I don't usually pay any attention to the advertisements that Google places on my Multiply homepage, but today they caught my attention. There was "Spirituality in Reality", "The Healing God Network", "10 Rules to Cut Belly Fat" (How did they know?), "Soul Discovery" and "Yoga and Reiki Healing". For the most part I am flattered that I have attracted such high minded advertisers into my experience, but there is another part of me that finds Google's use of using key words in my blog to *target* me, for lack of a better word, for any kind of advertisements, distasteful and an invasion of my privacy. I know I'm being naive here and they do this to earn money so that this service that I use can remain free of cost. I also just had a conversation with my son the other day about privacy being an illusion in today's society. So perhaps I'm just conflicted. On one hand I know that its just the way the world is now in our techno-world, but on the other hand a part of me longs for a simpler, more authentic way of life.
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OK, so what is it about me that says I need cheap tickets to the Phillippines?
ReplyDeleteI think the Filipino ad is when they count enough of words like love, like, lease, live. Once alll my ads were for rubber ducks..Honest!
ReplyDeleteHaha..Have a rocking Sinday. =)
Cor I can understand you getting the rubber duck ads! Enjoy your day.
ReplyDeleteMy add all says Take a Vacation in Zion!
ReplyDeleteoh man i got the belly fat one....:(
ReplyDeleteI had noticed this on your blog; the most insensitive were ads for stroke aids when you wrote about Warren's TIA.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has belly fat - but must they point it out to us? Really!
You know, I really never noticed those before now. I guess I am so use to BS being at the side of everyone's page I just blocked them out. I do know there is a code you can put in your CSS page to block these adds on your page, but I don't think it works for your blogs.
ReplyDeleteI understand why they have them, but I'm with Bennet why do they have to be insensitive with them and try to match them to every subject of the blogs.
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ReplyDeleteI looked at my CSS page and this is the last line in my code. I also looked on my blogs to make sure it worked on them too, it does. You can try adding this to yours to see if it takes them off.
My next page change wont have this code on it, I know why they have them and need them, but sometimes we just don't need to see them.
I guess I did noticed the ones about surviving strokes and for cancer survivors and also the ones directed to widows. They should be a little more sensitive on some issues. I suspect if we all wrote about death, we'd get ads for mortuaries and crematoriums. No one built in empathy to the software I guess. So Google if you're watching/listening match this, EMPATHY!
ReplyDeleteThat got you an ad for Mother's Day. Or maybe it was there before. Also an ad for custom layouts. Someday I will do a blog about Google. Or something really gross and see what happens.
ReplyDeleteOh delightful, they did not disappoint me. Now I have adds for writing my will!
ReplyDeleteI didn't see the Mother's Day ones Bennett. I must not have been looking when they were on.
That is weird because the Photod for Mother's Day is up their right now. I wonder if we see different ads.
ReplyDeleteOh, I was referring to my Multiply homepage. I see the Mother's Day stuff now on the Blog page.
ReplyDeleteWe are back to belly fat. Can't win. On your home page there is Einstein, *sigh*.
ReplyDeleteIf any of you are using Firefox, you can use Adblock to block the script that runs these ads, so you never see them. I'll be glad to provide further information.
ReplyDeleteI guess there's something to be said for paying a few dollars for a blog page NOT to have ads. I'd definitely have ads for the belly fat and I'm sure other "applicable" things to me. I hope to see you in a few week's time Cheryl since I'll be out there for all of May practically.
ReplyDeleteAnd now you have ads about ads. lol....
ReplyDeleteRebecca, thanks but right now I'm enjoying seeing what I get based on what I write. Its become a game.
ReplyDeleteAds about ads; you've got to love that Jen.
Dorene we'll definitely have to get together when you're out here. You'll be here during pollen season....bring an inhaler with you.
My ads are for concerts and math software... I think it's funny. I mean, I'd rather get ads for things that I MIGHT be interested in than to get ads for things that I have no interest in at all! You can use it as a roulette type of search engine!
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