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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"huh, ad revenue is up a bit this month"

-- some guy in China

"oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck I'm so fired"

-- some IT guy at paw patrol hq

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

!NotTheOnion

NSFW ads without adblockers*. With adblockers it showed a basic landing page with some links. The site is http://www.appykidsco.com/

Chinese landing page.

Edit: The joys of UBlockOrigin and Firefox! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Open it from a mobile device. Definitely lots of porn ads...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yup same here. Definitely porn

[–] Meho_Nohome 3 points 1 year ago

It's a lot of Chinese writing and porn gifs. I had to close it immediately because there were about 30 gifs all over my screen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So many APKs..

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Apparently it was a holding page, could they just not have bought the domain?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Just regular porn. I took the plunge and checked it out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was my first thought, too - that they'd used Paw Patrol "fan art" as marketing materials, but no... it sounds like it was just improperly vetted adult ads displaying on their site. I am more than a little disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not even that exciting. the company that made the snacks apparently went out of business a year ago, so the domain lapsed.. and this is what can happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When they went out a year ago, why do they recall something now?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Supermarket is recalling it, not the manufacturer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mmm, year old stale snacks, just what every kid wants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

At least a year old. Seems like this is blown way out of proportion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yiff

Is what you meant to say.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's ridiculous that they would rather throw out all this product instead of just buying the domain back and serve a simple website. Goes to show how little the brand controls about their business.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe they didn't want to sell?

https://website.informer.com/email/[email protected]

They seem to enjoy collecting expired domains and advertising on them, that might be the more profitable route that trying to find a new buyer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not furry shit, missed opportunity /Sarc