Who here gets annoyed by this??

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26 Mar 2012, 6:54 pm

Okay, so you're surfing the internet one day (WP, Facebook, Youtube, etc.). You're going off, doing your usual routine, when you browse around your screen and comes across an advertisement for a dating site that has some connection to what you were looking at/what you were talking about with a friend earlier that day. Personally, it bugs me to no end. I mean, I've already come to the resolve that relationships shouldn't be at the forefront of my life currently, so I don't need society to tell me otherwise

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26 Mar 2012, 6:59 pm

It's what sells. I'm not buying it though.

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26 Mar 2012, 7:14 pm

Aharon wrote:

It's what sells. I'm not buying it though.

Well put!

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26 Mar 2012, 7:34 pm

adblock :oops:

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26 Mar 2012, 7:56 pm

Funny you should mention this.

I am a 36 yr-old male reading WrongPlanet. I am a member of a couple of dating sites and I have never indicated any interest in dating married women.

Why the hell do I continually get ad's on Wrong Planet for "Over 50s Dating" and "Married Dating" or "Affair Finder" sites????

I've also had a few ad's for lesbian dating sites, but that's easily explained... :roll:

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27 Mar 2012, 5:31 am

I get annoyed by it too.

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27 Mar 2012, 5:53 am

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27 Mar 2012, 11:24 am

Don't listen to society.

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27 Mar 2012, 11:29 am

Nope, I don't get annoyed by any ads at all because I have AdBlock Plus, as should you

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27 Mar 2012, 11:44 am

The things that bothers me about ads is that they're all location-related which means I even get Belgian product ads on youtube and on wrongplanet.

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27 Mar 2012, 11:45 am

Uprising wrote:

The things that bothers me about ads is that they're all location-related which means I even get Belgian product ads on youtube and on wrongplanet.

Which browser do you use?

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27 Mar 2012, 4:53 pm

Uprising wrote:

The things that bothers me about ads is that they're all location-related which means I even get Belgian product ads on youtube and on wrongplanet.

Regrettably the public IP you show up as gives your general location away a lot of the time.

In general, I have fun by playing it like this: turn ads around a bit, turn them into "practice" for disregarding the distortions of perception which advertisement relies on in order to work.

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27 Mar 2012, 6:08 pm

Asp-Z wrote:

Nope, I don't get annoyed by any ads at all because I have AdBlock Plus, as should you

Adblock has changed my life.

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28 Mar 2012, 11:19 pm

I get a little annoyed that the site is ripping lonely people off. Most of those sites charge money & tmo0st of the sites I see advertised on the net are smaller non mainstream type sites which means that there won't be a huge pool of members to chose from so less favorable odds on finding someone. The dating advertising that annoys me most is the spam email I get over 10x a day about how I can go on a date with a cheating wife

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28 Mar 2012, 11:37 pm

Thats why I use 2 emails nick. Or it just becomes a flood.

Ads don't bother me. The evony ones were funny.

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28 Mar 2012, 11:58 pm

conan wrote:

adblock

That. ^^

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