Boycott Coinmarketcap - allowing ponzi to advertise

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Quote from: dx_twisted on April 03, 2018, 06:10:11 AM

Quote from: Ninellechka on March 25, 2018, 09:42:26 AM

Coinmarketcap uses GoogleAds, so when Google bans all the cryptocurrency ads, the problem will fade away) Wait for June. I guess, this will happen in June according to their announcement.

There's been a lot of news lately regarding banning of ICO advertisement throughout Google Ads. It will eliminate advertisement that were misleading and annoying to the public. They are currently working on it and expect it to be cleanse by around June or July. So, I support what you have stated.

In fact, I have a post pertaining to it, which you can see here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.32368084

However, we can't blame Coinmarketcap for accepting such placements since the traffic of the site is heavy of crypto enthusiasts and there's no better place to advetise such one but to crypto related content sites. Also, how could you not support it? The statistics being shown there are quite accurate. Moreover, it's a good source for traders and investors alike.

I read that CMC would 'manage' rates and positions for money. Is it true?

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Quote from: Ninellechka on March 25, 2018, 09:42:26 AM

Coinmarketcap uses GoogleAds, so when Google bans all the cryptocurrency ads, the problem will fade away) Wait for June. I guess, this will happen in June according to their announcement.

There's been a lot of news lately regarding banning of ICO advertisement throughout Google Ads. It will eliminate advertisement that were misleading and annoying to the public. They are currently working on it and expect it to be cleanse by around June or July. So, I support what you have stated.

In fact, I have a post pertaining to it, which you can see here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.32368084

However, we can't blame Coinmarketcap for accepting such placements since the traffic of the site is heavy of crypto enthusiasts and there's no better place to advetise such one but to crypto related content sites. Also, how could you not support it? The statistics being shown there are quite accurate. Moreover, it's a good source for traders and investors alike.

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Ads are very important for them to make revenue, if not they wouldn't be able to provide you the sort of service that they currently are. However, I think the onus is on the viewer to verify the background of the advertised service or product before putting in their monies.

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Quote from: BitcoinFrik on February 19, 2018, 02:03:35 AM

Quote from: JayT on February 18, 2018, 07:29:06 PM

We shouldn't recommend coinmarketcap.com to anyone. They are still advertising ponzis on their site. They should know better! No respect for us or newbies at all. Right now I find this garbage site in banner at top: https://profitablemorrows.com/

As far as I am concerned they use Google Ads for advertisement, so, if you want to blame someone, blame Google Ads. I don't think coinmarketcap wastes it's time verifing all the ads that display on their website.

You right I haven't paid much attention to their ads because when I visit this site its for specific data only.

Op trying using an adblocker if you still trying to avoid these ponzi projects but still want to use coinmarketcap, hope it helps

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Coinmarketcap uses GoogleAds, so when Google bans all the cryptocurrency ads, the problem will fade away) Wait for June. I guess, this will happen in June according to their announcement.

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Remembering the Bitconnect ads on there. Grin

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Quote from: InvoKing on March 17, 2018, 12:34:20 PM

Quote from: Dart315 on March 17, 2018, 09:34:53 AM

Quote from: InvoKing on March 16, 2018, 04:15:54 PM

Quote from: Dart315 on March 16, 2018, 01:48:04 PM

Guys, I wonder.

Are they(Google) gonna ban Coinmarketcap as well? They're banning all crypto related ads, so I wonder, will CMC disappear from the search?

Reread what you already said. Google gonna ban ads related to cryptocurrencies. Coinmarketcap is a website having ads like another site : press, statistics, online wallets, even bitcointalk. Will all these sites disappear? Of course no.

Google is well known for a ''Gerrymandering'', they would adapt their rules and algorithms to work under the jurisdiction.(Examples — US, Russia, Iran etc). So who knows. Bitcointalk might get banned.

It could be done but it is then another issue that isn't related to the ads restrictions.
For example banning and restricting warez, p2p cracked apps / torrent have proven that it is inefficient at all. Best example is megavideo, it was seized even and now it resurrected under new name : mega Tongue

Bitcointalk couldn't be hidden easily, and afaik many joined it because their friends informed them or saw it in other forums, reddit, social media...

(sorry OP for being slightly off-topic)

Thank you for the feedback.

We will see. I believe in Crypto!

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I have made a few threads about this, really annoying to see. I have not been using them at all since I am really only focused on a few coins.

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Quote from: Mido06 on March 17, 2018, 09:31:58 AM

Quote from: StarKay on March 17, 2018, 07:34:04 AM

If you are asking us to boycott Coinmarketcap for the stated reason, you should at least provide a credible alternative that provides similar or better service.

