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Site Management => Site Support / Feedback => Topic started by: Scotty on June 01, 2010, 01:45:02 am
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Are the ads at the top of the screen self-aware or something?
Discussion about Israel/Middle East ---> "Want to Learn Hebrew?"
Voice Acting Board ---> "Free Open Casting Calls"
Discussion about nuclear weapons ---> "The Great Tribulation" (Free bible pdfs)
Religious Discussion ---> "Become a Pastor!"
What are you listening to? ---> Aol Music ad.
Just a few I've noticed.
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Google ads scan the content of the page you're viewing, then pick a related ad (AFAIK). This way, they hope, you may see an ad relevant to your interests.
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sometimes the ads on mibbit are really racist.
dating sites for finding your persian princess, etc.
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why is that racist?
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posting in possible epic threadnought
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why is that racist?
It was either a joke or she was just trolling, as per usual. :P
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soooo, Google Ads check content to decide the appropriate ad? At the moment, the ad at the top of this thread is:
2012 & Armageddon Massive destruction begins before 2012 and turns into Armageddon
I don't think Google has much fraith in this thread :P
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It's "Reaping the Whirlwind - The Imminent Judgment for Babylon America" to me right now.
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Bet that's got to do with the
Discussion about nuclear weapons ---> "The Great Tribulation" (Free bible pdfs)
But for me now, it's just "Win a weekend on vacation".
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World Cup T-Shirts
Pizza Hut
National Shirts
:confused:
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Mine was saying something about the 'Antichrist' and 'who is watching?' What on earth they is doing?!?!?
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I'm getting an advertisement for a church in my city. I think it's checking IP addresses, now.
That means that it's... learning. :shaking:
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On a more serious and off-topic note: that's probably how AI will first be implemented or invented.
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Skynet anyone?
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What does Booking a Table at a local restaurant have to do with the content of this page? :wtf:
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posting in possible epic threadnought
Threadnought denied. Moved to Site Support.
Though I'm getting the "Armageddon" ad too now. :blah:
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I'm getting a Zoosk ad, maybe cos I got Facebook open on another tab, (Zoosk is Facebooks dating service! :nervous: But I'm married!)
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I've been getting an awful lot of car insurance adds lately. Better refrain from driving for awhile.
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My advertisement is completely blank now....
I'm starting to get freaked out, over here. :nervous:
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And you think that's scary, guys? My advertisement is almost always about Colgate and their new toothpaste that relieves dental sensitivity. The thing is... the only people who knew about my dental sensitivity, until now, were my family and my dentist. I never googled it or anything like that. This is the first time I even write about it (I don't consider it embarrassing, it's a quite common medical problem). And I'm the only person who uses this computer.
I guess Google really knows everything... EVERYTHING. :lol:
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And now it will be on the internet forever
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And now it will be on the internet forever
And that would be bad because...
:confused:
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I'm just getting the usual game ads. I feel kind of let down. :p
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Yay ad-blocking plugin :D
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Yay ad-blocking plugin :D
But you're missing all the fun! :lol:
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But you're missing all the fun! :lol:
Cue add for Red Dead: Redemption at the top of the page. I've heard that's a whole lot a fun from several friends.
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I'm just getting the usual game ads. I feel kind of let down. :p
Ya, same here. Though for some reason I get a lot of chrome ads as well.
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Yay ad-blocking plugin :D
Someone add Aardwolf to the must donate daily to view HLP due to blocking necessary revenue list.
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Anyone who blocks ads on HLP or Game Warden is a retard. They should all know very well that HLP and Game Warden depends on ads to pay monthly bills. MatthewPapa and other admins have generously paid many times whole months out of their own pockets. I wonder how many of those could have been avoided if we didn't have people blocking ads.
You don't have to click on any ads. Just letting them load properly is enough to generate income. Spam-clicking is prohibited however, so don't do that. If you do that and Google cancels current AdSense account, we'll find out your IP-address and permanently ban you.
Aardwolf refused to let ads to load on HLP despite being informed how important they are. You can do whatever you please with him. As for me, I'm editing his title.
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Cue add for Red Dead: Redemption at the top of the page. I've heard that's a whole lot a fun from several friends.
Bingo. Creepy.
I shall edit with each update...
1. Campaign management.
2. Star sonata.
3. Allstate insurance.
I will now attempt to seed future results:
"Monkeys. Monkeys monkeys monkeys.
