DU ads are getting weird. I almost miss the toe fungus adverts.

[Baitball Blogger]

I'm a star member so I only see them in the time that I log in. But in the last few days, they went from men's apparel to night vision goggles and just now, full face GAS masks. Not N95. Full face Gas masks.

If I didn't know better, I would say someone is fishing in DU's waters.

[Kaleva]

1. The ads I see correlate to what I've searched for

[Baitball Blogger]

3. I guarantee that I haven't done one search for men's apparel,

night time vision goggles or full face gas masks.

I think the last time something like this happened, someone said that it might just be the way the internet cable is set up, sharing data streams with my neighbors.

[Kaleva]

7. As long as you don't see the ads for giant purple dildoes

That's a DU classic.

I think is was actually an ad for some garden implement but the member thought it was a huge purple dildo.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. LOL! Missed that one.

[Kaleva]

36. That could be.

When I'm at Yahoo mail, I get ads saying there are very hot mature women and grannies who want to meet me. I have no idea why I get those ads.

[betsuni]

10. No, not true for me. I wish it were. Instead I get ads for things I've never ever searched for.

Latest is a weird thing called "Amazing Talker," with pictures of random women with prices. Have no idea what that is.

[Baitball Blogger]

25. These kind of things set alarms on my radar.

Because we know how specific ads are getting based on our searches, it makes no sense when something over the edge turns up.

[kcr]

2. I just logged out and logged back in to see what I would get

I got an ad for apartments on the upper east side of NYC.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I think I got some real estate ads too.

[Kaleva]

4. I logged out for a minute and these are the ads I saw

Tractor Supply

Solar panels

Generators

I've been at the Tractor Supply website and I've looked up solar for chicken coops

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Now, that I can understand.

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. That would explain the ads for asshoes and crudites. nt

[Tetrachloride]

11. DU and or the big advertisers don't appear to give a damn.

…. judging from what is said in the above comments.

[mopinko]

18. du doesnt rly have any control.

they set some key words that they wont allow, and can tag a particular ad that doesnt belong here, and get it taken down. but other than that, nada.

[Tetrachloride]

19. they could turn off the ads. they can talk with the advertising companies

they can host the ads themselves which is to say - be their own advertising company.

Spock said in The Original Series “There are always alternatives.”

[mopinko]

21. the ad company is google.

and you sign a contract w them.
and no, they cant be their own ad agency. there might be another company doing this placement, but launching an ad agency is a heavy lift.

[EarlG]

23. Turn off the ads?

Without ads, I couldn't afford to run DU. It's that simple.

[Baitball Blogger]

26. I'm with you on this one, EarlG.

We understand. There's not much you can do about it.

I just remember when DU was attacked and put down in the 2016 election, so I know bad actors are always watching. If they can find a way to make trouble for us, they will.

I brought this up to bring everyone's attention to it, so they don't follow a link and end up a target for telemarketing.

[EarlG]

29. No worries

I'm sorry the ads aren't always perfectly targeted. Unfortunately I don't think it's an exact science.

I just need to know if something goes wrong and they end up overlaying DU content (because that shouldn't happen of course). To be fair to my ad provider, they are very responsive to any issues that I bring to them, and do their best to fix problems that come up.

[Baitball Blogger]

30. It's all good.

[consider_this]

32. Ads were overlaying...

at least last week. My membership had run out a while ago, so have been getting ads for a while, but recently there is an ad overlay that pops up and covers the middle of the thread listing screen. I paid in again, so all the ads (including that overlay thing) are now gone (YAY!) so do not know if that is still happening, but thought you would like to know.

[EarlG]

34. Thanks

I was made aware of this yesterday and reported it to our ad provider this morning.

[rubbersole]

12. "The algo-rhythm is gonna get cha"

[House of Roberts]

16. Gloria Estefan will haunt you for that one.

[Baitball Blogger]

27. LOL!

[EYESORE 9001]

13. I logged out just to see

Got an ad urging me to ‘ditch the dad wallet’ for some tiny thing, somebody hawking ‘crypto cards,’ and bargains on airfare to Yosemite.

[Historic NY]

14. Strange I get no ads.

the again I rarely log in except after cleaning my cache. Perhaps changing your google setting for ads and the main safety and privacy setting pertaining to your interest or not.

[EarlG]

24. You get no ads because you have a Star Membership

Star Members aren't shown ads when they're logged in, so if you never log out, you won't see them.

[marybourg]

15. I got:

HVAC tune up ( I searched for emergecy A.C. repair a few weeks ago) ,
A law firm ( I looked up a statute) and
A veterinarian (I looked up pet euthanasia in April)

[House of Roberts]

17. The ad people must think I want to start a pot growing operation.

I get a lot of ads for grow lights. Once I clicked on an ad that I thought was for shop lights, but it was a grow light.

I try to click on all the Victoria's Secret ads I can, then I get nice young women modeling underwear.

[JuJuChen]

20. the funny ones are the Republican ads it's like, "Uhhh you know where you are?" lol

[allegorical oracle]

22. A demonic DeSantis Approval Survey follows me everywhere. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

28. Ha! That would give me nightmares.

[Lancero]

31. Disabling adblock gets me a interesting collection.

Toe fungus ads for one, along with... golf clubs, and fiddling for dummies.

And because poor internet, it also means the page took a half minute to finish loading. Yay.

Oh well. Back on goes the ol internet speed booster.

[Rob H.]

33. Recently I've seen ads for hardwood decking and summer cruises

...and I don't have any interest in either. At least they're not as bad as Facebook, which dropped an ad for the latest and greatest autopsy saw(!) into my feed not long ago.