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Pssh, I see porn ads on this website all the time!

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My wife's comeback, when she's bought something that she shouldn't is, "they were practically giving them away." Yeah sure.

I'm the tightwad in the family. I sprang for some Josh Groban tickets this week for our anniversary and it's the 1st (and I hope the last) that I ever pay $400 for a pair of concert tickets, but there's a story there. When he came through Utah the last time she had gotten tickets and she broke her knee cap at a Elder Holland devotional at BYU two weeks before and couldn't go. I had to take one of my adult daughters. I've never heard the end of that one, and if I'm going to go, I don't want to be where I'm watching the video board to see who the actual performer is.


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All my ads are for reading the Book of Mormon, so Google (or the divine) is trying to tell me something


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Ads?
This site has ads?


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snoscythe wrote: Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:36 pm
ABYUFAN wrote: Wed Mar 21, 2018 3:27 pm In the last two days I've had ads for motorcycles and Toyota 4Runners. I only have so much will power. If I go out and blow 50 grand because of this website I'm gonna be very very mad (OK actually I'll be stoked but my wife will be mad)
You can do what I did with my last purchase like that. Let her know what a great deal it was, and then inform her that "oh-by-the-way, honey, you now have an unlimited budget at Victoria's Secret!"

Let me know if it works for you.

Totally did not work for me. :munch:
Sneaky, trying to get two presents for yourself!


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Just for fun I turned off adblocker, Which I use for many reasons. Living on satellite internet in the boonies and having limited GBs per month being one of those. The last 2 ads have been for "get a job with a tech company", and "make your website happen". ha ha. Zero interest in either and makes me wonder where it came up with those suggested ads.

A while ago, I was following Ukraine news pretty closely. After a while I noticed that ads were about mail order brides from East Europe. I never pulled the trigger though.

I don't think the Victoria Secret shopping offer would have went over well if I had...


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BroncoBot wrote: Wed Mar 21, 2018 9:40 pm I don't think the Victoria Secret shopping offer would have went over well if I had...
My wife would be thinking I was joking if I did that. :P

I've been watching now more attentively what has been appearing. I'm getting a lot of PayPal, TaxAct, memory foam beds, Discover card, and resort/hotel offers. I hate it when I do a search and then get on FaceBook. I search a coin or picture or word and immediately I have adds related to those items. I really don't like anything that is studying my life. It feels like that movie, Minority Report, where when you walked in a mall, your eyes were scanned and ads related to what you have bought in the past show up. I don't know why that bugs me so, but it feels like someone looking over your shoulder as you're reading a book and very annoying. I think I just want to be more invisible in life and not the subject of some search algorithm.


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I also just want to thank everyone for paying the bills to keep the lights on at CougarCorner.


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hawkwing wrote: Thu Mar 22, 2018 4:14 pm I also just want to thank everyone for paying the bills to keep the lights on at CougarCorner.
I assume that you get more revenue when the ads are clicked on - so I click on one of them about 2 or three times a week just to make you some more money - If I'm wrong in that assumption let me know and I'll definitely stop doing that


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ABYUFAN wrote: Thu Mar 22, 2018 4:31 pm
hawkwing wrote: Thu Mar 22, 2018 4:14 pm I also just want to thank everyone for paying the bills to keep the lights on at CougarCorner.
I assume that you get more revenue when the ads are clicked on - so I click on one of them about 2 or three times a week just to make you some more money - If I'm wrong in that assumption let me know and I'll definitely stop doing that
Ad revenues are great for clicked on items. Especially if they are actually of interest to you.


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