# Who do we complain to about Google ads? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 2, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-we-complain-to-about-google-ads/390578 "2007-02-02T18:36:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-we-complain-to-about-google-ads/390578/1 "2007-02-02T18:36:39Z")
Yeah, I know. I should have been paying attention when it was announced. But there is a religious glurge ad at the bottom of the [RC and Peanuts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=406491) thread in GQ that is annoying me. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-we-complain-to-about-google-ads/390578/2 "2007-02-02T18:41:06Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Yeah, I know. I should have been paying attention when it was announced. But there is a religious glurge ad at the bottom of the [RC and Peanuts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=406491) thread in GQ that is annoying me. [/QUOTE] [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7697105&postcount=5](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7697105&postcount=5) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-we-complain-to-about-google-ads/390578/3 "2007-02-02T18:46:40Z")
Thenk yew! ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-we-complain-to-about-google-ads/390578/4 "2007-02-03T14:21:56Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Thenk yew! [/QUOTE] Shirley. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-we-complain-to-about-google-ads/390578/5 "2007-02-03T17:32:59Z")
If you can complain in a sufficiently entertaining, humorous or vitriolic fashion, you should start a Pit thread. Just don’t expect it to do any good. The same goes for any other ads you see that annoy you: TV commercials, magazine ads, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-we-complain-to-about-google-ads/390578/6 "2007-02-03T20:14:21Z")
Remember that the ads you see might be targeted specifically for your computer for whatever odd reasons. And may change randomly from view to view. When I clicked on that thread link I saw nothing but cola ads. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-we-complain-to-about-google-ads/390578/7 "2007-02-03T22:10:58Z")
So it’s my computer that’s decided that I need to read the “Left Behind” books? Must be all the porn sites I visit. My computer is worried about me. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-we-complain-to-about-google-ads/390578/8 "2007-02-03T22:27:40Z")
The terms of service of the Google [Adsense](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adsense) ads prohibit the site publisher from asking site visitors (us) to click on the ads ads, but I am just another visitor, so I can state as my personal opinion: _if an ad annoys you, just click on it to cost the advertiser money._ (but nobody should embark on some sort of clicking campaing, with either anti-advertiser or pro-SDMB motives, as this would be detected by Google as [click fraud](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_fraud), which would run the risk of Google terminating the account.)