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Today is the first day I've seen a Temu ad on Super User.

I know the site needs income and ads are great way ensuring that.

However there really should be some boundaries and at least basic selection of ads should be done.

There are already forums I'm ignoring just because the amount and quality of ads shown there.

Congratulation Super User! Today you just took the first big step losing me!

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    Ah joy. I never notice these things cause of adblock. Did you report it? Commented Sep 9, 2025 at 8:33
  • I've tried but got error message, not sure whether it was successful. I don't see the ad now Commented Sep 9, 2025 at 8:36
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    My guess is they're now working with an (unscrupulous) ad partner. They rent the space to them, and perhaps give some guidance on which types of advertisements to display (e.g. "tech", "education") etc. But ultimately its the advertisements company's decision which ads to run. :( Commented Sep 9, 2025 at 14:30
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    I have also seen low-quality Temu ads on Electrical Engineering, but got an error trying to report the ad. Found Reporting an ad gives an error instead on the main meta which is tagged status-review but not sure of the progress. Commented Sep 9, 2025 at 22:18
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    Reporting an ad gives an error instead has just been re-tagged as status-planned, so hopefully a fix is is on the way to allow ads to be reported. Commented Sep 12, 2025 at 15:22

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There's nothing we can do directly about this - status-reviewing it will in theory throw it into the community department's queue, and hopefully will raise a conversation about it.

That reporting's broken is concerning, and if it happens again, I suggest raising a bug report about it as well.

I apologise for not being able to do more on our end.

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