Google Ads

[RileyE104]

In the past week EVERY ad that I have seen from Goggle has to do with Silver/Gold and surprisingly, Justin Amash for Congress...

It's starting to freak me out.... lol

Why is it all of a sudden doing this?
I used to get the occasional Gold coin ads but nothing like this.


Screenie:

http://i30.tinypic.com/kamiw2.gif

[Kludge]

Depends on your viewing history, generally. I get a lot of Google, Fred Thompson, solar panel, & gay ads (um... because of the threads I've viewed on the forum). Don't recall seeing any for gold/silver.

Otherwise, sometimes advertisers launch new aggressive campaigns. Google takes "CPC bids" into account when deciding which ads to post, which just means advertisers who offer more $/click are more likely to be served on RPFs & other sites with Adsense.

It also depends on the website you visit as Google Adwords advertisers can have Google target certain website demographics & use specific keywords.

Edit: Important note - clicking on liberty candidates' Google ads costs them money, FWIW.

[WaltM]

what is that page?

[RileyE104]

what is that page?

im watching a TV show :p

[Rael]

They are tracking your behavior.

[Rael]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=2822639#post2822639

[Zippyjuan]

Right now this page has a Southern Cal Edison ad. I am not even in their territory (Yes, in CA but served by Sempra SDGE, not SoCalEd). No idea how that relates to anything I have been doing. Sometimes they seem to be tied loosely to a headline for a thread I am reading.

Just changed to "Obama's New World Order" LOL!

[libertybrewcity]

I looked up public storage once and i got the public storage comapny ads for a week. I get a lot of political candidates too. I've been getting the Justin Amash one a lot. I also get Apmex ads among some others.. It is kinda creepy how they know what I am looking at. They are probably in their beta testing stage too, so it will only get more advanced and micro-targeted as time goes on.

[LibertyRevolution]

I just cannot understand why people still see ads...
All it does is slow down your web page loading and fill your view with useless crap.

Do you all know there is this thing called firefox, and an add-on called AdBlock Plus?

Ads are nonexistent to me...

I also run NoScript add-on, it blocks everything, including google-analytics...

[Kludge]

I just cannot understand why people still see ads...
All it does is slow down your web page loading and fill your view with useless crap.

Do you all know there is this thing called firefox, and an add-on called AdBlock Plus?

Ads are nonexistent to me...

I also run NoScript add-on, it blocks everything, including google-analytics...

Websites rely on ad revenue to pay their server costs. I generally favor the websites of which have ads I click. If I did not think this website were worth sustaining, I would have disabled ads and not paid an annual fee (which I think I'm behind on).

[LibertyRevolution]

Well even when I did see ads I never clicked on them, you don't know where or what its going to install. So no one is losing anything far as that goes.

You do know just allowing an ad to load, let alone clicking on it, can infect your computer.

For your reference:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138457/Drudge_other_sites_flooded_with_malicious_ads

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/research-13-million-malicious-ads-viewed-daily/6466

I choose having a safe clean computer over helping to continue this horrible ad based business model of self installing infections.
But go right ahead and keep viewing ads. Its all fun and games until your system is compromised by some malicious ad.