How is this hypocrisy or not family friendly? It's an advert for what appears to be some kind of new sports wear. I see women wearing far less than that on posters/billboards, in magazines, on adverts and in person on the street, every day. That is no more revealing or innappropriate than the average workout leotard worn by women in the 1980s, and this is the 21st century now. It's a bit hard to say that advert is not family friendly when we live in a society that finds it acceptable to show far more flesh to kids everywhere they look, every day.
As a devoted muslim, I find it very offensive, and pornographic, to see a woman outside of her burka. See what im getting at here? Morality is subjective. This is "family friendly" from a western european standpoint, but what about the other users of Minecraft Forum?
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This is a western founded site with a mostly western audience. So I guess you'll just have to suck it up eh?
If you ever come to saudi arabia, I want you to suck up to seeing women subjugated, I want you to suck up to seeing public executions of adulterers, and rapists. I dont want you to criticize our lifestyle at all, because there is no absolute good. I want you to stand idly by and watch, as a zoologist would watch a lion take down a gazelle. Do this, and I will not criticize your pornographic advertisements, on a supposedly family friendly website.
If you don't think the contents of an advert is suitable, report it to the admins.
The admins don't personally go through every advert that gets put up.
Sometimes something slips through.
I have reported this to be moved to forum discussion.
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Those adverts are specific to you, you've visited something that indicates to advertisers you're interested in women's wear. Don't be ashamed, we all like to think we look great in a bikini.
Those adverts are specific to you, you've visited something that indicates to advertisers you're interested in women's wear. Don't be ashamed, we all like to think we look great in a bikini.
Good one, Citric.
I have a question, though - all the ads I'm seeing are related to laundry and Curse Premium. I don't think I've visited anything about laundry in the past two years, and I'm not very interested in Curse Premium. What's up with that?
Again though, these ads are tied to your browsing habits/search history for google. Either through IP address or unique browser fingerprint, or many other methods.
For instance, if I log out, I see ads for cookware/food. I do a lot of recipe and appliance searching, so this makes sense. I don't see any ads for clothing, makeup, or diabeetus.
Most ads on most sites from most ad providers have been doing this since at least 2006 or so. It's pretty common, if not the norm.
Well, at least I get Alright advertisements. About Space RPGs and some WW2 flying games. But I do get some anime MMORPG characters here and there. No idea why though.
Why can I never have an ad about computers, plane based or anything I like!? I don't want stupid ads (which I won't say because they are just too horrible to explain)
Well, at least I get Alright advertisements. About Space RPGs and some WW2 flying games. But I do get some anime MMORPG characters here and there. No idea why though.
Why can I never have an ad about computers, plane based or anything I like!? I don't want stupid ads (which I won't say because they are just too horrible to explain)
Wouldn't it be great if ads were actually targeted that well? They'd be so much more valuable, even to the consumer...
When you see sleazy outfits for young women next to drugs for the elderly, you know the targeting is off, but advertising RPGs instead of shooters or whatever is pretty much par for the course.
Wouldn't it be great if ads were actually targeted that well?
They are. The only reason you would see something that is unrelated is if you're running a blocker of some sort, or you are not the only person on that IP address.
I'm unsure why many people seem to think targeted ads are "new" and "inaccurate", they have been in place over half a decade or more and unless you are doing something to interrupt it, they will be accurate.
................... Actually wait, that's not what is happening here at all.
The OP is using a phone and not using the wifi. The targeted ads will be looking at the AT&T node's (cell tower) IP address, which could literally have anything attached to them for targeted advertising.
I'd bet if he drove a few miles and his phone connected to a different cell tower with a different node/IP address, he would see completely random different ads.
Given the site ads are what people search for or browse, and he is on a mobile network, of course they are completely random. That is how the advertising works, it was not meant to function properly on a wide network like 3G/4G with literally thousands of users connecting/disconnecting to/from it every day. It was meant to target home users and specific people with products they would be interested in. It doesn't work if so many people are using the wifi.
You can see similar results if you went to a public wifi hotspot and got weird ads. It's the same thing behind it.
This isn't a troll...... Look up how targeted advertising works.
Now look at his screenshot, wifi is not enabled, this means he is browsing the web over 4G. The cell tower has it's own IP address that multiple phones are connected to, the ads will point to this IP when showing ads.
Chances are, someone searched for those kinds of things while connected to that cell tower.
Thus, those are the kinds of ads it shows.
It's impossible to tie targeted ads towards a specific device, you either do it through login details or via IP. Google adsense uses both, and when one fails it falls back on the other.
It's impossible to tie targeted ads towards a specific device
This is what cookies are used for, it's quite a common practice. This user probably hadn't encountered any of these ad servers on that device, and they haven't been able to build up a profile. Thus, the "targeting is off," as I said earlier.