I see desearch.io can replace CMC easily. Good service, no advertising and all the info about crypto at one place

I've been using Desearch a lot lately! There exist so many coins/tokens these days! Desearch seems to be very helpful! And not only for newbies!

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Quote from: JayT on February 18, 2018, 07:29:06 PM

We shouldn't recommend coinmarketcap.com to anyone. They are still advertising ponzis on their site. They should know better! No respect for us or newbies at all. Right now I find this garbage site in banner at top: https://profitablemorrows.com/

Most of the ads running on coinmarketcap are google ads, and crypto related. If the ads are pintos base than people should use their mind before investing. Recently google already announce to ban crypto related ads.

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Quote from: Dart315 on March 17, 2018, 09:34:53 AM

Quote from: InvoKing on March 16, 2018, 04:15:54 PM

Quote from: Dart315 on March 16, 2018, 01:48:04 PM

Guys, I wonder.

Are they(Google) gonna ban Coinmarketcap as well? They're banning all crypto related ads, so I wonder, will CMC disappear from the search?

Reread what you already said. Google gonna ban ads related to cryptocurrencies. Coinmarketcap is a website having ads like another site : press, statistics, online wallets, even bitcointalk. Will all these sites disappear? Of course no.

Google is well known for a ''Gerrymandering'', they would adapt their rules and algorithms to work under the jurisdiction.(Examples — US, Russia, Iran etc). So who knows. Bitcointalk might get banned.

It could be done but it is then another issue that isn't related to the ads restrictions.
For example banning and restricting warez, p2p cracked apps / torrent have proven that it is inefficient at all. Best example is megavideo, it was seized even and now it resurrected under new name : mega Tongue

Bitcointalk couldn't be hidden easily, and afaik many joined it because their friends informed them or saw it in other forums, reddit, social media...

(sorry OP for being slightly off-topic)

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Quote from: InvoKing on March 16, 2018, 04:15:54 PM

Quote from: Dart315 on March 16, 2018, 01:48:04 PM

Guys, I wonder.

Are they(Google) gonna ban Coinmarketcap as well? They're banning all crypto related ads, so I wonder, will CMC disappear from the search?

Reread what you already said. Google gonna ban ads related to cryptocurrencies. Coinmarketcap is a website having ads like another site : press, statistics, online wallets, even bitcointalk. Will all these sites disappear? Of course no.

Google is well known for a ''Gerrymandering'', they would adapt their rules and algorithms to work under the jurisdiction.(Examples — US, Russia, Iran etc). So who knows. Bitcointalk might get banned.

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Quote from: StarKay on March 17, 2018, 07:34:04 AM

If you are asking us to boycott Coinmarketcap for the stated reason, you should at least provide a credible alternative that provides similar or better service.

I see desearch.io can replace CMC easily. Good service, no advertising and all the info about crypto at one place

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coinmarketcap has definitely become annoyingly advert heavy lately so its good that some competition has come along. But these sites have to fund themselves somehow so once the sites listed above get the visitors the ads will come.

With the market the way it is a the moment its not worth looking at it anyway. Too painful Angry

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Quote from: StarKay on March 17, 2018, 07:34:04 AM

If you are asking us to boycott Coinmarketcap for the stated reason, you should at least provide a credible alternative that provides similar or better service.

Someone already gave the answer in the first page, read the topic before replying, it is only two pages...

Quote from: TryNinja on February 23, 2018, 10:03:38 PM

Quote from: ceferov on February 23, 2018, 05:06:41 PM

CMC is only a site which we get very large info.

Are you sure?

https://www.livecoinwatch.com/
http://coincap.io/
https://coinkapp.com/
https://coinlib.io/coins
https://onchainfx.com/

And many more...

Quote from: ceferov on February 23, 2018, 05:06:41 PM

I don't think ads will do anything with our opinions as we see it's ad. All CMC does about ads (if not Google ads) only taking money and showing ad. it's net their responsibility to investigate all ads and then share

It is if they are promoting a scam which only purpose is to steal people's money.

I remember that they used to promote a Bitconnect ad at the top of the page and they didn't care even after the community started complaining about it.

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If you are asking us to boycott Coinmarketcap for the stated reason, you should at least provide a credible alternative that provides similar or better service.

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Quote from: Dart315 on March 16, 2018, 01:48:04 PM

Guys, I wonder.

Are they(Google) gonna ban Coinmarketcap as well? They're banning all crypto related ads, so I wonder, will CMC disappear from the search?

