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musicteacher40
musicteacher40 Posts: 91 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I know that MFP depends on ads to help pay for this site, but really McDonalds... I keep seeing "Customer Appreciation Day" adds for buy one, get one for $ 0.25 for Big Macs or Quarter Pounders.... don't they know that this is hard for some people (like me!)....

Does this bother anyone else? or is it just bothering me?
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  • AlexisJ330
    AlexisJ330 Posts: 97 Member
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    The ads come from your search history and not from MFP. So if you goggled mcdonalds or even calories in fast food it might cause the ad to come up. Right now personally, I have an ad for replica star trek uniforms.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
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    The ads come from your search history and not from MFP. So if you goggled mcdonalds or even calories in fast food it might cause the ad to come up. Right now personally, I have an ad for replica star trek uniforms.

    Awesome!

    Yes, like he says. I have Beachbody/ Lee jeans ads right now.
  • suzieduh
    suzieduh Posts: 196 Member
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    I've got Fixodent and shoes. Odd.
  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member
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    I use adblock. No adds were had at all


    But uh, tell me more about this customer appreciate day
  • snookumss
    snookumss Posts: 1,451 Member
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    If you google vaccumns, you'll see vaccumns. If you've looked at vacation packages recently... magically those will be the ads!
  • Cyliesmom
    Cyliesmom Posts: 35 Member
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    I have vega one protein ad, perhaps because I just had one and added it to my food for the day
  • FlaxMilk
    FlaxMilk Posts: 3,452 Member
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    I've got a cartoon woman in a green bikini gripping her belly pudge.
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
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    I have ads for plus sized women's clothing.

    Explain THAT one? At what point did I search for plus sized women's clothing? (Hint: I didn't). I've never even looked up plus sized clothing. Or women's clothing. Yet there on the side is an ad for "Zulily's" advertising clothes for big women.
  • I_Will_Be_The_Swan
    I_Will_Be_The_Swan Posts: 132
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    Calotren(never looked it up) and Life Fitness Superstore(again, never looked it up.)
    Weird.
  • HeyGoRun
    HeyGoRun Posts: 550 Member
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    lol I just get electronic ads on mine, my husband always searching tech stuff. Start searching for health and fitness things and it will change on you
  • poedunk65
    poedunk65 Posts: 1,336 Member
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    Don't have time to weat things like that
  • scuzziemoo
    scuzziemoo Posts: 13 Member
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    I have vodafone coming up
  • rachaelgifford
    rachaelgifford Posts: 320 Member
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    I always get the ads for the gym chain I work for. I can't escape haha!
  • becca6585
    becca6585 Posts: 1 Member
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    I use this and never have to look at them.
    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom?hl=en
  • I_Will_End_You
    I_Will_End_You Posts: 4,397 Member
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    I use Adblock Plus in my browser....so I show ads for absolutely nothing.
  • BeccaBollons
    BeccaBollons Posts: 652 Member
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    Hmmm I have wiltshire farm foods, which do meals on wheels for people confined to their home. Weird. Certainly doesn't apply to me!

    That's a great offer at mcD's though :)
  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
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    I know that MFP depends on ads to help pay for this site, but really McDonalds... I keep seeing "Customer Appreciation Day" adds for buy one, get one for $ 0.25 for Big Macs or Quarter Pounders.... don't they know that this is hard for some people (like me!)....

    Does this bother anyone else? or is it just bothering me?

    Well, I keep seeing ads for bras (I recently searched out how to re-size) and then I started seeing ads for holstic dog foods (also searched ancestral canine diet, as we've recently started a rotation diet high in protein, mod fat low carb for all the pups)....I think the ads you see have to do with the searches you do...yes, it creeps me out....and yes, I sometimes feel nagged by them :laugh: :blushing:
  • em435
    em435 Posts: 210 Member
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    I've not seen an ad on the internet for years now.

    https://adblockplus.org/en/chrome

    It's completely free (although you can donate to the guy who created it)

    You're welcome.
  • 0067808
    0067808 Posts: 119 Member
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    I'm getting 'pay as u gym.com' which would probably be more interesting if I didn't live in Belfast - don't think they have any outlets over here!!

    Wendy, N Ireland

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