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Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 17:28 #72363
Oddjob
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130 posts 		I take it SimSig have no control over the adverts that appear on the site, given recent events this ad seems inappropriate.
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Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 17:30 #72364
madaboutrains
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308 posts 		Have you been searching for holidays to do mountain climbing recently?
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Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 17:32 #72365
Oddjob
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130 posts 		" said:
Have you been searching for holidays to do mountain climbing recently?
No I have not
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Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 18:03 #72366
Muzer
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718 posts 		To be honest, I can't see how it's inappropriate. Tourism is presumably an important part of that country's economy, so it's not like when something terrible happens everyone should completely stop advertising trips there... that will surely cause more harm than good in the long term. It'd be like if everyone stopped advertising/selling holidays to London after the tube bombings.

Or is it something in the advert itself that I'm missing that you're complaining about? I can't quite make out what that thing is in the top right, so it could be I'm just completely missing something.
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Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 18:05 #72368
madaboutrains
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308 posts 		Normally it follows you internet history or cookies.
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Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 18:49 #72373
Peter Bennet
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Online 		" said:
I take it SimSig have no control over the adverts that appear on the site, given recent events this ad seems inappropriate.
I believe there are filters of a sort but I can't see any of them filtering this.


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To be honest, I can't see how it's inappropriate. Tourism is presumably an important part of that country's economy, so it's not like when something terrible happens everyone should completely stop advertising trips there... that will surely cause more harm than good in the long term. It'd be like if everyone stopped advertising/selling holidays to London after the tube bombings.
Trade is better than Aid long term.

Peter
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Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 19:54 #72378
Forest Pines
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525 posts 		" said:
Normally it follows you internet history or cookies.
It's slightly more sophisticated some of the time: it tries to work out demographic profiling data based on the sites you look at. That doesn't mean it gets it right, of course.

If you click on the blue-on-grey X on the top right corner of the ad, it will know you don't want to see that ad again. If you click on the blue-on-grey icon to the left of the X - it looks a bit like an A on its side - it will take you to a help page where you can complain about the ad or view and edit the profiling data. Mine currently thinks that, based on the websites I visit, I'm at least 20 years older than I actually am!
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Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 20:33 #72382
northroad
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870 posts 		Being over in Holland I get the adverts in Dutch and have not got the faintest idea what some of them are for......
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Advertising on site 18/05/2015 at 00:25 #72390
GeoffM
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I take it SimSig have no control over the adverts that appear on the site
Not really: all I can do is block a specific advert (or company) after the event.
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Advertising on site 18/05/2015 at 10:07 #72398
Albert
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1313 posts 		" said:
Being over in Holland I get the adverts in Dutch and have not got the faintest idea what some of them are for......

Living at Utrecht, NL I currently get Dutch adverts for dog food, Ryanair flights to Ireland, international transport by lorry and a "spring sale" of carpets. I'm interested in neither of them. I did fly with Ryanair to Madrid last year and may have looked up flights from NL to Scotland some time ago, but otherwise I see no connection with my browsing history (I don't own a dog, for instance).
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Advertising on site 18/05/2015 at 12:56 #72409
broodje
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180 posts 		funnyly enough, I only recieve english adverts (also living in Holland). Most of them are from the USA, some for services in the UK. Even though I'm browsing via a dutch provider on a dutch IP.
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Advertising on site 18/05/2015 at 15:55 #72416
Cedric
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Online 		Gosh, if we didn't have this to worry about we'd be reduced to discussing the weather!
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Advertising on site 18/05/2015 at 17:04 #72423
njimiller
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138 posts 		It's been quite wet today.
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Advertising on site 18/05/2015 at 17:48 #72425
AndyG
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1835 posts 		" said:
It's been quite wet today.
You'll get adverts for brollies now :pinch:
I can only help one person a day. Today's not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look too good either.
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Advertising on site 19/05/2015 at 09:02 #72452
kbarber
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1712 posts 		" said:
Gosh, if we didn't have this to worry about we'd be reduced to discussing the weather!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOD2BoFRmUg
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