What sucks about My Fitness Pal!

whiteberry17
whiteberry17 Posts: 124
in Chit-Chat
When your writing a post on being healthy and clean eating, and then you look and see a side ad for pizza.
Im just like:




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  • MinMin97
    MinMin97 Posts: 2,674 Member
    A. What's clean eating.
    B. is this limited to MFP?
  • whiteberry17
    whiteberry17 Posts: 124
    No, just how I find it ironic that junk food ads are often on MFP.
    And second, clean eating is eating all good nutritous foods
  • VBnotbitter
    VBnotbitter Posts: 820 Member
    You know the ads are linked to your browsing history right? If you been on pizza company websites you will get their ads. Presumably if you look up a lot of porn you'll get their ads as well but I wouldn't know :laugh:
  • MinMin97
    MinMin97 Posts: 2,674 Member
    You had not noticed those ads in other places?
    And, clean-eating is just an open-ended term.
    Many people think their diet is good/clean. And have very different diets one from another.
  • sexymuffintop
    sexymuffintop Posts: 636
    The labeling of food as clean/dirty sucks. That is all.
  • RebekahR84
    RebekahR84 Posts: 794 Member
    I think clean eating is eating food as close to its natural state as possible. I've tried the Clean program by Dr. Alejandro Junger. It felt pretty nice, but definitely not a way I could eat for ever, not with my lifestyle.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    No, just how I find it ironic that junk food ads are often on MFP.
    And second, clean eating is eating all good nutritous foods

    Pizza is nutritious. And good.
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    Pizza is nutritious. And good.
    ^^^ QFT!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,364 Member
    Your browsing history dictates the adverts, not MFP. Evidently you look at pizza.
  • composite
    composite Posts: 138 Member
    Adblock+
  • _meesh_
    _meesh_ Posts: 73
    I was really confused, wondering what ads the OP was talking about. Then I realized I have an adblocker so I don't see any ads. Now I know why there's a big white space to the right of my screen.
  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
    Your browsing history dictates the adverts...

    That isn't completely true. A large portion of the time, the ads relate to topic being discussed. Other times they are for completely random things.
  • PJ64
    PJ64 Posts: 866 Member
    There's no "like" button, which means my lazy *kitten* has to type compliments:laugh:
  • Fit4_Life
    Fit4_Life Posts: 828 Member
    Can't "multi-select" on computer, but you can on your phone. :grumble:
    Can't read the Community Forums on your phone, but you can on your computer. :grumble:
    No history (other than the graph) of how much weight you lost within certain dates. :grumble:
    When making comments, the curser doesn't automatically go in the box. (Just being my lazy self..I want the curser in the box as soon as I click "Comment"..) :grumble:
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    There's no "like" button, which means my lazy *kitten* has to type compliments:laugh:

    It's a fitness site.
  • chubby_checkers
    chubby_checkers Posts: 2,352 Member
    Your browsing history dictates the adverts...

    That isn't completely true. A large portion of the time, the ads relate to topic being discussed. Other times they are for completely random things.

    I was getting Planned Parenthood ads for a while because I had the word "harlot" in my quote on my profile. MFP has my back.


    ETA: Adblock is awesome.
  • pippywillow
    pippywillow Posts: 253 Member
    I get a lot of ads for the Spartan races (probably cause I've been looking into doing one). The ads are a good reminder.

    Of course now that I'm typing this there's an ad for kitkats :laugh:
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    I get all kind of ads that have NOTHING to do with my search history. For instance, right now I have 1 ad about shopping for cars, and one that I think is about travel. I haven't done any searches on either of those things for many months. I get ads about schools and student loans, which I haven't searched for EVER, and ads for McDonald's and various fast foods, which I have also never searched. So...yeah, not so much.
  • pippywillow
    pippywillow Posts: 253 Member
    Can't "multi-select" on computer, but you can on your phone. :grumble:
    Can't read the Community Forums on your phone, but you can on your computer. :grumble:
    No history (other than the graph) of how much weight you lost within certain dates. :grumble:
    When making comments, the curser doesn't automatically go in the box. (Just being my lazy self..I want the curser in the box as soon as I click "Comment"..) :grumble:

    If I remember right you can go to weigh in and then click on "edit previous entries" and it will show a list of your past weigh-ins.
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    pizza is delicious and i want some.
  • McGruber03
    McGruber03 Posts: 113 Member
    Apparently, my work blocks ads. I don't see any. The only think I would like to see different is with logging your running. There is no choice for 10.5 or 11 minute mile. For some reason, you can choose a 10 minute mile and an 11.5 minute mile. I'm consistently a 10.5 or 11 minute miler, both of which I can't choose. Why MFP? WHY??????
  • Faye_Anderson
    Faye_Anderson Posts: 1,495 Member
    Can't "multi-select" on computer, but you can on your phone. :grumble:
    Can't read the Community Forums on your phone, but you can on your computer. :grumble:
    No history (other than the graph) of how much weight you lost within certain dates. :grumble:
    When making comments, the curser doesn't automatically go in the box. (Just being my lazy self..I want the curser in the box as soon as I click "Comment"..) :grumble:

    1 If you mean food items then you can click the boxes down the side of items and choose add checked.
    2 Depends on your phone, I can on my Galaxy s4, I use the Opera app.
    3 Go to weigh in and edit previous entries, every weigh in is there
    4 Don't be lazy :wink:
  • BrainyBurro
    BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
    The labeling of food as clean/dirty sucks. That is all.

    ^ this.
  • DocMarr
    DocMarr Posts: 132 Member
    I tend to use my phone for most of my interaction with MFP but I can't access the forums or profiles from my iphone.

    Also, if someone has customised their diary, I only get the first 4 groups of food entries under 'Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, no matter how they've listed them. So if they have food entries under further groups, I can't see them in their diary.

    I also get annoyed at the constant syncing issues between fitbit and MFP.

    But other than that I love it! I'm now on my 668th consecutive day :-)
  • cricketcricket
    cricketcricket Posts: 16
    I strongly suggest downloading an adblocker :) . If you're using Firefox, just get Adblock Plus. Works for me. I see people complaining about ads on Facebook, or OKCupid, or MFP or whatever, and it always surprises me because I literally never see those ads. I'm sure there are similar options for Chrome and IE, I'm just not sure what they are.

    Check it out! :D
  • sanndandi
    sanndandi Posts: 300 Member
    use an ad blocker?
  • lisaabenjamin
    lisaabenjamin Posts: 665 Member
    Apparently, my work blocks ads. I don't see any. The only think I would like to see different is with logging your running. There is no choice for 10.5 or 11 minute mile. For some reason, you can choose a 10 minute mile and an 11.5 minute mile. I'm consistently a 10.5 or 11 minute miler, both of which I can't choose. Why MFP? WHY??????

    McGruber - you can add your own exercises! I have a whole list of running speeds added to my exercises. Go to the Exercise tab, select 'My Exercises' and then click 'Create Exercise'. Enter the data of your run from your HRM or whatever you use to log, and voila.
  • mattschwartz01
    mattschwartz01 Posts: 566 Member
    The labeling of food as clean/dirty sucks. That is all.

    ^^This! You're either eating nutritiously or not.
  • GTAFrank
    GTAFrank Posts: 730 Member
    Three words ---> CHROME AD BLOCKER

    /thread
  • peacefulsong
    peacefulsong Posts: 223 Member
    I don't get any ads, because I have an ad blocker. :)

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