Trashy Women Ads

Sprint 6

Sharpest Tool
Oct 30, 2017
390
Indiana
First Name
Chris
Willys Model
  1. Pickup
Willys Year:
  1. 1950
I understand the site needs ad revenue, but the trashy women ads are getting annoying. Tired of my wife asking "What are you looking at!" Any way for administrators to control what ads show?
 
I’m not seeing any ads like that but maybe I’m so in the mode of ignoring ads that I just miss them.
 
I’m an All Star so don’t see the ads. @Pete can comment more but the ad space is what pays for the forum.

Also, it's my understanding the content of the ads is based off your personal computer’s browser’s actual search history or a calculation of what the internet thinks you would like to see based off your specific search history. In other words, what you see is based off your own computer and has nothing to do with the forum.

Gotta ask: are there any teenage boys in the house?
 
scramboleer said:
Gotta ask: are there any teenage boys in the house?
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Actually, it's just a general demographic thing the ad algorithms are tuned to. Car related forums mean guys. Guys mean chicks. Guys and chicks mean hooking up. Hooking up equals dating sites. Dating sites use pro model head shots (I wouldn't call them "trashy" unless you're used to mud fence homely) to sucker you in. If you do see something that grabs your "attention" and you fall for it, then you might get the real thing; mud fence homely that could eat an ear of corn through a picket fence and she lives in the next town over.

There are little hard to see buttons on the ads at the top right, one gives "feedback" the other will collapse the ad temporarily. If you backfeed that the ad is not to your liking you'll probably get harbor freight or some other junk site for a little while and the gurlz come back cause dating sites make a lot of money and spend a lot on ads.

On thing that I've noticed now is that ads are popping up between posts, where before they were just banner and bottom. Pretty annoying and distracting so I guess I need to pony up the 40 bucks for the All Star status or just stop using my phone to access the site.

And to answer @scramboleer 's question: If anyone is still so stupid as to use Google to look for porn (or anything else) you'll get more than just "head" shots of women :oops:
(Google tracks your search history and syncs it across all of your devices. May I suggest DuckDuckGo...)
 
scramboleer said:
I’m an All Star so don’t see the ads. @Pete can comment more but the ad space is what pays for the forum.

Also, it's my understanding the content of the ads is based off your personal computer’s browser’s actual search history or a calculation of what the internet thinks you would like to see based off your specific search history. In other words, what you see is based off your own computer and has nothing to do with the forum.

Gotta ask: are there any teenage boys in the house?
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now thats funny.
 
Tralehead said:
Actually, it's just a general demographic thing the ad algorithms are tuned to. Car related forums mean guys. Guys mean chicks. Guys and chicks mean hooking up. Hooking up equals dating sites. Dating sites use pro model head shots (I wouldn't call them "trashy" unless you're used to mud fence homely) to sucker you in. If you do see something that grabs your "attention" and you fall for it, then you might get the real thing; mud fence homely that could eat an ear of corn through a picket fence and she lives in the next town over.

There are little hard to see buttons on the ads at the top right, one gives "feedback" the other will collapse the ad temporarily. If you backfeed that the ad is not to your liking you'll probably get harbor freight or some other junk site for a little while and the gurlz come back cause dating sites make a lot of money and spend a lot on ads.

On thing that I've noticed now is that ads are popping up between posts, where before they were just banner and bottom. Pretty annoying and distracting so I guess I need to pony up the 40 bucks for the All Star status or just stop using my phone to access the site.

And to answer @scramboleer 's question: If anyone is still so stupid as to use Google to look for porn (or anything else) you'll get more than just "head" shots of women :oops:
(Google tracks your search history and syncs it across all of your devices. May I suggest DuckDuckGo...)
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Bob, absolutely on the ads between posts.
Microsoft is constantly changing the ways they monitor our behavior and such.

I can't remember which forum I was on recently, but if I exceeded 4-spaces between attached photos, to give them some separation, the algorithm's placed ad's between the photos. go figure.
When over on the jeep-forum.com website, the ads cause a long refresh time of waiting.
Especially worse for us in the country in a geographic black-hole.

What I have been innundated with lately is "Temu" ads, an I've never visited Temu. Thank you Microsoft. :)
 
Greaser007 said:
What I have been innundated with lately is "Temu" ads, an I've never visited Temu. Thank you Microsoft.
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Yeah, Temu... as if you or any of us needs another place to buy more junk! Ever seen a hearse with a U-Haul attached? At our ages we need to be getting rid of crap instead of collecting it. (cause the day after we're gone, it's all going to the junkyard!)
I'll give some of the credit to MS, but it's more search engines like Google who not only get paid to advertise but to track your searches and sell that info to third parties. This is truly the new world order: you, reduced to a commodity :p
 
Tralehead said:
Yeah, Temu... as if you or any of us needs another place to buy more junk! Ever seen a hearse with a U-Haul attached? At our ages we need to be getting rid of crap instead of collecting it. (cause the day after we're gone, it's all going to the junkyard!)
I'll give some of the credit to MS, but it's more search engines like Google who not only get paid to advertise but to track your searches and sell that info to third parties. This is truly the new world order: you, reduced to a commodity :p
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As they say, if the website is free, then you (the user) are the product.
 
I use Ad-Block Plus and see no ads or pop-ups on OWF or any other sites. The ABP icon shows 7 ads blocked on this page.
It's free to download.
That said, the ads help Pete to maintain OWF that we all enjoy. I occasionally make a donation to help out a bit. Might be a way to say thanks, even a little bit goes a long way if enough contribute. Thanks,,,,,
 
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