Seriously. Actual screen shot while browsing the forum during a rare occasion I had my ad-blocking VPN disabled.
?? Not that I pay a lot of attention to whatever ads, but I have never gotten one like that. The last week I am showing a lot from IRC, which makes sense because I donated to them for a couple of Christmas presents.
First time I’ve received one like this. I take a lot of active steps to clear browsing history, tracking cookies, etc. so I rarely get anything even remotely relevant.
Wow. Bring it to the attention of webmaster@paddling.com.
I don’t get popups on my iPad or desktop because I use a popup blocker. But do click on the ads placed by sponsors on the home page just because they’re sponsors.
@Sparky961 said:
First time I’ve received one like this. I take a lot of active steps to clear browsing history, tracking cookies, etc. so I rarely get anything even remotely relevant.
Did it give prices?
I heard that some ad placement is based on the users browsing history.
What sort of history do you figure would bring on an ad like that? Oh, right… I forgot about all those searches for Viagra and Cialis last week… And damn, how did I not remember that Google search: “how do I keep my sausage hard as cement for 3 hours?”.
Might be fun once or twice, but seriously I’m getting too old for that BS. And I’ll bet I’m younger than most here.
As fun as it is to speculate on my own browsing history, I brought it up to point out that the advertising here seems to be more important than … well, it appears to be the most important thing. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve brought it up, and I’ll play the martyr a few more times I’m sure.
Regarding browser history, I’ve had a lot of ads pop up in the right-hand margin of the screen when I’m on YouTube that were related to some topic I had browsed in the recent past, but on this site there seems to be no connection whatsoever between the advertising topics and my browsing history. I don’t think about it much, though. If this is what’s necessary to keep the site afloat these days, I won’t complain. Times change. I can’t recall ever reading one of these ads anyway, except enough to notice that the topics are almost completely random with no connection to anything else I look at online.
That little blue triangle (looks kind of like a play button) and X in the upper right hand corner of the ad says that it is a Google ad. P.net allocates space and page serves the ad, and pays p.net when someone clicks the ads. They are basing what ad to show on the content of the page, but also on your browsing history.
Sparky, back to how you got that ad.
Once in a while the porn outfits manage to put together a site that looks just like a legitimate business site to computer brains seeing it. When I worked for the state, occasionally someone would click on a site for software advice or whatever and get a distinctly organic image. Which prompted cracks from coworkers while they left it up to call tech to determine that indeed it was one of these porn sites spoofing as something legitimate. If it showed up in their browsing history without having been checked they could be questioned.
I bet you didn’t do anything to get that ad. You just tripped over one of the few left that is smartly enough done to evade filters.
@Peter-CA said:
They are basing what ad to show on the content of the page, but also on your browsing history.
Gotta disagree with that as last year I was getting Pcom popups on my office computer advertising hot women. No switch hitter here and my browsing history relates to legal research (or paddling). Sometimes Google throws the kitchen sink at its users. Or misinterprets “paddling.”
".Or misinterprets “paddling.”
that is misinterprets from our point of view ! The masses go for the other paddling and that’s probably where google gets its kicks
@Rookie said:
Gotta disagree with that as last year I was getting Pcom popups on my office computer advertising hot women. No switch hitter here and my browsing history relates to legal research (or paddling). Sometimes Google throws the kitchen sink at its users. Or misinterprets “paddling.”
Good point. I inherently know know to just do a google search on “paddling”, as that wouldn’t pull up what I would be after. Makes sense that the word could also throw off the ad searches.
Now I assume you aren’t using the “switch hitter” definition from the other message thread… 
@Peter-CA said:
Now I assume you aren’t using the “switch hitter” definition from the other message thread…
B)
Ads are based on users browsing history! So either you or someone else was looking at something!
@shiraz627 said:
Ads are based on users browsing history! So either you or someone else was looking at something!
We’ll see if you still agree when you receive an ad that doesn’t match your browsing history and/or personal needs/preferences.
Of course, we’ll never know because most people would keep it to themselves for fear of being accused of something “inappropriate”. Thus, the advertisers and the sites keep profiting without any public complaints.
oh yeah.Ive been browsing overhead garage storage lifts
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@kayamedic said:
oh yeah.Ive been browsing overhead garage storage lifts
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Shame on you! Deviant! Devil spawn! LOL
Just blame it on the cat walking across the keyboard…
It works for the first few times…
You didn’t just say that you blame it on the pussy, did you?
:neutral: CAT…
oh my. Been testing the egg nog? 