The only things you'll get from an IP address are a soft regional profile and the ISP. These are not really that useful for profiling consumers. Storing cookies on the device and tracking them across sites is where it's at.
The more you know. *
And by the way, in my experience no advertiser has ever been precise enough to know things like "you are a gamer who likes RTS," or "you are a developer who likes perl." They are more along the lines of "you are a gamer," "you are a developer." Maybe they capture this information, but the companies running ads don't get this fine-grained control as far as I know. YMMV.
Again, yes, the targeting will be off. If no cookies are found, or in another situation, it will fall back on the IP address. ALL IP addresses have this kind of thing attached to them.
Thus is what the OP is seeing.
...........Unless he does have cookies on his mobile device for looking up women's clothing and diabeetus pills.
Welcome to the family friendly Minecraft Forums.
Not quite sure how forever alone works in this context.
As a devoted muslim, I find it very offensive, and pornographic, to see a woman outside of her burka. See what im getting at here? Morality is subjective. This is "family friendly" from a western european standpoint, but what about the other users of Minecraft Forum?
If you ever come to saudi arabia, I want you to suck up to seeing women subjugated, I want you to suck up to seeing public executions of adulterers, and rapists. I dont want you to criticize our lifestyle at all, because there is no absolute good. I want you to stand idly by and watch, as a zoologist would watch a lion take down a gazelle. Do this, and I will not criticize your pornographic advertisements, on a supposedly family friendly website.
The admins don't personally go through every advert that gets put up.
Sometimes something slips through.
I have reported this to be moved to forum discussion.
I am here for you, Don't be afraid to send me a message.
Good one, Citric.
I have a question, though - all the ads I'm seeing are related to laundry and Curse Premium. I don't think I've visited anything about laundry in the past two years, and I'm not very interested in Curse Premium. What's up with that?
For instance, if I log out, I see ads for cookware/food. I do a lot of recipe and appliance searching, so this makes sense. I don't see any ads for clothing, makeup, or diabeetus.
Most ads on most sites from most ad providers have been doing this since at least 2006 or so. It's pretty common, if not the norm.
Why can I never have an ad about computers, plane based or anything I like!? I don't want stupid ads (which I won't say because they are just too horrible to explain)
Wouldn't it be great if ads were actually targeted that well? They'd be so much more valuable, even to the consumer...
When you see sleazy outfits for young women next to drugs for the elderly, you know the targeting is off, but advertising RPGs instead of shooters or whatever is pretty much par for the course.
See here:
http://en.wikipedia....ted_advertising
I'm unsure why many people seem to think targeted ads are "new" and "inaccurate", they have been in place over half a decade or more and unless you are doing something to interrupt it, they will be accurate.
................... Actually wait, that's not what is happening here at all.
The OP is using a phone and not using the wifi. The targeted ads will be looking at the AT&T node's (cell tower) IP address, which could literally have anything attached to them for targeted advertising.
I'd bet if he drove a few miles and his phone connected to a different cell tower with a different node/IP address, he would see completely random different ads.
Given the site ads are what people search for or browse, and he is on a mobile network, of course they are completely random. That is how the advertising works, it was not meant to function properly on a wide network like 3G/4G with literally thousands of users connecting/disconnecting to/from it every day. It was meant to target home users and specific people with products they would be interested in. It doesn't work if so many people are using the wifi.
You can see similar results if you went to a public wifi hotspot and got weird ads. It's the same thing behind it.
Now look at his screenshot, wifi is not enabled, this means he is browsing the web over 4G. The cell tower has it's own IP address that multiple phones are connected to, the ads will point to this IP when showing ads.
Chances are, someone searched for those kinds of things while connected to that cell tower.
Thus, those are the kinds of ads it shows.
It's impossible to tie targeted ads towards a specific device, you either do it through login details or via IP. Google adsense uses both, and when one fails it falls back on the other.
This is what cookies are used for, it's quite a common practice. This user probably hadn't encountered any of these ad servers on that device, and they haven't been able to build up a profile. Thus, the "targeting is off," as I said earlier.
The only things you'll get from an IP address are a soft regional profile and the ISP. These are not really that useful for profiling consumers. Storing cookies on the device and tracking them across sites is where it's at.
The more you know. *
And by the way, in my experience no advertiser has ever been precise enough to know things like "you are a gamer who likes RTS," or "you are a developer who likes perl." They are more along the lines of "you are a gamer," "you are a developer." Maybe they capture this information, but the companies running ads don't get this fine-grained control as far as I know. YMMV.
Thus is what the OP is seeing.
...........Unless he does have cookies on his mobile device for looking up women's clothing and diabeetus pills.
But I'm not one to judge.