Daryl A.

Easy to do

Outbrain uses scam tactics

1) several boxes appear with different subjects. A "x" appears in the upper right corner. You press that thinking that it's a close ad button: WRONG! It takes you to that box's content. If you wait a few moments, the real close button appears, EXCEPT

2) the actual target area is smaller than in most ads, and if you're not extremely precise, you'll get taken to that box's content.

3) when closed successfully, you're not really closed, another group of boxes appear. The close button will eventually appear in the upper left corner, again with an extremely small target area, taking you to that box's content.

I understand how advertising works, however, anyone who does business with Outbrain is dealing with a deceptive company using deceptive practices which provides deceptive information to whomever they sell the information to. It also spams me with ads that aren't relevant to me due to their deceptive practices.