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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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