Monkey chow! Monkeys love monkey chow, and if there were a chow I'd buy for a monkey, it'd be Monkey Chow Brand Monkey Chow.
Pet monkeys. Monkey supplies. Monkey toys. Monkey clothes. Monkey beds. Monkey hats. All things monkeys love. Things to buy for a pet monkey. Food, or in other words, chow, for a pet Monkey whose name happens to be Chow. Chow the pet monkey.
Monkey chow. Monkey chow. Monkey chow? Monkey chow!
I am interested in buying monkey chow. If only there were a link for monkey chow."
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e-mail marketing?
:wtf:
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I will now attempt to seed future results:
"Monkeys. Monkeys monkeys monkeys.
Monkey chow! Monkeys love monkey chow, and if there were a chow I'd buy for a monkey, it'd be Monkey Chow Brand Monkey Chow.
Pet monkeys. Monkey supplies. Monkey toys. Monkey clothes. Monkey beds. Monkey hats. All things monkeys love. Things to buy for a pet monkey. Food, or in other words, chow, for a pet Monkey whose name happens to be Chow. Chow the pet monkey.
Monkey chow. Monkey chow. Monkey chow? Monkey chow!
I am interested in buying monkey chow. If only there were a link for monkey chow."
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Thank you.
Also, on some page I saw an ad for a free spell checker. And I do not wonder why.
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Oops, forgot about how important ads were - in Ad-Block Plus - disable on: hard-light.net
And, I always seem to see Plenty of Fish.com - I'm not interested in online dating...
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And, I always seem to see Plenty of Fish.com - I'm not interested in online dating...
Same here. It must know how ****ing desperate I am.
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Hop down to the local bar or chavette hood with some weed then. Just wear a nike jacket of some sort with baggy trackpants, claim to trade marijuana for fellatio and profit. :D
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Hop down to the local bar or chavette hood with some weed then. Just wear a nike jacket of some sort with baggy trackpants, claim to trade marijuana for fellatio and profit. :D
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balls
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On the homosexuality thread, the ad at the top of the page was just "Meet gay men near you."
:blah:
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That's hilarious :lol:
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Snail should be thrilled :lol:
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I'm often getting zoosk ads, too. Heh, perhaps Google associates "gaming" with "people who want a date".
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Snail should be thrilled :lol:
MONGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE
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Ad at the top of the General Discussion board index: "Sex, War, and Evolution."
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You can do whatever you please with him. As for me, I'm editing his title.
Allow me to tell you, with all due respect, that while I agree with you on the necessity of letting ads display properly, and on the irrationality and egoism of not doing so, it is my opinion that such measures speak poorly of you as a respectable authority, and probably aren't going to make him change his behaviour anyway.
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But if he does nothing, he tacitly condones the behavior.
That aside, I'm still kind of confused why this was moved to the Site Support board. Insight?
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You can do whatever you please with him. As for me, I'm editing his title.
Allow me to tell you, with all due respect, that while I agree with you on the necessity of letting ads display properly, and on the irrationality and egoism of not doing so, it is my opinion that such measures speak poorly of you as a respectable authority, and probably aren't going to make him change his behaviour anyway.
Aardwolf has a history.
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You can do whatever you please with him. As for me, I'm editing his title.
Allow me to tell you, with all due respect, that while I agree with you on the necessity of letting ads display properly, and on the irrationality and egoism of not doing so, it is my opinion that such measures speak poorly of you as a respectable authority, and probably aren't going to make him change his behaviour anyway.
Aardwolf has a history.
Then I retract of my previous comment.
Still, I feel uncomfortable when an authority acts in such a way.
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Ad at the top of the General Discussion board index: "Sex, War, and Evolution."
It's like they know us or something.
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Top of the Gaming Discussion Boards: "Build your dream PC"
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That aside, I'm still kind of confused why this was moved to the Site Support board. Insight?
Had this thread been about Google Ads in general, I would have left it in GD. But it was specifically about ads shown at HLP, so it was about HLP -> Site Support.
Right?
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I was just posting an interesting correlation I had noticed, intended for humorous effect.
I wasn't really a plea to site administration or anything like that.
EDIT: Meh, not really important anyway, I was just curious about the reasons for the move.
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HLP main page - the WSPA!?
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(http://i49.tinypic.com/14dq7id.png)
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Wait. What? :lol:
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So lvlshot doesn't work, anymore. :/
Yes it does -Fury
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Google, I'm never going to buy StarSonata, so let's mix it up a little.
