Re:Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition
by deanCommie on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @09:16AM
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#1 - why aren't you using AdBlock, or Ghostery, or Privacy Badger. Any of those would block these ads
#2 - Since you are not using the tools above, you are sharing a lot of your browsing data to trackers elsewhere on the web that aggregate the content and present you with what they think you will like. No judgement, but maybe start using incognito mode for your NSFW browsing. I turned off my blockers and none of the ads I was shown were anything like what you describe.
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I think his point was that a news site should have anything remotely NSFW.
Re:Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition
by at-fates-hands on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @09:23AM
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Which is usually based on your browsing habits. You're not just shown random NSFW ads for nothing; which is what deanCommie's point was.
Re:Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition
by madeofpalk on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @09:34AM
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That's not how ad tech works. Just because I visit porn sites doesn't mean I get porn ads served to me on NYT.
Re:Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition
by incongruity on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @09:19AM
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Well, if the previous poster was actually at work, they may well be on a machine that they can't install software or browser extensions on - that's the case with my employer issued laptop, for example.
Re:Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition
by ssharp on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @09:23AM
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I'm a digital marketing manager, so part of my job is buying display ads and seeing what our competitors are doing with display ads.
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.