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That is pretty hard to stop. Check for adserver in your registry. All you have to do is to go looking for a recipe and you are theirs. It seems that they will throw almost anything at you just to see what you respond to. I use Nortons (in bed with Microsoft) and SpyHunter and RegHunter. Pretty much tells you what is going on.The only ads I don't enjoy are the ones that make me go "huh"?
That's a blanket statement! How can you claim that without at least 2 independent reviewers of the picture and approximately $250K in grant money being spent???I keep getting ads for women's swimsuits. I don't search for those, because seriously, no one would want to see me in one!
Well, that's the whole point, isnt it?But don't you just get random ads, that are useless?
Well, that's the whole point, isnt it?
actually in your case since you're a Supporting member you can opt out. I'd have to check but I believe it gets all the ads. You should have a checkbox in your profile settings.It's because you don't have adblock plus installed in your web browser. adblockplus.org
Well no. An advertiser spending money on poorly targeted ads will get cranky because nobody is spending money with them. They'll quickly revisit the parameters for their spend. If we're going to be blasted by ads, they might as well be properly targeted so that they're for things that might be of interest to us. The power of Google is that it can track everything we do here, add it to everything we do literally everywhere else on the Internet and come up with a damn accurate picture of who we are and what our likes and interests are.
So if the OP is getting ads for "adult stuff" (and he never really said what those ads were and "adult" can mean a lot of different things) then the Chairman is right... Someone at his IP address is doing something that suggests those ads are of interest to him. Ya know, like confirming he's male, has a pulse, and stays up later then his wife.
My son is a partner in a marketing company in Australia that works primarily in the online space. We talk a lot about this kind of stuff (I worked in a more traditional marketing space) and it's amazing how precisely ads can be targeted and how "specific" a profile of a person can be. They spend about $250,000 a month with Facebook alone for profiles of us. It's both fascinating and terrifying.
OP (me) is a straight married woman. LOL.
I mentioned this in a previous post but I’ll post it again here. The adult ad I saw was for a male performance supplement, with a picture of a well-endowed and scantily dressed female (you know, the usual). That was yesterday. This morning, the first ad I saw was for gay cruises.
I put 2 and 2 together and figured it was because I was reading, clicking on, and searching recent news articles related to serial killer Bruce McArthur (he killed 8 men from the Gay Village and put their bodies in planters), as well as the Toronto-based law student/escort Nadia Guo. I suppose reading those made Google think I was a gay male in need of supplements!
Kitty porn..Probably looking at kitty pics while you're out diving.