Welcome To Websleuths # 2

[BayouBelle_LA]

Well ads tend to tailor to your browsing history

Well I'm not sure about that because I'm not browsing fried chicken and I have 2 KFC adds running simultaneously 24/7 for the last 3 days. Misogynistic ads at that! Maybe we need a thread for ad content.

 

[RANCH]

I’m also getting the dating sites for foreign ladies. I definitely haven’t been browsing dating sites. It’s quite embarrassing if someone happens to glance at my phone just as the scantily clad lady ad appears.

I'm going to my Samsung again to see if any of these kinds of ads show up.

 

[RANCH]

I'm going to my Samsung again to see if any of these kinds of ads show up.

On my Samsung phone the ads were these.

Verizon ear buds ad.

smartlifeweekly.com ad

KFC video with no audio

Websleuth Facebook ad

FOX35 video that wasn't playing.

 

[badgersmythe]

The ads I’m getting are

Dating sites- where the lady makes the first move!
Immigration services
No win no fee lawyers
Vauxhall dealership.

Quite a strange combination but at least I’m no longer getting the videos.

 

[Shiressleuth]

I'm going to my Samsung again to see if any of these kinds of ads show up.

 

[Shiressleuth]

The ads I’m getting are

Dating sites- where the lady makes the first move!
Immigration services
No win no fee lawyers
Vauxhall dealership.

Quite a strange combination but at least I’m no longer getting the videos.

They're the ones I have got except the Vauxhall one. Now I am getting the muslim ladies dating sites, bras and accident compensation lawyers. Plus the WS Fox ad videoos

 

[badgersmythe]

They're the ones I have got except the Vauxhall one. Now I am getting the muslim ladies dating sites, bras and accident compensation lawyers. Plus the WS Fox ad videoos

The Vauxhall’s one is strange as it’s the one my mother uses. It’s about 20 miles from me.
The dating ads are all clearly aimed at men though.

 

[RANCH]

The Vauxhall’s one is strange as it’s the one my mother uses. It’s about 20 miles from me.
The dating ads are all clearly aimed at men though.

I'm a man and I'm not getting the dating ads.

Big fail on the perpetrators of these ads.

 

[Wire154a]

I'm jonesing for a Popeye's ad just because I'm hungry for chicken!

 

[Gooddeeds]

I’m also getting the dating sites for foreign ladies. I definitely haven’t been browsing dating sites. It’s quite embarrassing if someone happens to glance at my phone just as the scantily clad lady ad appears.

I’m also getting the dating sites for foreign ladies. I definitely haven’t been browsing dating sites. It’s quite embarrassing if someone happens to glance at my phone just as the scantily clad lady ad appears.

What happens when you browse Private?

 

[badgersmythe]

What happens when you browse Private?

I don’t actually what that means. How do I browse private?

 

[Gooddeeds]

I don’t actually what that means. How do I browse private?

Firefox and Safari offer both. Private has the lesser tracking.

 

[Shiressleuth]

I'm a man and I'm not getting the dating ads.

Big fail on the perpetrators of these ads.

They're targeting women with the bra ads but men with the dating ads so it isn't based on gender imo. I guess they figure they may be right 50% of the time.

 

[badgersmythe]

They're targeting women with the bra ads but men with the dating ads so it isn't based on gender imo. I guess they figure they may be right 50% of the time.

I’m female.

 

[wendybtn]

I can barely post as an ad for Randy Boyd, candidate for governor of Tennessee, runs incessantly. Each post of one sentence takes 10 minutes.

 

[Gooddeeds]

This thread is becoming a bit of an eye opener.

We can't read some US news sites but get ads for stuff we are not even looking for at all.

It is strange to encounter this weird stuff. I wonder if those posting on the other Help threads aren’t coming here because they can’t find us? Finding threads is not as easy as it was before.

One poster said he was thinking about posting it in the Crime forum. I got a good laugh out of that

 

[wendybtn]

And he's lost my vote!

 

[RANCH]

I can barely post as an ad for Randy Boyd, candidate for governor of Tennessee, runs incessantly. Each post of one sentence takes 10 minutes.

And he's lost my vote!

He lost my vote too.

I live in California so I guess it doesn't matter.

 

[Gooddeeds]

Has anyone been on other forums or platforms that use this software model?

 

[Shiressleuth]

I’m female.

And me. So the bra ads have my gender right and the dating sites have it wrong.