The Questionable Ads on this site

[Falcon Ranchero]

Been noticing lately some very odd ads on this site; not when I visit this forum on the computer as I have an ad blocker but on the iPad I don’t and some ads are questionable; such as this one that depicted a cartoon butt with a soap bar between it that was about bad shower habits that are not good for us, plus all the ads for hot women clothing ( don’t mind those ones as much ?) but also some suspicious ads for “unsold trucks and SUV’s for dirt cheap” depicting a recent model Tacoma with a 1500 tag across the windshield. Not saying I have problem with the ads just some of the photo content catches you off guard. Anyone else notice this?

[RW033]

I use Duck Duck Go on all my devices - no ads and no trackers:

[1930fordpickup]

Most ads are from what ever your computer has been looking at. If you like the ladies just look up victoria secrets before you browse on here. If you want to see cars browse a car site for pics 

That works most of the time. 

[Can-Con]

Yup. the ads are put up by an algorithm that tracks what sited you've visited [or someone else using your machine] , like Andy said above.

I think I can explain why the female clothes ads though, I don't think the algorithm can distinguish between "models' such as we build and female human "models' so we get ads for both. ?

And the vehicle ads would be because ,, well what to we build and post pics of on here?? ?

 

One day a couple months ago I was joking with my wife about heating hash brown patties in the toaster but we could if we had a toaster oven. Next day I got a bunch of ads on here for toaster ovens. Never searched for them on any device bit I guess my phone picked up on it.?

Edited September 28, 2024 by Can-Con