Once in a while, I run into web sites that promote their products and services using Google Ads (like the ones we carry here in TuDiabetes, on the right side) to promote what I consider to be “snake oil” (read empty miracle promises) aimed at those who are newly diagnosed and are hoping for a quick solution to diabetes.
Therefore, we take action and block those sites in the hope that we don’t send any business their way.
Today, we updated that list with the help of My Insulin Log, I have updated the list adding in a bunch of sites that he brought up to my attention.
Here is the complete list of sites we are blocking from Google Ads. If you ever see any questionable ads getting displayed, please let me know, so we can take a look at them and decide whether they should join this list:
Right on, Manny! Keep those Google Ads honest – 'cause we all know there is a TON of *snake oil" being peddled, from one site to the next. Thanks for keeping TuDiabetes free and clear of this junk!!
I’ve only blocked a few ads in the past and I can’t recall how to do this. I only see an option to allow certain sites. Can you also point some hints about the quickest way to block sites?
You’ve had serious diabetes for more than 20 years and now you’re cured? Either you misunderstood your doctor or you need to find another doctor. You may have stabilized your blood sugars with your GlyPerfect wonder med, but you’re not cured. As for reversing neuropathy, I look forward to FDA approval of GlyPerfect. Anything that good deserves clinical trials and FDA approval (which the GlyPerfect page specifically says it does not have).
Just giving a bit of context here:
This reply from David (and the comment Jenny made right before me) was to a post that was removed because the member who posted it was banned from the community due to spamming practices.
Another member pointed this out to me, so I will correct myself. My use of the word “sanctioned by the FDA” was inappropriate. I meant to say that the manufacturer had received a letter from the FDA questioning the product. In Spanish “sancionar” means to penalize. Sorry about any confusion this may have caused: please blame it on a not-so-fortunate pseudo-translation.
I suspected the original poster was up to no good, but I didn’t want to be too nasty to a new member, just in case.
Manny, your use of “sanctioned” was confusing, but not incorrect. Sanctioned happens to be one of those bizarre English words or expressions which can mean exact opposites. The historical meaning was official approval, but the meaning of penalization is now also correct. Other examples are to dust (dusting a pie means to sprinkle sugar or flour on the crust, but dusting a table means to remove dust) and to table a motion (start discussing a motion in most places, but to suspend discussing a motion in the US; in Canada we see it used both ways).
The latest site ad we have blocked from the site is this one:
It used to point to www.betterhealthresearch.com. Thanks to Melissa for pointing this out: it is very disturbing that people take advantage of others this way...
Keep an eye on Google Ads, in case you see any ads that jump at you as suspicious. Hopefully before the end of the year we will be able to no longer run Google Ads.
I have to reverabrate what Meadowlark said. I’m with her and everybody else here THANK YOU SO MUCH MANNY!! I really belive your one who dosen’t belive in the false hope that these " quacks" offer!!!
Wow, that is quite the list. Impressive job. I mentioned to Bernard, that somehow there ought to be a way to utilize the community to automatically update this kind of a list through a series of thumbs and thumb downs like on a digg or youtube site. After a threshhold is reached they go into a white or blacklist type of a system. Not too sure, but what you are doing is awesome.
Just thought I’d point out that we can block Google Ads that you may find inappropriate for whatever reason. You can see on this topic that there is quite an extensive list of sites that we block Ads for.
If you have any ads to report, copy the link of the page you are on when you find them and send us a message using the Feedback link at the bottom of the site. Make sure to include the link, the text of the ad that you believe should be blocked and as much extra detail as you can (if you happened to have clicked on the ad, the URL for the page you were taken to would be helpful too).
