As many of you know, our ads detect what is written on a page to display content. This was experimented upon during the election when nameless posters would keep posting John McCain to make McCain ads pop up.
Well apparently someone else who shall remain nameless made a thread called Jesus Fucking Christ in the tech help forum and that got ME ads for a Christian Social Network. What the FUCK?
It wasn’t on this site, but I’ve been to some (usually inoffensive sites, like TV Tropes) only to have ads on things like Bear Dating sprung on me. Seriously.
(Please don’t ask me to explain what Bear Dating is. ) :thud:
WTH kind of ad selection system do they have- and how do I turn it off? Yeesh.
I do remember the John McCain ad. I think it was determined that it was because of one big political thread we had here where John McCain’s name was mentioned a lot. Kinda scary how one thread can change our ads.
Bear is a subset of the gay community. Instead of the effeminate prissy San Francisco types, bears are big, hairy, burly gay men. Bear Dating would therefore be a dating service that hooks up these literal Men’s Men.
Well I’m sorry that Bearforce1 is the only Bear band I know of. I thought the fat guy in pink sorta demonstrated the Bear subculture referred to in the Bear Dating Service.
Anyways, I’ve noticed that the ads change depending on what the topic is. But other times, it confounds me a bit with crap like Castlevania games for sale or other weird shit. (Like if John McCain and Obama are cheating on their wives. Really? Do I care?)
Though I kinda freaked out a bit like Sin when I saw the Christian ads.
Doesn’t seem to work for me…I guess it detects that my IP is in China so it seems to tailor all the ads toward China no matter what the content of the thread is