In "The Passion of the .... EASTER BUNNY??!!!, Google runs the following ad:
Easter Apparel & Gifts Personalized Free for You High Quality & Fast Shipping
Easter Holiday Gifts Free Shipping. Gift Baskets, Candy Chocolate Strawberries, and more.
Just in case you need supplies for your Easter pageant, I guess..
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
In this very thread:
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Pah! I have no urge to volunteer for you, Google Spies! No matter how efficient you may be!
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Now they are offering me smileys! How dare they!
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
You think an ad for smilies says something about the thread that it's in? *innocent smile*
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
On a more serious note, this is really disturbing me. Why does our world revolve so much around consuming things and advertising? I hate it. I want to go live in the woods. I want people to stop making my roadsides ugly with billboards, to stop putting price tags on everything. GO AWAY you stupid crass materialists! Why do I have to now pay out the wazoo for just peace and quiet in my own mind?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I'll bet that if you were willing to spend the money to support this forum, you could arrange to get the ads removed. Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Cool! It's offering me chocolate strawberries!
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
Oh, yeah, well Monkey heads and Big Guns!
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
I totally understand why the ads are there, and they really aren't that bad. I'm just bummed that they have become necessary. And I really don't like the idea of spyware that tries to focus in on your previous patterns so that it's more likely to make a sale. That's just creepy!
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I think chocolate strawberries are what get offered when there's no hope of the thread going anywhere.
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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
It doesn't bother me that a program reads what I write in a public forum. GMail, which reads your private email -- that I find creepy.
Posted by The Digital Man (Member # 6427) on :
In this particular instance it's not nearly so intrusive as spyware... it just looks at the words you input (in the search engine) and then decides what ad is something you'd be most interested in. I don't *know* that's what's happening here, but it *is* what happens at Google. It doesn't keep track of personal patterns, but merely says "people who type *this* are most likely to want to see *that*," and pulls ads out accordingly.
Posted by AeroB1033 (Member # 6375) on :
I don't find either this or GMail particularly creepy, as long as live people aren't opening up my mail and reading it. Heck, even then I don't suppose I'd be all that bothered by it. *shrug*
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