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i just dont understand why you guys dont just block the ads and be done with it........ ( not as a site but as a user) i have after they started playing music ...
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i just dont understand why you guys dont just block the ads and be done with it........ ( not as a site but as a user) i have after they started playing music ...
My ads have never played music, or sound.
Me thinks you need to clear your cache. And stop viewing pornographic websites or stop using Limewire.
You know, whichever.
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If you block ads, then donate.
http://www.hard-light.net/donate/
It's the least you can do.
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The ads never played moosic for me...
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The ads never played moosic for me...
Ya, same here. I have never seen google ads do any music or sound even.
Though apparently according to Google (https://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guidelines.cs) thier ads can have music iff the user starts it. That being said any ad that I have seen on HLP has always been an image ad (animated gif) or text ads never any flash:
Integrated Audio: Your ad may contain user-initiated audio only.
@captain-custard: I would check to make sure the ads that you were complaining about actually are from Google, and your browser and/or computer has not been compromised with an ad generator.
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Well, there were some ads that interpreted "mouseover" as an invitation to play sound. Bloody irritating, that was.
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We should make an experiment to discover if there is a system behind all this ad stuff (which I guess there is), we all talk about some common topic and then check if the ads change accordingly.
Famous topics like... don't know... religion, death, evolution... boobs?
Maybe after knowing google ads can be modified, I can start to think of a way to beat Skynet
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We've...kind of been doing that for this whole thread. :p
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Yeah and I've mostly been getting Plentyoffish ads, and that Zoosk ad? Nobody is talking about dating here?
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Can you say... Monkey chow?
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"Monkey Chow? For what"
"Well, for the monkeys!"
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boobs?
What about those old "Hottest Woman on the Planet" threads?
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I'll go check. *Crosses fingers*
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"Monkey Chow? For what"
"Well, for the monkeys!"
I concur. Monkey chow! I say, monkey chow chow chow chow monkey monkey chow. Yes. :)
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I'm getting $50 of free advertising on Google now. At least it's more relevant than PoF.com...
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I'm guessing it's zone related as well... I'm getting "club tang" thing, a promotion for a juice brand on Argentina so.... G ads might be smarter than we originally thought them to be :shaking:
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I'm guessing it's zone related as well... I'm getting "club tang" thing, a promotion for a juice brand on Argentina so.... G ads might be smarter than we originally thought them to be :shaking:
Yes it does is. This one is from last year's legislative elections.
(http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/909/curiosob.jpg)
It missed for quite a few kilometers, but it was weird nevertheless...
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G knows where we live and there's no escape.... we are doomed!!
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So apparently I'm "Retarded Derp!" now :mad:
Fury, you're an asshole.
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So apparently I'm "Retarded Derp!" now :mad:
Fury, eat **** and die in a fire.
Between calling him mud puppy and changing his custom title, Aardwolf provides fun for the whole family!
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Aw, someone saw it before I edited it.
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I don't think the ultimate outcome will be affected either way.
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I don't think the ultimate outcome will be affected either way.
Hooray, you are alive!
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Yeah, I am. Haven't been playing much FS recently; Doom has been eating up much of my video gaming time. Anything particularly interesting since I was gone?
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Snail came out of the closet, and Aardwolf derp'd it up. That's about it.
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Snail came out of the closet, and Aardwolf derp'd it up. That's about it.
MONGOOOOOOOOSE YOU ****ING BASTARD :P
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So when did this happen?
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A few days ago, actually. Was kinda funny in the "I'm glad that didn't happen to me" sense.
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I still exist somehow. Yay.
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So when did this happen?
IT DIDN'T
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Snail and his friend are moving in together pretty soon. It is adorable.
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Snail and his friend are moving in together pretty soon. It is adorable.
Are you like reading my latest posts thing or something? WHY DO YOU KEEP FIRST REPLYING TO MY POSTS?!
AND WHAT THE **** I AM NOT GAY ASSHOLES!
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Snail and his friend are moving in together pretty soon. It is adorable.
Are you like reading my latest posts thing or something? WHY DO YOU KEEP FIRST REPLYING TO MY POSTS?!
AND WHAT THE **** I AM NOT GAY ASSHOLES!
Well, if you prefer oral, that's fine, we're not here to pass judgment.
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Yeah, I think that's enough.