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Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo
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lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Date: 
Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:51:36 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Larry Pieniazek writes:
On your porno ads thing... wow. I never get any porno banner ads. I'm
jealous. :-) What part of Yahoo do you hang out on? :-)

s/do you/did you/  Front page, search engine, "my" portal with stock price
views and news.  Oh, and I read their Reuters feed a lot.  Yer typical "male
aged 18-59" stuff.

The ads were for Playboy and Maxim, FWIW.  Porn by my definition.  I have
never done business with them, never gave Yahoo any indication that I desired
to, and asked (for family issues) *several times* for Yahoo to have these
particular ads removed from my ad-targeting-profile-thingy.  (Yahoo refused.)

[...snipped context...] and
we need to be inclusive in this, we need ONE ring that everyone is in [...]

The ONE ring to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them, eh?  I think we
all know who THAT might be...  ;-)

4 - I follow a few links to ads that I don't find objectionable on purpose so
that the system might think that those are the ads I want to see.

If this strategy really works, and I end up validating some of Yahoo's ad
revenue just to keep bad elements off my screen, then I'd argue that their ad-
profile algorithms are extortionist by nature.

Cheers,
- jsproat



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  Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo
 
(...) The latter. It certainly would be neat to have LUGNET do and be everything possibly (1) LEGO related. But I fear for dilution of focus and for Todd's sanity (2). However he's said that: a) he wants to do this b) he doesn't see it as a huge (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)

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