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I recently started a thread called "Kissing People On The Lips" and almost immediately ads popped up on the left side and bottom of the page that had to do with kissing. One was a voluptuous half naked woman and the other was about kissing. It was weird and made me feel slightly paranoid like in "Big Brother Is Watching You". Here's one of the ads:

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Actually, this add flashed and blinked other messages than the one it displays now. Something about big fat gay kisses or something. It's totally nuts.

Could this possibly be a coincidence? I don't think so. I think someone somewhere is monitoring the subject matter of our posts and spamming us with adds and imagery that correspond. I feel like someone is peeking in the window or something. It's creepy.

This happened yesterday in a thread started by a member who was talking about, to put it bluntly, catching a man. Adds popped up about "How to catch and keep him" and "Guides to Dating and Choosing a Mate". It can't be a coincidence can it?

It's simply the way google ads works. They monitor the forum to put the "best add". It's not illigal and the forum is pubblic.

I have often wishes that the ads here on WP weren't so trashy and flashy. Then again, I don't pay the bills.

It's not a coincidence and it's not a spying person. It's a spying bot that continuously searches for keywords and matches them to keywords in ads. The only human involvement is the person who originally wrote the bot program and the person who paid for ad space and gave keywords to be matched. It can be good fun to watch, once you realize there is no actual human but simply a bot, because sometimes the keywords taken out of the context of the post can lead to some comical ad placement.

Thanks Nightsun, Fiddler and Janissy. Your comments make me feel better. I'm really not complaining, just thought it was curious and had no explanation for it so, naturally, me being me, was forced to speculate. Spy bots. Kind of funny actually.

Kind of makes you want to experiment with different words and phrases, just to see what kinds of ads will pop up...

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Quoting Willard

I had forgotten about the ads. One of the first things I did when I joined WP was to get an ad blocker. I just can't tolerate ads, especially the kind that pop up, flash, or move in any way. It's supposed to get your attention, but mostly it just makes me agitated.


Speaking of key words....

A few months ago, I was playing around with the idea of taking lessons to learn a musical instrument (back when my husband got a regular paycheck), and I was considering the guitar. I'm short and er, a bit busty, shall we say. I was concerned that I would not be able to sit and comfortably hold an acoustic guitar, so I wanted to see some pictures of women with my build playing guitars. So I googled some phrase using the words "guitar" and "large bust" or something like that. Man, was I sorry! What was I thinking? Of course I got a zillion pictures of leather-clad bleached-blondes, waif-like except for the fake boobs with xtreme cleavage, pouting and sneering, while holding an electric guitar. And lots and lots of comments from young men. No middle aged, frumpy women properly holding a guitar. I should have known, of course.

@ Elderwanda

So funny. So did you ever learn to play? And did the bust get in the way? Had to go for the rhyme.

This was just at the bottom of my kissing on the lips thread.