Questionable Ads on SpanishDict.com
I just noticed an ad today on the website offering work from home schemes.
One identified a mother in Macungie, PA, the other a mother in Allentown, PA who are making hundreds of dollars a day and thousands of dollars a month working part time from home.
It happens that I know a lot of people in Allentown and Macungie, and I didn't happen to know these two. I thought, I wonder if these people are legitimate or fictional? A google search on their names gave me nothing indicating that these are real people (only links to Facebook accounts.) No church choir, Little League connections. I don't think they are real.
SpanishDict.com provides a wonderful service and enjoys an excellent reputation. Whoever is behind ad sales might want to take a closer look at this business and reconsider posting these ads.
19 Answers
What?!! You doubt the integrity and honesty of an advertisement? How can this be?
Seriously, I just assume that everyone trying to sell me something is lying to me. It saves time. I also don't even glance at the ads. In fact, I employ software to ensure that I never see any of them.
I thought, I wonder if these people are legitimate or fictional?
I don't think the site should look into this, actually.
Have you ever seen ads on Tv for those miracle gym thingies, you do just one minute a day and you are slim and fit in a couple of days only. 
There are also those guys telling their personal experience with this gym miracle thing....or that miracle cream or that miracle whatever. I have no doubt in my mind that these guys are fake.
I am very familiar with this ad, because it causes a big personal problem for me. The strobing on the ad can trigger my seizures, and whenever it pops up I have to close out and come back later.
But, in the defense of SD, I want you to know that when I brought this problem to the attention of Marianne when the ad first started that they did write to the site owner to try to get this ad pulled.
Lorenzo is right when he says that they get an ad stream from an internet service rather than from the sale of individual ads. As such, the site does not have total control over what runs on the ads.
If they did, I am sure they would have either pulled it or had it changed because not only is it fraudulent in its content, but it is also physically dangerous for many, many people.
I'm working to get to 10,000 reputation points so I don't have to see them
Good luck, Joyce...even I still see ads
Living in a sterile/germ-free environment can environment can reasonably considered "bad for you" (dangerous to your health) because you body won't develop the necessary resistance. By the same token, consumer awareness (a healthy skepticism about all advertising claims) is important to all the people who are constantly bombarded by false/exaggerated/misleading claims (which includes most of us).
Read the ads critically, look for other opinions, exercise some common sense (and a healthy dose of disbelief/doubt). If everyone (or even most people) did this, the "snake oil" salesmen would go out of business.
I am not at all worried by the ads , but I am quite disturbed ( well, we know that! )
by the messages I keep receiving asking me to enhance certain body parts.
The question I have to ask is ," who is watching and who is telling"???? 
Although I respect what you are asking the site to do, it is a little, in my humble opinion, unreasonable. I truly believe that there are many forms of false advertisement and you (or anybody) should take it with a grain of salt. 
I think your heart is in the right place but you don't have to take the ads seriously. Thank you for your honesty and thank you for taking a risk to post!! 
Have a great day!!
The ads are contracted by a very sophisticated and typical service. Lately, they target the ads using a variety of data available through browser cookies and other tracking devices, plus guessing your geographical location from your Internet Service Provider's address you are currently using. As such, I see some ads for businesses in my hometown that you all will never see. I also see ads specifically for products I have recently browsed on Amazon.com and other shopping sites. Lately, I viewed a particular cordless mouse. Ads for this mouse have followed me around for a couple of weeks, on various websites, including SD. Yikes! 
Bottom line: The ads you see are probably somewhat influenced by your surfing habits on the computer you use for SpanishDict. I'm not saying that it's your fault the ads you get annoy you -- But advertisers are not in the business of caring whether or not you're annoyed!
The site gathers revenue from the ads. It would be prohibitive to do background on all the sponsors. As they are only commercials for products and services, "Caveat Emptor," Let the Buyer Beware!
"Make no mistake. The folks at the FTC are working hard to stamp out fraud and deception that might dampen consumer confidence in the e-marketplace.
Dampen consumer confidence????
Any confidence I ever had in advertising was drenched so long ago I can't remember. I have a little plan for the future, to go to a Beauty Counter in a department store when I'm really old and wrinkly and ask them what their creams and lotions can do to help me turn back time.....
I can honestly say I don't see the ads 95% of the time, although I have been irritated by those with excessive movement going on, and occasionally by one that has the audacity to talk to me (or shout!), and Echoline has made a point which blatantly needs to be taken seriously.
Other than that, I really don't care, it's fantastic to have these free services - I'm very grateful.
mmm... interesting. The adverts I can see are all British. Do people logged on in the Americas or in Europe see local adverts, too?
I just treat them as background noise and take no notice of them.
The site gathers revenue from the adds. It's a free service, this site. Talk about ungrateful.
I'm firmly in the "all ads are lies" camp, and as such I take no notice of them and wouldn't agree that SD should be policing its ads to weed out untruthful ones. But as someone recently diagnosed with epilepsy (although thankfully not photosensitive) if Echoline says the ad could induce seizures then I strongly agree that it should be got rid of. I don't remember seeing that ad, does anyone have a URL for the company? Maybe if enough people sent them an email pointing out their ad is dangerous they might change it. I doubt we'll get them to make it honest though...
They probably get an ad stream from an internet service rather than contracting with individual advertisers.
I get a lot of ads for English lessons.
