Also see my reply to another comment that I opened the ir.net site in a brand new virtual machine with no history and got the same ads.
1) Some shirtless dude on the beach probably on an island in Thailand. (PASS)
2) Before/After pics for a weight management program for a woman wearing a sport push up bra and yoga pants. Not seductive at all especially with fat bulging like this (PASS)
3) A racing model wearing a sexy Halloween style police outfit leaning on a fancy sport car. The model looks seductive but I am more interested in the car (FAIL)
4) A portrait pic of fair skinned woman with hazelnut eye color and dark brown hair color that looks like a young Megan Fox. Definitely attractive but absolutely not racy (PASS)
5) Some rich dude along with his butler in a speed boat leaving or entering a yacht through some kind of marine garage. Looks interesting but not risque material (PASS)
PS: I use Tor and this session is all about GitHub and HN so that might explain the nature of the ads served to me.
Install uBlock.
In any case it seems to tell a lot about geolocation targeting.
edit: Just checked on the site on a fresh EC2 Windows instance with no browsing history/cookies and got the same ads.
Maybe that's the point ;) With no history, they're using what works best :D
Here is a solution:
1. Install adblock
2. If your employer considers images of everyday things like that to be NSFW, get a new employer. :-)It's less of what my employer considers NSFW and more of what I don't want on my screen at work.
1) Search stack traces on google much? You are probably a developer.
2) Visit buzzfeed, vice.com, or other news sites, even on your lunch or coffee break? Click on certain stories that might skew to a male audience?
3) Have facebook or twitter open? Then you've just handed them the keys to the demographic kingdom.
It is a generational problem, mostly for the mellenials.
They have been brought up in a toxic and rigid culture multiculturalism and political correctness.
But I'll stop here before it really spirals down into non-HN territory. :-)
The images are:
1) Woman wearing shirt that exposes most of her breasts.
2) Man kissing a woman's neck while both are in bed. Man appears to be shirtless, woman is in bra.
3) Woman in bikini with her hands holding her breasts up.
4) Woman in cutoff white shirt having breasts sprayed with a hose.
5) Female cheerleader (this one is not so bad).
I'm not sure why any of that belongs on a business article about Apple eyeing a Time Warner acquisition.