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| | | I'm a little concerned about the boxes with "Ads by Goooooogle" that shows in my browser at Brickshelf and other sites. As they make ads with Swedish topics, there seems to be some kind of intelligence behind them(?), targeting the ads in a creepy (...) (19 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: "Ads by Goooooogle" at Brickshelf? —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | | (...) No insidious conspiracy here. Brickshelf show these ads to everyone who hasn't donated to Brickshelf. -Orion (19 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: "Ads by Goooooogle" at Brickshelf? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Mine aren't in Swedish, unless I'm greatly mistaken about what Swedish looks like... :-) Not that I see any conspiracy necessarily, just good use of public info. (19 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "Ads by Goooooogle" at Brickshelf? —David Eaton
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| | | | | | (...) Well, IIRC, Swedish mostly consists of just one word, "bork". Generally repeated in groups of threes. Intonation an interspersed English homophones make up a small percentage of the rest. DaveE (19 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "Ads by Goooooogle" at Brickshelf? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) That's only the cooking sublangauge. The bikini team sublanguage consists mostly of the phrase "go away", followed closely by "you randy losers!" Hope that helps. (19 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "Ads by Goooooogle" at Brickshelf? —Tore Eriksson
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| | | | | | (...) Hooshpi, hooshpi doo dee dee hmm bork, bork, bork! (19 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: "Ads by Goooooogle" at Brickshelf? —David Eaton
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| | | | | (...) At a guess, your browser submits some limited information about you that google's using. What OS you're running, what language you prefer, your IP address, what browser you're using. I also wouldn't be suprised if some browsers out there spat (...) (19 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: "Ads by Goooooogle" at Brickshelf? —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | (...) Hmmmm. Their AdSense pages only seem to mention page content in regards to ad targetting, but it's not very detailed. It's possible it may also have access to HTTP request information, which it may be able to use to target ads too. ROSCO (19 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: "Ads by Goooooogle" at Brickshelf? —Joakim Olsson
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| | | | "Tore Eriksson" <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> wrote in message news:ID5qEn.CDv@lugnet.com... (...) in my (...) topics, (...) ads in (...) my PC (...) Hi Tore.. I think it is the "Language" setting in your browser that tells what ads to show. (...) (19 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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