# Sometimes, I hate The Internet
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 6, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087 "2015-01-06T01:56:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/1 "2015-01-06T01:56:39Z")
For years now, The Internet has been my life. I’m not a social person (except when I’m drinking), and I love spending my time on The Internet.
But, dammit, Internet, stop following me around!
What? Why?
I live alone. Just me. But, on my computer, I have set up a completely separate user account specifically for surfing porn. My primary reason for this is that, in the unlikely event that somebody else (Mom?) sits down at my computer, they’re not going to immediately find porn in their face. No porn links in my browser history, no porn lying around on my desktop.
The secondary reason for the separate user account is to separate my primary Internet identity from my porn-surfing identity. Any porn/sex/erotic-related sites that I sign into under this user account are signed into with names unrelated to any of my “regular” Internet identities.
So imagine my discomfiture when various porn “tube” sites started, and continued, to throw up “granny porn” ads on every damned video I clicked on.
See, I work in a retirement home as a cook. I feed “grannies”. The only place on the whole Internet where this information is available, along with my real name, is on my Facebook page. I’ve posted here about where I work, and of course my posts have been under my user name.
I had not installed an ad blocker under my porn user account, because sometimes the ads led me to something I was interested in. But goddammit, within a few months of my updating my employment status on Facebook, the whole Internet apparently connected my IP address with “old people”, and all of the free porn sites suddenly started spamming me with “granny porn” ads.
To which I say, “DO. NOT. WANT.” These ads have completely replaced the ads for porn I might actually be interested in. I finally had to install an ad blocker to get rid of that shit. Nothing worse than searching for “teen porn” and having photos of naked geriatrics shoved in my face.
Fuck you, Internet!
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### Author:  [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/2 "2015-01-06T02:33:53Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
>
> For years now, The Internet has been my life. I’m not a social person (except when I’m drinking), and I love spending my time on The Internet.
>
> But, dammit, Internet, stop following me around!
>
> What? Why?
>
> I live alone. Just me. But, on my computer, I have set up a completely separate user account specifically for surfing porn. My primary reason for this is that, in the unlikely event that somebody else (Mom?) sits down at my computer, they’re not going to immediately find porn in their face. No porn links in my browser history, no porn lying around on my desktop.
>
> The secondary reason for the separate user account is to separate my primary Internet identity from my porn-surfing identity. Any porn/sex/erotic-related sites that I sign into under this user account are signed into with names unrelated to any of my “regular” Internet identities.
>
> So imagine my discomfiture when various porn “tube” sites started, and continued, to throw up “granny porn” ads on every damned video I clicked on.
>
> See, I work in a retirement home as a cook. I feed “grannies”. The only place on the whole Internet where this information is available, along with my real name, is on my Facebook page. I’ve posted here about where I work, and of course my posts have been under my user name.
>
> I had not installed an ad blocker under my porn user account, because sometimes the ads led me to something I was interested in. But goddammit, within a few months of my updating my employment status on Facebook, the whole Internet apparently connected my IP address with “old people”, and all of the free porn sites suddenly started spamming me with “granny porn” ads.
>
> To which I say, “DO. NOT. WANT.” These ads have completely replaced the ads for porn I might actually be interested in. I finally had to install an ad blocker to get rid of that shit. Nothing worse than searching for “teen porn” and having photos of naked geriatrics shoved in my face.
>
> Fuck you, Internet!
wow, that sucks
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### Author:  [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/3 "2015-01-06T02:38:25Z")
Maybe you need to update your facebook etc to express an interest very young children. That way, the ads will presumably average out to middle aged porn.
On second thoughts, maybe this isn’t a good idea.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/4 "2015-01-06T02:38:57Z")
Did you see that pic of Amy Purdy?
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### Author:  [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2015, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/5 "2015-01-06T04:56:23Z")
Who signs into porn sites?
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2015, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/6 "2015-01-06T05:48:08Z")
> [@Fubaya](#):
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> Who signs into porn sites?
That’s the thing! I’m talking about free porn sites I simply look at, with no sign-in! Shoving granny-porn at me!
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2015, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/7 "2015-01-06T05:54:49Z")
You might be being tracked by your IP address. It doesn’t matter what user account you use on your computer if they all use the same IP address.
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### Author:  [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2015, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/8 "2015-01-06T06:44:52Z")
That’s funny—some of the links I’ve clicked on here on the SDMB have shown up on my Facebook.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/9 "2015-01-07T03:58:35Z")
Oly Beer and Granny pron. You’re a case study, you are.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/10 "2015-01-07T04:27:57Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#):
>
> Did you see that pic of Amy Purdy?
Who?
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/11 "2015-01-07T04:40:30Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
>
> To which I say, “DO. NOT. WANT.” These ads have completely replaced the ads for porn I might actually be interested in. I finally had to install an ad blocker to get rid of that shit. **Nothing worse than searching for “teen porn” and having photos of naked geriatrics shoved in my face.**
Hey, at least the naked geriatrics is legal!
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### Author:  [@The\_Joker\_and\_the\_Thief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Joker_and_the_Thief)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/12 "2015-01-07T05:00:11Z")
Life sure is one tragedy after another.
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### Author:  [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2015, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/13 "2015-01-07T06:16:29Z")
Give it a few years. You’ll eventually see this as a feature, not a bug.
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### Author:  [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/14 "2015-01-07T14:59:22Z")
There is no correlation between where someone works and their porn viewing preferences.
So it is silly to think the ad serving software is going to the trouble to link the two.
It is likely a bug in the software, or you accidentally clicked on granny porn sometime in the past.
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### Author:  [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hate-the-internet/709087/15 "2015-01-07T23:12:07Z")
> [@LionelHutz405](#):
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> There is no correlation between where someone works and their porn viewing preferences.
> So it is silly to think the ad serving software is going to the trouble to link the two.
>
> It is likely a bug in the software, or you accidentally clicked on granny porn sometime in the past.
While you could be right, I think you might be assuming a level of sophistication in the algorithms that is not justified. The algorithms working with your available data aren’t going to be doing complex analysis in order to understand exactly why the word “geriatric” appears in your Facebook.