Customized ads - what's in yours?

[Paul_B]

Just thought this might come up with a few funny ones. Mine are boring but occasionally come up with something WHY!

OK I'll start. Boring today I'm afraid.

Currently Bullard AV but just before this page it was a cycling shop showing black Friday sale items.

So I've been cycling kit window shopping and at risk of dodgy virus'. What does your customized ads say about you?

 

[Mesquite]

I'm lucky, I don't have to see any customized ads at all

 

[daveO]

Mine keeps trying to sell me gabion baskets to prevent river erosion. I think they've missed their target with that one. Better than the blog that kept insisting I needed treatment for erectile disfunction though.

 

[bopdude]

I'm lucky, I don't have to see any customized ads at all

I know what you mean, sorry to Tony etc but the site is at no risk of losing any revenue from me re ads, IF I want something from the site I know where to find it, ads are just pure evil imho of course

 

[Paul_B]

I'm lucky, I don't have to see any customized ads at all

Try turning off your ad locker and join the random ad fun just once.

 

[Paul_B]

I had life assurance for the over 60s, I'm early 40s if you don't mind. But ED beats that.

Although I did shave the beard off anyway after the ad. I mean there's a Webcam and my beard is getting a little grey these days.

 

[Mesquite]

Try turning off your ad locker and join the random ad fun just once.

No thanks I got fed up when the ads were suggesting I might want to check out incontinence underwear

 

[daveO]

I was just offered tortoise insurance. I dont have a tortoise. Probably the wierdest advert I've seen so far.

 

[Nice65]

Gadgets. Not very good ones either, the super high power torch for $75 when I could pick one up for about $6 on the Chinese websites, but I won't because they're rubbish.

 

[Janne]

Alpkit is there for me.
Boring, I rather would get info about cars.

 

[Toots]

Alpkit all the time.

 

[Paul_B]

After going on a site that had a sudden spate of dodgy spam I got an ad on a different site for ladies underwear.

Now you might think that I've been looking at something related but I've honestly not. I'd only looked at cycling forums for about a week (well apart from kennel club and other sites that list puppy litters for sale in the breeds we're looking at).

I'm looking at getting a new bike and dog. The only things I'm obsessively looking at other than this site of course.

So the only source of data that this ad "preference" could have used was the high number of dodgy spam threads in a cycling forum I visited. That to me is a bit worrying. If a forum gets too many spam Google analytics and similar seem to be detecting these spam posts and converting it onto personal interests.

Needless to say I selected the x and reported it as inappropriate content.

On here BTW it's often Alpkit or a financial site. One is appropriate the other isn't. Hint my new bike is a 15 year old secondhand one.