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Adverts...please not this

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 8:33 pm
by Martin Hayman
As a noob to this forum, I see one is encouraged to click on the ads to support it.

Right below that I see the shout-out 'Date a Filipino woman!'

Bit of quality control needed here, I would say.

Re: Adverts...please not this

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:07 pm
by jtaylor
Unfortunately we can’t control the links that get displayed, but the adverts delivered are usually linked to the visitor’s browsing history on other sites, which targets ads at them for similar things ?! (I’m not casting aspersions, but!!)

Seriously though - the adverts bring in literally sub £20 per year....so if we could encourage more donations from visitors (only where they can afford it) that that’s be amazing, and I’d drop the ads altogether.....thus no more dodgy dating ads?! Currently around 4 to 5 people donate max each year....and that’s usually the same people...

J

Re: Adverts...please not this

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:43 pm
by Martin Hayman
jtaylor wrote: Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:07 pm Unfortunately we can’t control the links that get displayed, but the adverts delivered are usually linked to the visitor’s browsing history on other sites, which targets ads at them for similar things ?! (I’m not casting aspersions, but!!)
J
Ha, touché! One brings one's own baggage apparently. Happy to report 32 years' record of marriage with no covert resort to Tinder. Though I do like the Filipina checkout person at my local Sainsbury's, with whom I had a brief discussion lately of piracy in the Zamboanga quasi-autonomous region.

I should have liked to express my gratitude in the 'favourite teacher' thread to the elderly Manual School master who taught me how to set out joinery and run an orderly workshop, a lifelong skill. But it is far away and long ago, and who now will recall his name?

I hear what you say about donations.

MWH

Re: Adverts...please not this

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 8:19 pm
by rockfreak
My rule of thumb is don't click on any ads, or indeed anything you don't actually, vitally, chronically need. On any site. Anywhere. Otherwise your email box will be deluged with Filipino women, Russian brides, penis enlargement, double glazing, Bitcoin, more Russian brides, more penis enlargement, and lots more.