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Yo, These "Girls X Battle" Ads Gotta Go
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Dash_Riprock
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Hey, at least its not Evony.
Edit: Okay, now that I see the pictures clearer on my phone, WTF!?
Edit: Okay, now that I see the pictures clearer on my phone, WTF!?
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
me right now
How About No
Member
Ok THAT'S a bit bad
Oh god I didn't even notice the things in the second image omg
Oh god I didn't even notice the things in the second image omg
Dog Problems
Banned
Noticed the one in the OP earlier this week. Disgusting.
The hell they are. I don't look at cars, either. I don't look for insurance. I don't need servers and I haven't tried building my own website.
At any rate, who knows what tags are used for this game?
I don't own a Nissan but I keep getting ads for one, and I don't know what I'm getting insurance portfolio ads for either. Also getting random shit like this ad.
How About No
Member
Yeah but some of us come to GAF to get a break from that stuff
Yeah, yeah, sure.
I do occasionally get ads for Amazon based on my search results but most of the ads I see on NeoGaf have nothing to do with my browsing history.
For the record, these are the only ads of this nature I have seen on here. There was another Girls X Battle ad running the other day that was just an animated gif of close ups on an anime girl's bits but it seems they rotate them.
The joke I was waiting for!
It would be great if this was actually true, but it's not really how it actually works. Some ads will be targeted to you and based on your browsing history, yeah, but very, very far from all of them.
OniBarubary
Banned
Yeah, this is fucking unacceptable. They won't even take my credit card.
Dog Problems
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The only things I ever look at on my phone are GAF, World of Warcraft stuff, and the occasional Wikipedia entry. I get all sorts of weird ads while on GAF. My favorite one is (I think) about insurance and has this really creepy old woman doing some odd movement.
I get the impression that GAF itself counts as a trigger for these since it's about gaming and a lot of anime so...
How About No
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I'm partial for the fujoshi "chubby chasers" manga I got a couple times
Rudimental
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Ya, I hate browsing Gaf on my phone at work and then an ad with this shit in the middle of it shows up once I hit the bottom of a page
And it only ever comes up when I'm on my office's network, never anywhere else.
I've tried reporting it each time I've seen it come up but it doesn't seem to do anything.
And it only ever comes up when I'm on my office's network, never anywhere else.
I've tried reporting it each time I've seen it come up but it doesn't seem to do anything.
Chuck Norris
Banned
Those ads are using behavioural targeting
What has OP been looking at?
What has OP been looking at?
No, they don't. At most they seem to read city's that you've been to and try to target ads that way, but other than that about 99% of ads I get are for things that don't apply to me or align anywhere near my interests.
Stabby McSter
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oh great now that i clicked this thread i'm probably gonna get these ads
THANKS A LOT OP
THANKS A LOT OP
Mine has the oddest fucking shit:
A "getting rid of wrinkles" with a woman using the creepiest fucking facial mask ever.
"This person learned how to speak english in 24 hours" with a random woman using some sort of weird R2D2 hat. I got several of these kind, it's always a woman that learned a language in a extremely fast time, and picture of a woman with some sort of weird contraption or hat in their heads.
I really find that targeted advertising is completely terrible and unreliable, at least for me. The one time they got something right, it was something I had already bought. I bought a phone on banggood, and then proceeded to have ads on GAF for like 3 weeks to buy the same exact phone on the same exact store.
Oh yeah, this happens a lot. You can probably get the same ad the OP is getting just by entering a thread where someone said the words "anime" or "moe".
How does targeted advertising even work? If I'm an advertiser I'm going to tic every tag on form to get the most exposure. I remember back in the day how people would insert keywords into html for search engines to ping. Any keywords, especially "porn" and "penis."
Well, advertisers usually pay for a certain number of clicks. So the idea is that you should make sure that the people who are more likely to be really interested in the product are the ones getting the ad and clicking on it.
Ban Puncher
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Whatever keeps the lights on.
Honestly, even with the circle it isn't the worst browser game ad I've seen.
NoblesseOblige
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Even if they are these particular ads shouldn't follow a person here.
Every time we talk about ads people say this, but what's being talked about in the thread seems to be a stronger correlation in my experience. Pizza hut ads in the restaurant thread, "find out who's texting!!!!" ads in the wikileaks online database thread, and so on.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I didn't see that until I read this post. Wow. lol
My current ad displays Swiss Chalet and I haven't eaten there in 13 years.
Chuck Norris
Banned
These ads will be paid by the impression (basically the ad loading on the page)
You're right about targeting. GAF ads are on the Google Ad Exchange from what I've seen so basically anyone to opts into that ad exchange is eligible to show ads here
When targeting comes into it you can pay for third party data which defines people based on their interests, generally information comprised by the types of sites visited. I'm sure somewhere a data company has you in a segment has "anime fan", "video game fan" etc
Or they could just target the Neogaf domain to show ads here knowing that the amount of Anime fans is relativey high
The location stuff is pretty simple and really just a very very uncreative way of making the ad look targeted to the user
Stitch
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https://youtu.be/w2efDFdw0_A
Interesting music
Interesting music
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