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[ericwinters]

What's up with the shrinking ads the last two weeks. It is like all the flakes and scary folks fell off. Not that I'm complaining or anything, just find it odd.

[JayCeeKy]

I'm not for sure but I think the posters are now required to have a Facebook or Tumbler link in their ads - and they removed those who don't. Of course, being the little entrepreneurs that they are, most of them just added fake FB pages (or linked their ads with Mark Zuckerberg's FB page) - or just made up phony Tumbler links.

[LaffingBear]

I'm not for sure but I think the posters are now required to have a Facebook or Tumbler link in their ads - and they removed those who don't. Of course, being the little entrepreneurs that they are, most of them just added fake FB pages (or linked their ads with Mark Zuckerberg's FB page) - or just made up phony Tumbler links.

That explains it. Just about every ad I see has a link. But the link always leads to some bogus account.

 

Thought maybe the links were somehow providing access to malware, so I stopped clicking them.