I recently tried out Adsterra, an advertising network that claims to offer high revenue and CPM rates for website publishers. However, my experience with Adsterra has been anything but positive.

Soon after placing banner ads on my website, I started receiving complaints from users about random redirects to unknown sites. I was shocked that this was happening without users even clicking on anything. After doing some research, I found that other users had also experienced similar problems with Adsterra.

To make matters worse, Adsterra seemed to be hiding their ads entirely when I was testing my website with a VPN, while from my own IP, they only showed generic ads. This made it difficult to identify the root cause of the problems, and I was left feeling frustrated.

What does Adsterra say about it? According to their team, people mistake aggressive software ads for malicious activity, and these ads can be turned off when requesting ad codes. However, even when opting out from everything that could possibly cause such issues, such as the "alert ads" option, it had absolutely no effect, and they still displayed these ads. This lack of control over the ads displayed ...