I took a chance and did a search for them. To my surprise, they're to wear on one's fingers.
My dirty mind had assumed something else entirely. I'll probably start getting Goop Egg ads as punishment.
I think that's the OP's point. This is a car forum, we don't need political ads here. Ill bet the answer is money. Running a website costs money which is typically generated by selling ads. Well guess who is shelling out big bucks for ads these days. Thanks Trump!
I could be wrong but I don’t think it is the forum generating specific ads. I suspect it is Google in most cases. Eg all mine are in German and most are car related. I also get quite a few for sports equipment. I suspect there is some algorithm that determines what ads one gets based on location and your internet viewing preferences. That’s why some of our friends on here get silicone ring and Ukrainian dating ads. Lol
The ads are served by Google and are based on your browsing history and whatever other information Google has on you. I have an ad-blocker (uBlock Origin on Google Chrome) so I don't see ads on this site, but on sites like Facebook, I get ads tailored to what I have been searching recently.
yeah, watch out for euro car links - I watched a swedish stelvio quad vid the other day ....
anybody else see "32 degrees in February"?
usually I'm getting ads based on my wife's shopping searches - shoes, sak's, afoalo bulbs
I quit looking at london times links, generates allkindsa weird stuff
"wrong forum" - unless you are complaining about bush putting in the stupid ethanol biofuel mandate, and are now pissed at trump because he wants to raise it to 15%.
enough with the burning food for fuel thing.
The forum is about cars. The advertisements along the side are not about cars and not about the forum. Whatever the advertisement is, I choose to ignore it. Yes, they're generally geared at whatever I have been researching recently. Since I don't follow politics, I don't get political advertisement. I get stuff like, bicycles, car parts, building supplies, ect... whatever I've been looking for. I don't read the side ads, I don't click on them, they are just there.
I think, if you subscribe to the forum, buy a paid subscription, the side ads get turned off. That's something you could research, maybe the political ads will get replaced with forum ads? LOL
Wait... I keep getting ads for male enhancement, Asian mail order brides, Russian mail order brides and ones about how to meet local married women for no strings attached encounters.... should I be concerned about my browsing habits? >
@JerryNY is that considered a Driver Assisted Package or is that part of the Fuel Pump issue related to your browsing? Also, shipping charges are expensive I would keep with local suppliers.
On the other hand, I get a great chuckle out of you guys sometimes. @wingler you kill me with your combacks are priceless ROFL
Yeah but those overseas exotics are always so darn enticing. Case in point...Giulia. :wink2:
Seriously though the ads are just the lay of the land with the internet in today’s world. YOU are the product, they sell your data, browsing preferences, key words you write in your private emails and sites you visit among other things to advertisers. Someone’s gotta fill up Google and FB’s coffers and they’re happy to sell you out if you use their products for “free”...
I laugh when I do a search like bathroom vanities for example and my ads for the next few weeks are bathroom supply houses etc...
I though sketchy ad networks were par for the course on VerticalScope forums? In other news, the people who own this site don't really care about Alfa Romeos....
I didn't even realize there were ads on this site. I'm using a Mac and Google Chrome with AdBlocker enabled. I don't have a paid account so it must be AdBlocker keeping these off my radar. Maybe install it, too.
I don't get any political adds at all on the computer. Not that I would read them After all that they did to Brett Kavanaugh I will never vote for that party again.
Nothing personal about it. I come to the forum to get a break from all the political nonsense that has sprouted. I just feel that this add is wrong in many ways. I would feel the same if it was bashing the left. The Forum Admin. should be able to choose thet types of ads that are on the site, whether they be political or sexual. I bet you guys would take down nude photos of a girl straddling a giulia> Come to think of it, let's start a naked girls of Alfa thread.
Nothing personal about it. I come to the forum to get a break from all the political nonsense that has sprouted. I just feel that this add is wrong in many ways. I would feel the same if it was bashing the left. The Forum Admin. should be able to choose thet types of ads that are on the site, whether they be political or sexual. I bet you guys would take down nude photos of a girl straddling a giulia>
If you are viewing from a laptop or desktop PC, you can use ad-blocker extensions to remove those ads. I recommend uBlock Origin
The ads you see aren't managed by the site. In fact, the ads are provided by Google and are tailored specifically to you based on your browsing history and such. So there isn't anything the site admins can do about the ads you see.
And then there's my wife, who can't walk past a "Chance to Win" sign without stopping and signing up. It does not matter what it is, as long as it's free. Then she's pissed that she gets all this spam email and spam phone calls. I keep trying to tell her that all they want is her personal info so they can sell it. Either she doesn't believe me or she doesn't care. I'm always amazed at what I end up dragging home because she actually wins free stuff though. She actually won a 'white elephant' once.
Too funny, after I did as you suggested the first ad I saw was the one @alfa55 objected to in the original post that started this thread. Think I preferred the penile implant ads.
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