# Ads for Trump Merch
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-for-trump-merch/930168
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [January 10, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-for-trump-merch/930168 "2021-01-10T04:56:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-for-trump-merch/930168/1 "2021-01-10T04:56:34Z")
I’m seeing endless ads on the board for Trump trading cards, commemorative coins and a host of other Trump shit. Is there any way to remove these. For God(win)’s sake, what’s next? Hitler tea cozies?
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### Author:  [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-for-trump-merch/930168/2 "2021-01-11T08:31:58Z")
The consensus seems to be stop searching out Trump and the ads will change.
> [@Do we need gun ads?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-need-gun-ads/929284/27):
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> It’s based on your browser history, IP, and anything else that those sneaky ad companies can figure out about you. It doesn’t have to be something direct, i.e. you didn’t have to search for guns. It could be something less directly related, such as the fact that you browse the Straight Dope and we have gun threads here. It could also be that your physical location (based off of your IP) is an area that tends to lean to the right. Ad brokers don’t publish their algorithms, so we may never know…
I have never seen a Trump or gun ad but I also don’t go looking for those things.
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-for-trump-merch/930168/3 "2021-01-11T14:02:53Z")
> [@Enjoy\_Slurm](#):
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> I have never seen a Trump or gun ad but I also don’t go looking for those things.
Neither do I, except almost every active thread at the moment is related to Trump in some way.
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### Author:  [@CoconutPete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoconutPete)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-for-trump-merch/930168/4 "2021-01-11T14:04:59Z")
I’ve seen the 50 free Trump coins ads, I mentioned it in another thread.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-for-trump-merch/930168/5 "2021-01-11T14:08:28Z")
'tis a fiendish strategy to make you subscribe, Elmer 😝
But, you do realize that by reiterating the subject in this thread you are only feeding the ad carrier’s algorithm.
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-for-trump-merch/930168/6 "2021-01-11T14:14:41Z")
Yeah. My wife’s suggestion is to click on the ads so the objectionable advertisers get charged for the click. If I’m really lucky, it’s one of the stores taken down by Amazon or Shopify hosting and they’ll still be charged. Alas, I’m not that bold.
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-for-trump-merch/930168/7 "2021-01-11T18:34:03Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> {…} what’s next? Hitler tea cozies?
Link? I really need one of those for my collection!
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### Author:  [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-for-trump-merch/930168/8 "2021-01-11T20:24:48Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#):
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> 'tis a fiendish strategy to make you subscribe
A flawed strategy, seeing as you can’t buy a subscription even if you wanted to.
~Max
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### Author:  [@CoconutPete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoconutPete)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-for-trump-merch/930168/9 "2021-01-11T20:31:13Z")
Have people so quickly forgot about the Hitler Teapot that was all the rage not so long ago?
[ ](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/5/29/1369836658299/ed1a7c3c-7691-4309-a8ae-8fd5b3e59183-bestSizeAvailable.jpeg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5e088f655d8a927396d4ff727e470926)
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-for-trump-merch/930168/10 "2021-01-11T22:51:05Z")
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