I don’t enjoy seeing that “Indianapolis mom loses 30 pounds” on top of “Indy man works from home…makes 50K!!!”, and “Indianapolis singles…right here!!!”.
I never thought I would miss the good ol’days of a random pop-up asking me to enlarge myself. I don’t know what technology makes this happen, but it needs to stop.
That will be all.
Half those things think I’m in Louisiana for some reason.
I think the way it works is that the ads identify the area you are in from the IP adress your ISP assigns. Since my phone company/ISP is across the border in another state, the ‘smart’ ads appear to think I live about 300 miles away.
Firefox + Adblock Plus = no more web ads, geographically targeted or otherwise
That sounds terrible. Personally I think my social life is on an upswing because I keep getting instant messages from hot local females who want to perform deviant sexual maneuvers on me!
Maybe I’m a prude, but I’m getting weary of seeing ads (and not pop ups either, which I can at least close), on basically every website, for weight loss featuring “before” and “after” bikini-clad female abdomens. I’m getting tired of seeing all those huge, ghostly white guts (funny how they never have bellies of color)! Perhaps if there were more pictures of male abs…
it wouldn’t bother me as much.
Personally I’m sick of seeing the pictures of “teeth whitening secret” featuring a smiling mouth of a black person - that’s been colorized to make their face more literally black in order to more contrast with the “naturally white” teeth. It has just enough left of the natural melanin color mixed with the pitch blackness to be in that uncanny valley in addition to looking like Death…pukey.
One I saw had a BLACK “before” and a white "after. Once I saw what was clearly a man’s belly in the before and a woman’s in the after. :eek:What kind of pill is this anyway???
It’s what Michael Jackson was taking.
Eww. What happens if I, as a brown girl, takes one of those pills?
Oh, and I hate the “I’m in Albany!” ads too.
My work’s ip address is apparently associated with our head office which is over 1100 miles away. Not only do I get the “hot singles in (town 15 hrs from here) looking to hook up”, but I also get to point and laugh at the people with the stupid guy holding a sign in their signatures. You know the ones that say something like “you’re ip address is… You live in… Be careful! I’m watching you!”
I don’t mind ads, but don’t any companies advertise products which are not total scams anymore? Like you know, a good old razor blade or a refreshing beverage? I’d be happy to see an ad for god-damn Coca Cola once in a while. 95% of the shit I see these days is “lose weight miraculously”, “whiten teeth miraculously”, “enlarge your penis miraculously”, “make tons of money at home miraculously”, “meet hot women who want to fuck you miraculously”, etc.
I’m totally with you on this
I like the phony personal ads. They’re not fooling me; I know no one around here looks remotely like that.
Occasionally, they’ll use the same photo twice in the same ad, but caption it with a different name.
The only observation I have here is that in many of the “lose 25lbs of belly fat” ads, I find myself more attracted to “before” because “after” looks like a starvation victim.
You all seem to be forgetting the one rule:
Obey
I’m on the north side of Minneapolis but according to my IP address all the skanky hos that want to hook up with me are from Minnetonka.
I hate hate hate the teeth ads. Teeth kind of gross me out, even perfectly clean ones, so I really don’t like seeing the array of Death’s Head grins every time I go to check my email. And, the “before” pictures usually look pretty normal, while the “after” pictures are just the “before” pictures Photoshopped to a shade of Krylon white that no human has ever displayed.
I also hate the dancing animated mortgage people. Christ, those are stupid. Oh, oh, and the stupid “IQ tests” that have some ridiculously easy question, like showing three super-famous people and asking you to identify one. Yeah, right, I’m going to take that “test.”
Also, now that I think about it, Rigamarole is right. Every ad I see on the internet is a scam. I can’t remember the last time I saw a legitimate product advertised.
That’s a damned good point.
I am in some kind of no man’s land, because I keep seeing “Your city mom lost 43 pounds” and “Your city mom makes $67K working at home.” Briefly, they had me in Greenville, SC.
If you rate enough Facebook ads (use the thumbs down) it will eventually start to advertise some less ridiculous stuff to you. After rating thumbs down on a bunch of miracle weight loss (acai, algae…), tooth whitening, look younger, keep your man, fix your credit crap, I eventually started getting some non-profits, books, and movies.