Are ads new here?

Started by landyvlad, September 20, 2018, 04:52:33 AM

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landyvlad

I've never noticed them before, but now I have several ads on the page offering me dates with farm girls and other less savoury products....
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Maybe you recently removed or suspended some kind of AdBlock extension from your browser setup?


I did just that last week and am frankly horrified at the number of unsavoury adverts that now show here. I mean, who the hell wants a crash course on advanced Puppetry?

Dzonny

Umm, I guess that everyone sees what they search for :D :P

Btw, when you're talking about ads, you think about one ad position under the "Advertisement" in the header, right?

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Quote from: Dzonny on September 20, 2018, 07:12:07 AM
Umm, I guess that everyone sees what they search for :D :P

Well they are google ads, so the ads depend on the data collected from your searches and stuff, right ?

"dates with farm girls"
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There appears an advert box on the bottom of my display, right justified to the copyright, making two in total.

As for showing relevant ads, I can honestly say I've never asked Google to search for a well-lubricated, bald Taiwanese girl guide willing to give me a rub down, in my local area.

Well, not recently...

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Quote from: Sh@mbles on September 20, 2018, 08:03:22 AM
As for showing relevant ads, I can honestly say I've never asked Google to search for a well-lubricated, bald Taiwanese girl guide willing to give me a rub down, in my local area.

Well, not recently...

:P :P :D

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Is that why I see ads for 'Dates with farm animals'?
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Creepy.

My ads are all normal, but then again I only use google when I search normal stuff ::)


On a more serious note, on some sites that need to tune their ads better for their audience (like in kids sites), they even have a report system on ads because of the weird or graphic stuff that appears now and then :P
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Google actually tends to offer dating ads, gambling and other less family friendly stuff as a default, IF the site has allowed it, AND you don't have enough history for Google to work with. The different ad categories allowed or disallowed can be configured per website.
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They sometimes have medical-related ones with sick (in both meanings of the word) photos as well.
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Quote from: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on September 21, 2018, 12:41:51 PM
Google actually tends to offer dating ads, gambling and other less family friendly stuff as a default, IF the site has allowed it, AND you don't have enough history for Google to work with. The different ad categories allowed or disallowed can be configured per website.

Believe me that's far from fail safe. :P
We have it set to be family friendly last I checked with adult categories blocked, but I've had to contact them a few times because people reported adult and casino ads all the same.
It has been massively improved though, its quite rare these days to hear about ads that slip through.
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Yeah just noticed this as well. Ah well goes to show that we all can do this to our sites just to annoy others.

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Quote from: CoreISP on September 21, 2018, 04:14:53 PM
We have it set to be family friendly last I checked with adult categories blocked, but I've had to contact them a few times because people reported adult and casino ads all the same.
It has been massively improved though, its quite rare these days to hear about ads that slip through.

I have the same problem on our forum. And I keep seeing ads for dates with Russian / Ukranian ladies wherever I go (here as well). I know the ads are "targeted" but I have never searched for that kinda content for as long as I can remember.

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I don't see how anyone can be criticized for blocking ads when they're seeing offensive crap wherever they go.  If a site (like this one) is being partially or fully supported by ad revenues, they should be all over Google to be selective about the ads they serve, or not use Google ads.  And it would also be considerate to members if you didn't allow ads that contain trackers.  I stopped using Adblock plus a while ago due to problems with system overhead (i.e., bloat), and have been using IE tracking protection.  I never see an ad anywhere.  If they were just ads, I'd see (and ignore) them, but all ads contain trackers, so they're blocked.  I don't have any sympathy for SM or any website that tries to push this garbage on their users, then whines that they shouldn't block ads.

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If you set your browser to refuse third party cookies, which I regard as standard operating procedure, it automatically blocks all Google ads even if you don't have an ad blocker installed. Reason? They all contain tracking code (ie: third party cookies) so even in the absence of Adblock or whatever they still get thumped by the browser setting.

I am ok with with not enabling an ad blocker on all sites, but I'm not ok with opening up my browser to any and all third party cookies on the web. Since that's only available as a global setting, and can't be switched on and off on a per site basis, the result is that Google ends up disqualifying all its ads from ever showing in my browser. That's their problem. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

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I've always blocked third party cookies, from day one, but have never found that blocks ads, just cookies.  I have no problem with ad supported sites, one of my regulars has over thirty advertisers that he built up through legitimate business contacts (not Google), and I see those ads because there's no crap hidden in them.  But I do have a problem with websites that aid and abet privacy abuse because they're too lazy to attract legit advertisers, or too stupid to understand that their site's been recruited for predatory purposes.  You can genuflect before Google, and maybe you even believe they're helping you by throwing you some nickels and dimes, but in the end, nobody benefits but Google.
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Antechinus

That setting blocks Google ads for me (Pale Moon or Firefox). The container element for them will display, but there's nothing inside it. Dunno how it would be on IE because I never use it.

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