BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!

Subject: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 11:46 AM

I have started seeing adverts for ladies lingerie on Mudcat. There is some modelled by a lady with one leg! What have I done to warrant this? I'm frightened to click into them as I could end up trying to sneak out like Father Ted :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 11:53 AM

They're shown to you because of your browser history.
Where gave you been, Dave? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 12:39 PM

LOL :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 04:05 PM

Yeah I get lots of please give money to Trump ads

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 04:10 PM

I get those too. I'm not complaining anywhere near as much as I did when I got ads for lascivious Russian/Turkish/Asian/Ukrainian ladies who were all lusting after me...

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: The Sandman
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 04:23 PM

I do not get any at all, i am chuffed

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 04:55 PM

You don't know what you're missing, pal. I have to angle the iPad away from the missus when I scrutinise.

Eh, Dave! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 05:38 PM

Mine are much less interesting - hotels in Tenerife and broad-brimmed hats.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 06:55 PM

I have just one ad at the end of all the messages in a thread, but above the message "reply" box. Much less invasive than it has been in the past.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 07:36 PM

I don't get them on the laptop (AdBlock), so none for me...until I get on the phone (which does NOT have AdBlock.)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 07:47 PM

It troubles me somewhat that I get all this internet stuff for free, but am able if I want to to disable the ads that keep it free (yes, I know that I pay more for the stuff in the ads, etc....), so I've never used ad blockers. I do tend to not invite weird ads as I don't do weird internet stuff, but I suppose that the odd accidental fat-finger click can have, er, unusual stuff raining down on me. I think that has happened to me quite a few times. It doesn't bother me much.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 08:45 PM

My pop-up ad displays are
Yeti water bottles
and Acrobat Adobe.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 10:13 AM

Today the strange adverts are
Semrush
Canva
Squarespace
Vrbo and
US Dept of Veterans' Affairs

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 11:15 AM

I'm getting electric pushbikes, crash helmets for same and lots of ladies' underwear ads, including that lady with just the one leg.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 11:21 AM

Now I'm getting military-style blokes' gear....

I'm going to wish I hadn't said that...

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 12:05 PM

...stand by, Steve, for a choice of camouflage-coloured tandem bicycles - with (waste not want not) only 3 pedals...

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Mr Red
Date: 24 Oct 22 - 03:42 AM

All of the above.

What does that say about my browsing history?

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Oct 22 - 04:04 AM

I got the military style gear this morning!

Funnily enough though, I wouldn't mind a green rifleman's jacket as seen in "Sharpe" but they didn't display one of those.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 24 Oct 22 - 04:44 AM

Be careful what you wish for :-) .

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: BobL
Date: 25 Oct 22 - 03:25 AM

I have 4 networked computers running different operating systems. I use the Windows 7 machine for Mudcat: the text comes up in a comfy size and there are fewer ads.
As I type, there's a single ad at the bottom, plugging "Aesthetic Surgery in Turkey". I'm not quite curious enough to follow it up.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 22 - 11:11 AM

Now the advertisements are
Ashley Furniture
and Dynatrace, whatever that is.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 25 Oct 22 - 12:51 PM

Wikipedia article on Dynatrace, Inc. High buzzword quotient; good luck decrypting the technobabble. But it might give you a clue.

Oh, and give that "Aesthetic Surgery in Turkey" a seriously wide berth. There's an article on BBC's red-button pages about ppl having to have hospital treatment on the NHS on return from cut-price surgery abroad.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 22 - 07:44 AM

I get new gadget invention ads. If I am curious I access them elsewhere otherwise I will get flooded with ads here.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Oct 22 - 05:07 PM

I keep seeing an ad for a revolutionary monocular for £39.99 that's better than the Hubble telescope. Jaysus, I'm tempted.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange adverts on the Cat!
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 01:23 PM

Cats are commerce resistant