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Does anyone else find the no win no fee spinal injury ad in very bad taste? Surely its not just me that thinks its a bit much!! Does no one have any control over these ads?
 
I think that it is some program behind which adverts different HHO:ers sees, that is partly adjusted to where your computer/internet access are located (because about half of "my" adverts is in Swedish and I just presume that HHO:ers in i.e. UK doesn't see those), perhaps sometimes also adjusted to what you've looked at on the internet (for example, someone had suggested using a tool box for storing horse grooming equipment, I followed a 'I recommend this tool box'-link to a Do It Yourself store in UK, ended up doing some window shopping and for the next week/weeks, that Do It Yourself store dominated "my" adverts), but maybe that is just a coincidence, mostly the adverts seems to be completely random or somehow related to horses and/or dogs.

Anyhow, my point is that I don't think it is a human that sit and decide which adverts that should be shown, without some sort of a program, thereby I presume that it isn't that easy for HHO's Forum Admin Team (FAT) to remove an advert/stop it from being shown again. But if you think that the advert is really too distasteful (by the way, I haven't seen the advert that you're talking about), you could always try and tell that to HHO Admin in the Feedback, Suggestions and Queries board.

Or you can either try to put blinders on and ignore the advert, or you can try following one of my links, browse around doing a little window shopping, before leaving the tab open for as long as possible/perhaps also open it again tomorrow, and hopefully it will soon replace your current advert at the top of your page, Don't remember if this was the recommended tool box, but it is similar and from that Do It Yourself store were I ended up browsing their Garden stuff and leaving the tab open... or I've also followed a link to this company that sells horse equipment, browsed around until I ended up on this dog agility page, which I then opened again the next day.... But as mentioned, maybe what has happened to me is just a coincidence, or if you're unlucky, it will replace the advert at the side of your screen and you will still have the distasteful advert at the top.

So maybe my bright idea isn't so bright...
 
FinnishLapphund said:
I think that it is some program behind which adverts different HHO:ers sees, that is partly adjusted to where your computer/internet access are located (because about half of "my" adverts is in Swedish and I just presume that HHO:ers in i.e. UK doesn't see those), perhaps sometimes also adjusted to what you've looked at on the internet (for example, someone had suggested using a tool box for storing horse grooming equipment, I followed a 'I recommend this tool box'-link to a Do It Yourself store in UK, ended up doing some window shopping and for the next week/weeks, that Do It Yourself store dominated "my" adverts), but maybe that is just a coincidence, mostly the adverts seems to be completely random or somehow related to horses and/or dogs.
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Ditto this - ads usually relate back to recent searches you've done, or location you're accessing from. As an example, on my screen it's flicking between fly masks (as I've just been mooching through them), and something in German... because I'm on a German server. Lord knows what it says. :D
 
I complained to h&h & tfc about one of the adverts. They weren't interested, said it was nothing to do with them & to complain to the company that posts them. I thought it wrong to be advertising a cult leaders biography, but see they have agreed to do so again. Apparently money is more important than ethics to h&h.:(
 
MissChaos said:
Not as such.

The ads we're talking about run off AdChoices. FinnishLapphund is along the right lines but see http://bit.ly/10uUzIU for how it actually works.
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I followed the link and then opened "Ads Preferences Manager", apparently, based on what internet sites I prefer to visit and which YouTube videos I've watched, Google is guessing that I'm a woman between 55 and 64 years old. So judging by today, they think that women on HHO between 55 and 64 years old are interested in:
Naming a new horse-TV channel.
Dressage saddles.
Baroque horse tack.
Free razors and shaving cream for men ( :confused: :eek: :confused: ).
7-days boat cruise in Stockholm.
Faster broadband/internet access.
Automatic manure and bedding sifter.
Finding a new job.
Finding new love at a Swedish dating site.

Is there anyone on HHO that could tell me if Google are correct? Is that what will interest me when I get that age? :confused:

I wonder how long it takes for Google to notice which YouTube videos I've watched? Because yesterday I for example watched:
[youtube]ZKLWelSFAKo[/youtube]

[youtube]dduqmMaQUfo[/youtube]

[youtube]FavUpD_IjVY[/youtube]

I also began watching
[youtube]hGlyFc79BUE[/youtube]

But I gave up after a while and watched this for a while
[youtube]OWFBqiUgspg[/youtube]

But I couldn't listen to that for 10 hourse either. Anyhow, I now wonder if that will make Google change their opinion about my age ? Obviously Google haven't added something to their program that checks if I have registered my age at any of the web sites that I often visit, because then they would know that at the end of April I will become 39 years old.

Thank you for the interesting link MissChaos.

:)
 
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