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 misleading - it claims "you only pay if clients click on your ad". 

 from me. People clicking to spam me are not clients - and I'm paying for them. People clicking with no intention to buy are not clients - and I'm paying for them. People who don't even understand what they're doing are not clients - and I'm paying for them. 

I pay for clicks, not for clients - and 99% of clicks are not clients.

I have dozens and dozens of messages of people who clearly don't know where they are or what they're doing, asking how to make money. They are mostly using auto translators, which completely mistranslate the gigs (and probably the ads, but I can't see that). 

Case in point, a spammer sent me this when I asked why they were contacting me: 

That's a (bad) portuguese translation of my gig. 

Where it should read "I will edit...." which makes it obvious it's a service I'm selling, the translation reads "Edit videos..." 

in a way that, in Portuguese, sounds like some kind of job opportunity. 

ton of spam from portuguese and spanish speaking countries, and I suspect this is the reason.

 So they contact me asking how to make money. 

Either way, ads at the moment are just not working. For each real lead I get, I get 20 spam messages and time wasters. I'm not gonna pay for this anymore - and it's Fiverr's loss, both in ad revenue and in order commissions. 

Fiverr needs to allow us to filter by language and country, and to target our ads - or to show us exactly how we're being refunded by the spammers and people clicking for nothing.

Spam in ads is ridiculous

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