't tell you what exactly they link to. Chances are, not to a game download.

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