what the hell is ad's picking up?

[dublinbluenose]

Probably opening up a can of worms for myself but what the hell have I been doing that google ads has given me the ad below?

 

[Deleted member 28206]

FIST

 

[Deleted member 28206]

HIYA XXXXXX

 

[GrandOldTeam]

I'll quote our friends at ToffeeWeb;

Which ads are delivered to a particular user are based on a combination of factors relating to the browser in which the website is being used – e.g. geographic location, browsing and search history, etc. Google uses that information to tailor many of the ads to a given user; we at ToffeeWeb play no role in selecting which ads you see, although we are able to filter out ads that we deem unsuitable to our readers.

If you see an ad promoting either a rival club or inappropriate material, contact us so that we can make an assessment and take measures to filter the ad in question out if we deem if to be unsuitable for our viewers.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Whats a Gay Bungalow ?

Does it only have a back door or something ?

Or is it based on the Bill Wiggins analogy ?

 

[SerenityNigh]

Weird that you'd get an offer to vacation in Canada.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

I'll quote our friends at ToffeeWeb;

Which ads are delivered to a particular user are based on a combination of factors relating to the browser in which the website is being used – e.g. geographic location, browsing and search history, etc. Google uses that information to tailor many of the ads to a given user; we at ToffeeWeb play no role in selecting which ads you see, although we are able to filter out ads that we deem unsuitable to our readers.

If you see an ad promoting either a rival club or inappropriate material, contact us so that we can make an assessment and take measures to filter the ad in question out if we deem if to be unsuitable for our viewers.

I just refreshed this page 10 times and got ads for these :

Sky TV
Paypal card reader
Shakespeare in love
Hunter clothing
NFU Mutual home insurance
Longleat safari park
Heavy duty storage shelters
Vodafone
Ebay
Subaru XV crossover

Is it all my search history in the entire time i've been using this browser?

Depends how generic the links are as well. I have searched for sky on google and probably viewed offers for vodafone phones when looking for a new one.

I've searched for cars and may have looked at a page with a Subaru on.

I've looked at clothes but not that particular brand (Hunters).

I probably looked at car insurance (but not home insurance).

Don't remember ever looking at shakepspeare in love or storage shelters.

So how accurate compared to my actual interests are these adverts.

Bit like if you now start getting targetted ads for male clothing shops cause you used the word"tailor" in your post.

I know its not an exact science, and you might not actually know and are just going by what google say, but it just doesn't seem very accurate to me, and certainly not based on what i usually browse.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Interesting test. Refreshing this page gives me:

IBM Watson Analytics
Ford's Dream Big Sales Event
Visit Britain
Lungfish Communications (marketing)
Upromise.com
Rackspace

After a while it ends up giving these same results in different orders. Either I'm very boring or the ads are mining from very recent results (or both.) I'd guess that quite a few pages at GOT turn up interesting ads based off the conversation at that page.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Probably opening up a can of worms for myself but what the hell have I been doing that google ads has given me the ad below?

You're on the premier gay and bisexual Evertonian's website mate. There'd be something wrong with adsense if it didn't take that into account.

Can't believe no-ones asked "Wanna bum" yet. Standards are slipping.

 

[Moomin]

I had an advert which said " 15 brutal ways to protect your woman " I tried to do a screenshot but pressed the wrong button then the next advert was about Russian whores.

 

[Boss_Blue]

browsing and search history,

I'm surprised mine don't display adverts from the local constabulary asking me to hand myself in.

 

[riddick]

I'll quote our friends at ToffeeWeb;

Which ads are delivered to a particular user are based on a combination of factors relating to the browser in which the website is being used – e.g. geographic location, browsing and search history, etc. Google uses that information to tailor many of the ads to a given user; we at ToffeeWeb play no role in selecting which ads you see, although we are able to filter out ads that we deem unsuitable to our readers.

If you see an ad promoting either a rival club or inappropriate material, contact us so that we can make an assessment and take measures to filter the ad in question out if we deem if to be unsuitable for our viewers.

On my desktop everything is fine. On my mobile, for some reason, its telling me to go to a site called Filipino Cupid. Now, no offense to the Filipino's on this board and ladyboi's everywhere(and i know its bit of an oxymoron being here and all), but its not exactly an area Ive been searching there. I mean, its constant. At least 50% of my day says that.

 

[tommye]

really, REALLY, pissing me off and spoiling the site.


Sort it PLEASE DD. Site is becoming a right pain in the arse to use (via mobile)

 

[tonyhorne]

I just refreshed this page 10 times and got ads for these :

Good game. My 10 refreshes gave me:
Disney cruise line
Disney world resort
Hugo Boss
Abercrombie and Kent
Google Drive for work
Virgin atlantic
Boots
Loaf.com
EE
Amplifon

I don't know what a couple of those actually are but I don't think they are anything to do with Canada.....

 

[roydo]

I am on a laptop

The 10 I got on refreshing were.

James Villa Holidays
Twitter. (Never been on it, never searched for it)
Fisher Retirement Plans. Makes sense
And 7 various Samsung ones. (Spent ages on Vodafone the other day)

So a bit hit and miss.