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by Chris_Newton 5342 days ago
> We do serve ads equally to all browser types. :)

Contrary to what it said on your site when we signed up, it appears that you also serve very much non-text ads these days as well. We discovered this when someone sent us a screenshot of a (large, bright white) ad for a vaguely related product displayed right underneath a (medium-sized, dark-background) screenshot of our new product on our custom-styled (dark coloured) blog.

This was on a blog for which we have paid actual money for various premium features, and to say that we were unimpressed at how unprofessional-looking this made our post would be an understatement. I was really hoping that this was some sort of dubiousware installed on the visitor in question's browser and not something done by the WP site, but I notice that the explanation about ads on your site has since changed to remove the "text" qualifier, though it certainly hadn't at the time the offending ad was displayed or when we chose to use your service and pay you money for the extra features.