Comments on: These Teeth Whitening Ads Are Killing Me!

By: Lena

Lena — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:47:23 +0000

I very much dislike these adds
For one thing, they are a total scam. Anyone who is not stupid could notics that.
Another reason why they are so annoying is because they say stuff like “disocvered by a mom!!” ugh
Maybe google just wants money. But whatever they are trying to do, its invading the privacy of people

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:15:45 +0000

What gets me are the pictures are so blatantly photoshopped. When these ads first started coming up, the pictures looked just barely plausible, but as the ads proliferated, the quality plowed downhill and they all look ridiculous now.

Does anyone look at the pictures and actually think they’re for real?

By: Jed

Jed — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:36:41 +0000

These ads are actually back dooring your providers servers and they are replacing the ads that should be there with these “scam” ads.

By: T.Walt

T.Walt — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:28:21 +0000

They make money by billing your credit card up to 80 bucks or more a month. You have to give your credit card to cover the shipping for the “free” trial. Deep in the fine print it mentions you have to call to cancel your membership in the program. Most people dont realize this until they’ve been billed a couple of times. It’s a total scam. The product is crap and only used as bait.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:22:14 +0000

I myself have been fascinated by these for a while. I can’t figure out how the scams are supposed to make money, but they must because the ads are absolutely epidemic.

I actually went to some of the URLs you listed to try to figure it out, but I couldn’t see how the scam was supposed to work without providing information. Is it just ad data mining? Figuring out who to telemarket weight loss and whitening products to?

If you use FireFox, just use the AdBlock add-on. It works wonders, and yes, when they make new domains the ads get through again temporarily, but because so many are from so few sources, you can do a pretty good job of cutting down the annoyances most of the time.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:06:25 +0000

I despise these ads. I think it’s the pandering and the knowledge that there are people that will buy this because “IT WAS DISCOVERED BY A MOM!!!”. It sounds strange but I wish google would use their knowledge about me to get ads i might not hate. invasions of privacy could be better than seeing the exact same ads over and over again. nonetheless, i’ve installed ad block plus, an app in firefox, to keep them from loading.