Reread what you already said. Google gonna ban ads related to cryptocurrencies. Coinmarketcap is a website having ads like another site : press, statistics, online wallets, even bitcointalk. Will all these sites disappear? Of course no.

Dart315

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Guys, I wonder.

Are they(Google) gonna ban Coinmarketcap as well? They're banning all crypto related ads, so I wonder, will CMC disappear from the search?

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Quote from: JayT on February 18, 2018, 07:29:06 PM

We shouldn't recommend coinmarketcap.com to anyone. They are still advertising ponzis on their site. They should know better! No respect for us or newbies at all. Right now I find this garbage site in banner at top: https://profitablemorrows.com/

I believe, they don't directly have any control over the ads they serve because the use Google's ad service. So I can't blame coinmarketcap for that, but you can stop using google if you think they should not serve ponzi ads. Lol!!

But if we keep the ads aside, do you know any other website that can replace coinmarketcap? It is really informative and well maintained and I don't think we have any alternative available currently.

Why do people making this as an issue since those ads aren't controlled by coinmarketcap itself since google do have the it.If you are a newbie and doesn't any have knowledge into these Ponzi things then most likely you will really end up on investing on it but it isn't right to blame CMC because you have been scammed.You can really just set aside those ads and just only see or check on what you are trying to seek out.CMC is the most reliable site for me when I do check market situation.

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Seems like the do manage the ads directly through their own ad server. You have to submit a request via a Google doc in order to advertise with them. That said, it's difficult to police all the campaigns, and the company in question is supposedly out of Australia, which is supposed to have safeguards in place for ICOs. It would be a good step for them to vet their advertisers a little better, but it's also down to investors to do their research before parting with their money.

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Coinmarketcap is a mystery to me...
Heard that they don't even allow listed coins to edit their index pages.
It's like a fort or a trojan horse, rather, all nice and clean outside but strange and shady inside.
Lets see what comes out of this. Will we see a petition? When will we see it?

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Quote from: utlptc on February 19, 2018, 03:03:34 AM

Quote from: BitcoinFrik on February 19, 2018, 02:03:35 AM

As far as I am concerned they use Google Ads for advertisement, so, if you want to blame someone, blame Google Ads. I don't think coinmarketcap wastes it's time verifing all the ads that display on their website.

You are right. I didn't see any privately sponsored ads there. All ads are from google. There is no fault of CMC. Moreover, google place ads as per client's previous history. However, you can blame Google here.

This, It's not something that you can really blame them for. Are we going to boycott Youtube too? Best solution is just downloading adblocker. CMC DOES do some shady stuff, but this isn't one of them. Take for instance the fact that CMC switched to ETH as a price comparison when BTC was at all time low dominance, or that when prices in South Korea for bitcoin were hitting 30k and the prices were excluded from CMC.

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Quote from: JayT on February 18, 2018, 07:29:06 PM

We shouldn't recommend coinmarketcap.com to anyone. They are still advertising ponzis on their site. They should know better! No respect for us or newbies at all. Right now I find this garbage site in banner at top: https://profitablemorrows.com/

The market will always be full of scammers, if you know nothing DYOR. When I first read Bitconnect whitepaper I felt sorry for the investors, actual fact I think they had a good run, I thought it will go bust much sooner.

Don't shoot the messenger

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I think they are google ads bro, Coinmarketcap has no fault in this, I hate these ads more than you do

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Agree.
They raised on a community trust. But now they act totally unprincipled (especially in terms of advertising) Sad

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Caveat Emptor! Or 'Let the buyer beware'; Coinmarket Cap provides a wonderful, easy to use reference resource and if the price is to ignore the ads then it seems to be more than a fair trade.

No one if forcing you to click on any of the banners there..........

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Quote from: JayT on February 18, 2018, 07:29:06 PM

We shouldn't recommend coinmarketcap.com to anyone. They are still advertising ponzis on their site. They should know better! No respect for us or newbies at all. Right now I find this garbage site in banner at top: https://profitablemorrows.com/

I agree with you to some extent, but we should be careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water.

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Coinmarketcap is man-made like every other site out there.You cannot
rely or trust completely any site considering that you are not in control of what is published
or displayed.What you can do is to make particular inquiry or verification prior to making
or taking any business decision.Sometimes, people may even depend on a particular site,
before long, the site goes down forever! It has happened severally.Hence, we should always trade
with caution in any case.

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It doesn't bother me, people were complaining when they had Bitconnect on their as well. It's a business, they need to maintain that website. I just use them for reference, dismiss all the other bullshit.

