Simply disallowing these types of websites hasn't helped because now these advertisers are creating a faucet website to get approval and then redirecting to ponzi's and gambling websites after their websites are approved. I do not have the resources to monitor all active ads regularly and so it makes more sense to just disable the advertising option.
Once it is disabled, ads that are active will continue to be shown until they run out. Any future deposits sent to the advertising deposit address will be credited to the main balance after this.
You can still create ads now. I shall start phasing this out within the next 2 weeks.
Why don't you just hire someone on the forum to filter the Ad's for you, like the signature campaign managers are managing the
signature campaigns on behalf of the companies? You submit the criteria and this "Ad Manager" verify the sites and you do the
approvals and activations? Less work for you, and a income for someone who needs a job. Your Ad's has always been very
competitively priced.. So this will be bad for the people, who want to use it legitimately.
I already have someone who approves ad's but the issue is with checking hundreds of active ads on a daily basis to see if any are redirecting to un-approved websites after their ad has been approved. That job would take more than 1 person I think and the revenue from ads would not make up the cost of paying for them.
Why not change the system, so that no changes can be made to the URL after it was tested and approved or are they using a legit URL
for the application, and then redirects the traffic from that URL to Ponzi's and Scams? It is a pity that legit businesses have to be
punished, because a small percentage of people misused this service. Another option would be to put a disclaimer on the page with the
banner or Ad, warning people about the Ad's that are being displayed on the site.