The Internet thinks I am a Jewish woman

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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In fact I am a Gentile man, but it seems that, lately, nearly every web site I go to shows me advertisements for The Tablet (the Jewish oriented magazine), or for women’s clothing, especially from the Spiegel catalog.

I did visit The Tablet’s site once, a month or so ago, following a link to a story about antisemitism, and I did once visit the Spiegel site, following a link from, IIRC, a post here at the Dope that mentioned the Spiegel catalog, and I clicked through because I did not know what it was. I did not explore beyond the home page.

I have no particular interest in Jewish issues, and I have never bought clothing of any sort online, let alone women’s clothing. I do buy other things, such as books, electronics, and occasionally even OTC pharmaceuticals, online, but do I see ads for those? Nooooo (well, certainly far less than for The Tablet and Spiegel).

So much for targeted advertising. (Actually, I am rather glad to find that the targeting is, apparently, so bad.)

2

Well, if the internet says it’s so, it must be so.

Get thee to a mikvah, pronto.

3

Is Spiegel supposed to be Jewish clothes? They’re just… clothes. My (white, Catholic) mom used to get their catalogs all the time.

Joe

4

He gets ads for The Tablet (internet thinks he’s Jewish) and Spiegel’s (internet thinks he’s a woman).

5

that’s okay, my Tivo thinks I’m gay.

6

I’ve had a surprising number of ads think I’m French. I thick my browser’s default language being set to Esperanto confuses them.

On the other hand, sometimes they’re surprisingly-accurate. It’s slightly disconcerting to be reading a news site from Australia and find it peppered with Canadian ads.

7

You could still become a Jewish woman, but you’d really have to go the extra mohel.

8

And with that groaner, you win the thread. :slight_smile:

Happy Hanukkah, njtt!