I recently discovered it's very hard to make some money with just ads, so I can't blaim a faucet owner for using a little trick to earn some money to keep his faucet going.
And
500 300 satoshi 3 times a day is still not bad. (--> updated The Burf)
I haven't seen any referrals from this faucet, so this might indeed be broken. Hope the faucet owner can fix this. Thanks in advance!