GoogleAds Are Creepy

[OnlyAnEgg]

So, I logged off MT and cleaned up a video I've been working on. I created the movie 1080p with higher-end encoding and, oddly enough, needed to download the H.264 codec to view it.

When I got back to MT, this ad set was waiting for me:

 

[Tez3]

I've had this too. I was Googling for something to do with Israel for a recent thread, came back to MT and there's ads at the top about holidays to Israel! I've noticed this before also that all the ads on my pages are Brit ads often to do with whatever the subjects are on the page. Reading a TKD brings up ads for TKD clubs here, I feel stalked sometimes.

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

They must be accessing the browser's history in order to generate spot-on ads like this.

 

[theletch1]

Here you go...link.

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

Here you go...link.

not right, i tell ya.

 

[theletch1]

Yeah, it certainly has a 1984 feel to it. I'm waiting until they're able to tie your internet searches into your tv watching and give user specific television advertisements.

 

[Sukerkin]

I have a feeling that already happens with some pay-for-view channels (can't swear to it). It certainly technically possible tho' - it's pretty simple really. The stuff I create for work does a vastly more complicated task and we're essentially using 1980's technology!

 

[Bob Hubbard]

The Google Ads are geo-specific based on cookies and 'google magic' as I call it. FireFox users can block them by installing Ad Block Plus and keeping it updated. Alternately, filter "http://*.googlesyndication.com/*"if using other blockers.

Unfortunately, they significantly help defray rising costs so I'm hesitant to remove or restrict them right now. Once I upgrade to vB4, I'll be doing some fine tuning and supporting members will see a mostly ad-free site.

 

[Jenna]

Google is watching you!!! Oooohh.. Gooooooogle!!! Anyways all of you all.. "Google" is NOT a verb!! Remember that!! haha..

 

[Tez3]

The Google Ads are geo-specific based on cookies and 'google magic' as I call it. FireFox users can block them by installing Ad Block Plus and keeping it updated. Alternately, filter "http://*.googlesyndication.com/*"if using other blockers.

Unfortunately, they significantly help defray rising costs so I'm hesitant to remove or restrict them right now. Once I upgrade to vB4, I'll be doing some fine tuning and supporting members will see a mostly ad-free site.

I don't mind ads at all, sometimes they are useful and if they help pay the costs no problem, it's just a bit creepy sometimes when they seem specific to you.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

I've forced myself to look at them here and on my other sites, normally I've got them blocked, but sometimes really odd ones slip through and I end up trying to block them for everyone.

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

I'm not averse to them as such. Gotta pay the bills, Bob. I just find it downright, well, Orwellian, at times.

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

I do, however, resent the ads that remind me I'm single and over 40.

Thanks so much, GoogleFrikkingAds.

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

Google is watching you!!! Oooohh.. Gooooooogle!!! Anyways all of you all.. "Google" is NOT a verb!! Remember that!! haha..

Oh, hai, Jenna!

 

[Archangel M]

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[OnlyAnEgg]

"because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly, smartass!"

epic.

 

[Cryozombie]

"Google" is NOT a verb!! Remember that!! haha..

Not even if I say that I like to google my youtube?

 

[CoryKS]

Google is watching you!!! Oooohh.. Gooooooogle!!! Anyways all of you all.. "Google" is NOT a verb!! Remember that!! haha..

On the contrary... I'm googling even as we speak.

I'll be honest, when I saw the title of this thread I thought it would be about the weird pictures that accompany the ads. Like the bearded guy with the bizarre teeth.