On all of the big sites lately (Yahoo, Ebay, Hotmail, etc.) I see lots of annoying singles ads all of the time. I’m very tired of how they are -er, blatant, male-oriented, and just annoying. Is this the cost of the dot-com fallout?
I have nothing aganist personals, I’m just tired of being bomarded! (That and weight loss ads showing way too much skin- ahem- Yahoo!)
I’m not trying to be prudish, but this is going too far.
(wonders if anyone gets her point…)
Get a decent ad blocker. Proxomitron works for me.
I see that I am.
Ah, well.
No you are definately and most definately not.
It’s just that this rant has been done so often that people here are tired of it.
Please don’t see that as a criticism, I am just letting you know that it is a well and trully done pit thread.
Heck, I probably hold the record for popup rants. I think my very first ever post here was a popup rant.
Get a pop up stopper and move on.
Toddly and others who kill these things with “get a popup stopper and move on”…
It’s the Principle of it. getting popup stoppers is the easy way out. we want to END popups.
Quit signing up for shit…and get an address like Yahoo or Hotmail that makes sense…It’s fucking free so why the complaint??? Sheesh. I have several Yahoo addresses that I don’t get shit on. I have one that is pretty much free from it all. Then I have my domain stuff. WHOA Nelly.
If you don’t do that, then quit whining.
If it’s your own domain, then you have something to complain about. But the moment you open an email like yahoo or hotmail…GET A FUCKING CLUE you are open to all kinds of SPAM.
People can be so goddamned stupid. See you in a couple of days when you realize what I am saying and this headache has run it’s course.
Stupid…Yahoo and Hotmail are for fucking spam not your average run-of-the-mill mail you NEED to get. Get a clue.
< roll eyes >
Put the glass down techchick. go to bed.
Um, I think the OP may have just been talking about the banner ads on the sites mentioned, not spam or pop-ups. They’re on The Onion as well, for example. It’s because there are one or two companies who are currently having great success selling personal ad services to sites who rebrand them and run them on their site. It’s quite a cunning idea, really - instead of the personals companies paying for space on the host sites, they turn them into clients instead and make profit providing the technology, while the client sites do well from commissions generated by their pre-existing communities. I’d presume that uptake on the ads themselves is also greater because it feels like part of the site rather than clicking on an advert to go elsewhere, and you know or suspect you’ve got something in common.
I’m guessing that the ubiquity of these things is somewhat faddy - it’s a good idea but I’m sure it’ll die down to a tolerable level.
No. Just no.
Free email is supported by advertising, promotions, and their ability to get subscribers to opt into affiliated pay services.
I don’t think Yahoo or Hotmail is there for the expressed purpose of spam. That’s just plain silly.
techchick68, what the fuck is your deal?
I too am sick of these stupid personal ads, constant spam, pop ups EVERYWHERE.
No, I do NOT need viagra, nor do I want a monster-sized penis!
Mademoiselle, I’ve been noticing personal ads showing up on smaller sites, such as Television Without Pity, for the past few months. I suspect it’s because personal ads are a good source of revenue but they are pretty irritating.
I don’t mind pop-ups. THey’re annoying, but I’ll just close them and ignore them, and avoid sites that I know spit out a dozen of them.
I don’t mind spam. I just delete it without reading it.
But I do mind that every time I log in to my fucking email, every single ad on the welcome page, the inbox, and each fucking message is for personal ads. And it’s always, like, three hot chicks, with fake radio buttons and the text “WHICH ONE WOULD YOU DATE?” or “WOULD YOU DO HER?” or “WHO IS PRETTIEST?” or “WOULD YOU LIKE A DATE?” “Find hot chicks to date!” “The hottest singles in your town!” “Send a free tease!” They’re all BANNER ADS BUILT INTO THE PAGE - NOT POPUPS so how would a popop blocker help this? And they’re all pictures of attractive women aiming to get the attention of men. And it’s annoying as hell.
Also, every damn site in the world seems to have its own personal ad service. I should think that a proliferation of such services would be a bad thing for those on the market, as a more diverse market would mean that each individual service would reach a smaller proportion of the total audience, thus to get good results you’d need to take out like seventeen ads in different places.
The OP was directed at the pop ups. You know, the things that run on java script to open a new window and get in the way of what you went to the website for…?
I’m wondering who should be rolling their eyes.
The person who comes into the middle of a pit thread and bitches about how the OP is whining about spam when she was whining about pop ups.
Or, the people who are sick and tired of stupid people coming into the middle of a pit thread and bitches at the OP about the wrong thing.
Either way: :rolleyes:
Learn to fucking READ.
The OP doesn’t specifically say “pop-ups,” does it?
Hey 7- UP YOURS!
The OP doesn’t mention pop-ups. In fact, I assumed she was referring to the ads that I see on Yahoo all the time (embedded into the pages) and in my Yahoo mail. One was so close to a smut picture my former boss about broke his neck trying to see what I’d been looking at.
I’m assuming the OP is talking about ads like the one on this page (scroll about halfway down the page, it’s on the right). They are on a lot of pages these days, even my news page. 
It does seem a little biased, they are mostly attractive females in the ads. I have seen 1-2 men, but not very often. I’m not totally annoyed by them yet, but it would be nice to see more men (even though I’m not single).
I was just commenting on this the other day at work, the borderline-smut ads on Hotmail. I have a Hotmail account, have had it since 1995. Yup, I get upwards of 50+ spam messages a day, but I’m attached to the address, so I keep it and just delete the spam. I use Outlook Express at home to check my mail, so I don’t usually see the ads, unless I’m at work using the web interface.
There’s a really bright pink banner ad for Diflucan on the inbox that runs fairly often, announcing that you can BE FREE OF YEAST INFECTIONS! And the right-hand side of the page usually has weight loss or dating ads: one has something to do with weight loss that has a bikini-clad woman’s ass with “cut on the dotted lines” to show how you can trim inches or some such. And there’s a ton of personals like the ones racinchikki mentioned: “Which woman would you date?” or “Hot singles waiting for YOU!” that are definitely targeted at men–boob shots of women in bikini tops or dresses almost falling off, like Zette has seen. I’m lucky in that I work somewhere that they don’t care what I’m doing so long as I do my job and it’s not illegal, so I don’t really give them too much thought other than to say to my coworker: “Dude, Hotmail is getting kinda risque with its ads!” Annoying indeed. But eh, it’s free and I choose to stick with it.
Am I the only one who gets the pop-up for dates for Jewish singles? Or the one with “meet Jewish guys today”?
I’m not single, Jewish, or attracted to men. Why would I want to meet single Jewish guys? :smack: Oy!
Incidentally, I installed Googles new FREE pop up blocker this afternoon, and it’s already blocked 64 pop-up ads, quietly and effectively, without the little “herky jerk” to the screen that I noticed some blockers do.