I hate the articles that make you go through 10 pages to, those should be banned.

I agree. I mean some of the articles that get approved are horrendous, but the home site of the article is even more horrendous. Some of them look like they were built in the late 90s with pop up windows overlapping pop up windows.

exactly obvious clickbait articles shouldnt be allowed and also as already mentioned sites that try to get you to click through multiple pages for a image gallery or something

What? Do you think the moderation staff has a network of services running to constantly check if every site that connects to us has any malware on it? I'm not sure you understand how it works. One day they could be 100 percent clean and the next littered with malware. Only constant checking like what Google does can detect it. And when Google tells us, then we handle it, like we are now. And, the sites we're being informed of haven't posted news in months or years, it's all old links.

***As moderators isn't it your authority that okays or doesnt okay which sites & articles are posted on N4g.com? ***

No. The rules dictate what is okay and what isn't. We do our best to adhere to those rules and nothing else. Our authority is tied to those rules. There is nothing in the rules about banning sites because it looks like they could have malware or even for having a warning once or twice. If we see a submission with a warning, we'll fail it and leave a report why. If it continues to go unfixed, that's when we may consider a ban, since it might look like the owner of the site is not looking to fix the issue. But, not until then.

*** isn't it also true that as a Moderator w/experiene dealing with this particular issue that you also gaining some expertise and awareness on which sites could be malware and which ones aren't? ***

As a Web developer, which I am above all else professionally, this sort of thinking will only lead you to negatively impacting way more legit sites without malware than it would sites with actual malware. Other than actually getting malware warnings, what are you asking me to look out for? The type of ads? The number of ads? How professional the site looks? None of that will tell you if there is malware. Malware comes in many forms from a wide array of sources and even comes from 100% legit ad companies utilized by tens of thousands of Web sites every day.

As I mentioned elsewhere, the sites we are being flagged for haven't even posted to N4G in years. When they were active, they didn't have malware. It's since they've become inactive, and likely were sold to another person/company, that malware was detected. So, how do I handle that? Are you saying I should check every site in the system, literally tens of thousands of sites, each month? Week? It only takes a line of code and an update that can take a few seconds to put malware up. And it can happen at any time.

Thanks for looking into it.

Thanks Chris you're a good dude.

While I do have ad blocker installed, I do allow sites like N4g, because I do want them to be profitable.
If they weren't, there wouldn't be a site.

But by default it is on, because a lot of site I go too do tend to be broken because of the ads, and I mean crash your browser broken... and I just can't be bothered with that.

Once you find a site you want to support, then turn the blocker off.

Do you...feel proud when you watch the ads?

As a contributor should I include direct links to those articles of the sites are safe like PlayStation Blog or GameSpot?

This is the way the site I write for does it too. No pop up ads just ads on the side and and at the bottom of content. Nothing worse than constant pop up adds or those stupid sites that make you click through pages and pages for two sentences and loads of ads. N4g staff need to be hotter on submissions and block sites that have malware ads.

As a reader, I appreciate your efforts.

Plus it really turns people off your website if you have things jumping in the way.
If people start playing hard ball with their ads, then your not forcing people into your ads...your forcing people to give up on your site.

Lol no.

Yea thats what I'm using on my LG G4.

Is your chrome up to date?

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse