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Anything MFA
- Landing page contains nothing but ads (be it from Adsense or other programs)
- Landing page contains very little unique content

Anything deceptive
- Landing page disables by opening new window in full size mode
- Get rich quick schemes
- E-Mail harvesters
- Ad copy promises content that the landing page does not keep
- Software that plugs itself into the system like a virus

I'd say that 90% of the blocked sites are MFAs, and the remaining 10% is deceptive.

Other than that, a lot of what's already been mentioned--email harvesters, free gift sites, directories of ads.

A catch? sometimes the catch is that they are not giving anything away at all, especially if one arrives at a page loaded with nothing but ads.
In some cases the freebe might require the user to submit their personal details - this is enough to make anyone's alarm bells ring.

...since Ad Review went live for me I've been stunned by some of the placement targeted ads coming down the pipe.

Especially the off topic stuff that uses images that border on adult.

Sites that require an email address or other info before you start get blocked quickly.

I normally run text and image ads, but when I start seeing too many of the flash ads, like HR Block during tax season, I switch back to text only for the duration.

There are a couple of companies that I will never again deal with, for example I had a membership in a gym chain that was impossible to cancel when I moved, that have advertised on some of my pages. Those get the boot, just so I can have some feeling of revenge.

PETA also targets pages that have meat recipes on them (such as 80% of the recipes on my personal blog) and I've been tempted to block them, but I enjoy the irony of making money off PETA for eating meat.

Since I have a also a political page discussiong also unemployment, it's very bad when on this pages appear MLM ads.

Take a generic sounding domain name, like www.elbonia-nationalparks.info and an ad copy that promises etailed information, then throw the visitor at a landing page that contains one or two small pictures of Elbonian national parks, and a bunch of links to individual national parks of Elbonia to the left and the right of the pictures.

Certainly not the most beautiful layout the world has ever seen, but definitely above average for an informational site (I think).

Except, the links lead to parked pages. Nothing but parked pages. Disgusting.

- My own sites (why pay for that when I can link)
- My client's sites (avoiding all conflict of interest)
- Competitors for my day job
- Big giant auction and portal sites over-using DKI
- Dating sites - I know they pay, but my primary site is supposed to be very family friendly, and some of the ads aren't.
- Sites advertising events completely outside my area

I used to block competitive ads. For my niche, they are almost all competitive. I used to block ringtones and what I felt were totally unrelated ads. Now, I have come to the conclusion that my visitors are idiots and will click on anything that looks like they might get free candy. I've cleared my filters (with the exception of <snip>) and let the big busy world have at it. My income is up and I have time to do the things I'm interested in. Thpthpthpthp !/.

During low season - competitors. In high season I let them back in because I'm usually full anyway.

MFA sites.

Unfortunately my filter has been full for years. If I find a particularly odious site I have to delete one of the old ones first to block the new one.