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Scientology and a lingerie firm - funny/pretty to see here, but are they hitting their target market????

I thought they worked from cookies on your pc - mine seems to (Gumtree)...

....lingerie?

I've got History.co.uk, Lloyds TSBoffshore and a Spanish guitarist...

By "banner" we're talking about the Google Ads at the top of the page. These are generated according to your location, based on your IP address. Sometimes it wanders a bit geographically but the content is generally relevant.

Mine is on target most of the time. Right now it's Music Lessons from a good friend of mine in Town (Milton), plus several ads for guitars and luthiers. That's the good news. The bad news is that many of the ads are for American vendors from as far away as Chicago!

But there is also another set of "Related Items" that appears sporadically at the bottom left of the page. These are totally random it seems, and often includes porn links. I don't know where that's originating from, but I could live without it.

My number one ad is for a local music shop that specializes in pianos. I decided to see what else they had and, lo and behold, one of the six or so used guitars is an X275 Pantera! Price is a tad high, though.

It is for a non-OEM guitar, I agree...

Barry wrote:But there is also another set of "Related Items" that appears sporadically at the bottom left of the page. These are totally random it seems, and often includes porn links. I don't know where that's originating from, but I could live without it.

Hmmm,, I don't seem to get those, Barry... whereabouts exactly are they?

Ahhhhh that's interesting, I emailed the scientologists ages ago to have a go at them but I must've deleted cookies on my laptop at least 20 times since then so I wonder where they have come from?

corsair wrote:...Hmmm,, I don't seem to get those, Barry... whereabouts exactly are they?

Very strange.
For some strange reason, this forum allows you to link directly to a post notification without first Logging In! That's convenient I suppose but unless you log in that post will display as "new" when you do log in, even if it has already been read.

So here's what's happening:

If I log in first, then attend to the posts, there is nothing shown:


But, if I enter the forum in "browse mode" (i.e, not logged in) I see this:


If this has not been purposely installed by a an Admin/Mod then I'm assuming that it has been placed there by a SpamBot of some sort?

Ahhh... no!! I certainly didn't put it there and I doubt David did either!! Can we bin it?

corsair wrote:Ahhh... no!! I certainly didn't put it there and I doubt David did either!! Can we bin it?

I have always seen that set of links when I lurked here before joining. I assumed it to be a feature of the hosting software.

No about this "bin it" lingo..... are you saying use "the old Spanish archer"??

yeah... can we get rid of it?

Just click on 'similar topics' at the bottom left, they disappear.

Westbone wrote:Just click on 'similar topics' at the bottom left, they disappear.

Damian, that just closes the list for the current session. It does nothing to remove either it, or the plugin that is displaying them in the first place. It'll just reappear next time.

John, have a look at your Administrator panel for a possible section on "plugins" or something similar. You might find that it has been added there and can be removed.

Hello I'm the selfproclaimed chairman of the welcome comitee I just wanna say... welcome.
Free bandwith for everybody, welcome. (4 those who served)

lol

Barry wrote:

corsair wrote:...Hmmm,, I don't seem to get those, Barry... whereabouts exactly are they?

Very strange.
For some strange reason, this forum allows you to link directly to a post notification without first Logging In! That's convenient I suppose but unless you log in that post will display as "new" when you do log in, even if it has already been read.

So here's what's happening:

If I log in first, then attend to the posts, there is nothing shown:


But, if I enter the forum in "browse mode" (i.e, not logged in) I see this:


If this has not been purposely installed by a an Admin/Mod then I'm assuming that it has been placed there by a SpamBot of some sort?

So no one commented on the "I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF VIA WEBCAM" thing? Pretty dang weird, boys... get some help!

The Chad wrote:So no one commented on the "I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF VIA WEBCAM" thing? Pretty dang weird, boys... get some help!

Who? Us?! Or the spammers??

Just saying how absurd that is! What a weird list that generated somehow. The spammers are an insane bunch, yet don't they base those upon what the person is looking at? But I know that sometimes they don't, because I'd gotten some strange, unrelated, out of the blue ads before. Ads that were in no way related to what I was looking up.

Hi All,

These are not spam (although they sure are rubbish).

The forum is provided for free by a forum-hosting company. In return for them providing a free forum, they put adverts on the pages. You'll see more if you are not logged in than when you are, but either way that is how they pay for the service.

Also, the adverts are just automatically generated from keywords in the forum posts, which is why you get some pretty random adverts at the bottom of the page - the banner ones are "normally" music related, but not always. If you really care you can learn more here: Adchoices

Long ago I wanted to transfer the forum onto one of my servers, but there is no way to export all the users and comments from this one, and I was never brave enough to suggest that everybody re-writes everything on a new forum!

That is all.

N

chaypup wrote:Scientology and a lingerie firm - funny/pretty to see here, but are they hitting their target market????

How can we not be sure??

Thanks, Neil!! Nice to see ya!!

Attention SPAM Police squad, you may stand down now...as you were.
Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.

Cheers Neil.