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Quote from: JayT on February 18, 2018, 07:29:06 PM

We shouldn't recommend coinmarketcap.com to anyone. They are still advertising ponzis on their site. They should know better! No respect for us or newbies at all. Right now I find this garbage site in banner at top: https://profitablemorrows.com/

It's a paid advertisement and I think they need fund also to stay online. Why bother yourself with such advertisement it's not your purpose in visiting CMC. No one is forcing us to visit coinmarketcap, we are free to go to similar sites with no ads, like http://coincap.io/.

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Quote from: JayT on February 18, 2018, 07:29:06 PM

We shouldn't recommend coinmarketcap.com to anyone. They are still advertising ponzis on their site. They should know better! No respect for us or newbies at all. Right now I find this garbage site in banner at top: -snip-

Well getting money for free will make them reviewing less the content which isn't obvious sometimes / hard to say whether it is a scam or not sometimes.
Google ads offers a reporting function so it is a little bit "better".
I check it from time to time since I don't know (searched precisely) similar sites (until the previous post maybe)

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Quote from: ceferov on February 23, 2018, 05:06:41 PM

CMC is only a site which we get very large info.

Are you sure?

https://www.livecoinwatch.com/
http://coincap.io/
https://coinkapp.com/
https://coinlib.io/coins
https://onchainfx.com/

And many more...

Quote from: ceferov on February 23, 2018, 05:06:41 PM

I don't think ads will do anything with our opinions as we see it's ad. All CMC does about ads (if not Google ads) only taking money and showing ad. it's net their responsibility to investigate all ads and then share

It is if they are promoting a scam which only purpose is to steal people's money.

I remember that they used to promote a Bitconnect ad at the top of the page and they didn't care even after the community started complaining about it.

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Quote from: JayT on February 18, 2018, 07:29:06 PM

We shouldn't recommend coinmarketcap.com to anyone.

I find the ads annoying and misleading too. But is there any other alternative which provides the wealth of info CMC provides?

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CMC is only a site which we get very large info. I don't think ads will do anything with our opinions as we see it's ad. All CMC does about ads (if not Google ads) only taking money and showing ad. it's net their responsibility to investigate all ads and then share

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It was never a problem for me because I never went to that site to see advertisements. I went there to check my coin prices. Best of all, the ads are also not pop ups and they also have no recommendations. The sites that really need to be boycotted are the ones that make dishonest reviews of the shitty ICOs.

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It would 100% be a different story if CoinMarketCap was actually endorsing the ponzi advertised on their website. Users must always remain diligent in this space. Unfortunately, Capitalism and increased bottom line margins sometimes beat out potential schemes.

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Quote from: BitcoinFrik on February 19, 2018, 02:03:35 AM

Quote from: JayT on February 18, 2018, 07:29:06 PM

We shouldn't recommend coinmarketcap.com to anyone. They are still advertising ponzis on their site. They should know better! No respect for us or newbies at all. Right now I find this garbage site in banner at top: https://profitablemorrows.com/

As far as I am concerned they use Google Ads for advertisement, so, if you want to blame someone, blame Google Ads. I don't think coinmarketcap wastes it's time verifing all the ads that display on their website.

I think it's wrong since there's "Advertise" link on left-bottom of their homepage. Even so, i think blaming coinmarketcap.com isn't best idea since i think they don't review what kind of content they advertised Roll Eyes

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Quote from: BitcoinFrik on February 19, 2018, 02:03:35 AM

As far as I am concerned they use Google Ads for advertisement, so, if you want to blame someone, blame Google Ads. I don't think coinmarketcap wastes it's time verifing all the ads that display on their website.

You are right. I didn't see any privately sponsored ads there. All ads are from google. There is no fault of CMC. Moreover, google place ads as per client's previous history. However, you can blame Google here.

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Quote from: JayT on February 18, 2018, 07:29:06 PM

We shouldn't recommend coinmarketcap.com to anyone. They are still advertising ponzis on their site. They should know better! No respect for us or newbies at all. Right now I find this garbage site in banner at top: https://profitablemorrows.com/

As far as I am concerned they use Google Ads for advertisement, so, if you want to blame someone, blame Google Ads. I don't think coinmarketcap wastes it's time verifing all the ads that display on their website.

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http://cryptoinvesting.net

We shouldn't recommend coinmarketcap.com to anyone. They are still advertising ponzis on their site. They should know better! No respect for us or newbies at all. Right now I find this garbage site in banner at top: https://profitablemorrows.com/

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