: Porn ads being served in AdSense ad slot I have a few sites showing AdSense ads. The sites have a lot of older users, and they often complain if they think ads are too suggestive, e.g. one

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I have a few sites showing AdSense ads. The sites have a lot of older users, and they often complain if they think ads are too suggestive, e.g. one of these online game ads that show a cartoon woman with a lot of cleavage.

Yesterday I got a complaint that one of my sites was showing porn ads. Not suggestive, just real hardcore porn ads. The user in question sent me a screenshot of her screen and there were ads for russian something and web cam girls, with very explicit pictures. At first I though she might have some adware/browser extension/toolbar or something that was switching out the ads, but she sent me screenshots from two different computers, and an iPhone, and they were all getting these porn ads!

So, couple of points:


This woman is the only one who has complained. I get thousands of visitors a day, I'm sure if more people were getting these ads they would have complained.
The ads don't have the little grey rectangle with the X and the ad choices menu in the upper right corner, like AdSense ads usually have.
This is happening on three different devices for this woman, one of which is an iPhone, and it happens consistently.


So, any ideas about what might be happening here? Rogue ads, that are only shown to this woman? A bad third party ad network that doesn't screen their ads well enough? Still seems that only one woman gets these ads, so this is all very weird!

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