Dominoes Pizza Ad on this Site!!

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  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    Ads are related your cache, and not controlled by MFP. For example, was looking up information on banks and right now have a USAA ad starring me in the face.

    That said.....there is nothing wrong with Dominoes pizza, one slice of pepperoni pizza is only like 250 calories. Paired with a nice salad and some fruit for dessert turns into something even a person on a 1200 diet can do.
    I didn't realize the ad gig until just a few months ago (different site than here though). I was like, "Omfg, how do they know I write Pysanky?!" I had to scour the house for a camera to make sure "they" weren't watching. :laugh:

    :laugh: I can imagine that must have been quite spooky lol

    What I really don't get about targeted ads (back from the days before I had ad blocker), is why is it that they kept on putting up ads for religion, creation v evolution debate, philosophy and "the meaning of life" type websites and books, just because I browsed sites for human evolution and palaeoanthropology.... because, ya know.... some of us are just interested in the *science* and purely the science, of human evolution... it's annoying. I wish they'd just directed me to sites about archaeological digs or new discoveries or something else directly related to the actual science.... but no. They assume I'm confused and trying to figure out how I came into existence...
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Yep, the ads are based on your own cache/search history.

    Either get an ad blocker, or exercise some moderation. Nothing wrong with pizza.
  • sunburntgalaxy
    sunburntgalaxy Posts: 455 Member
    Yeah, it is based on your cache, well mostly. Because I do keep getting ads for some hospital in another state (makes no sense because this site is the closest I come to medical information online). But I get White Castle ads all the time (looked it up for the BF), Houlihan's - lots and lots of food related sites (because I am always looking up nutrition information for restaurants before we go to them). So for the most part they make sense. I am actually more disturbed by the Xfinity ads since we just got rid of Xfinity because of how awful they were for us.
  • JoanaMHill
    JoanaMHill Posts: 265 Member
    I'm constantly seeing ads lately for Hannaford having a sale on iced tea, as well as ones for Atkins and one time I read a thread about some random crash diet and voila, ad for it the next day. Although that's only on mobile. On my laptop I use Chrome and AdBlock Plus.
  • gypsy_spirit
    gypsy_spirit Posts: 2,107 Member
    If an advertisement prompts you to want pizza or anything for that matter, you have some more work to do. Food is all around us - every where - the mall, movies, skating rinks, arcades, beaches, magazines, well you get the point.

    Work on controlling the need to overeat. That's the issue, not addiction. It took me 2 years. But I have lost a lot of weight by learning moderation. It can be done. It's not some illusive thing that is not in your cards. I was a binger and could eat a ton of cookies, cakes, etc. That all changed when I decided that no matter how long it took, I was going to retrain my brain to be stronger.

    You can do it too. Once you have that under control - the sky is the limit.

    ETA: I was able to learn to eat one or two pieces of pizza when we had it. I also have one serving of ice cream most days. I watch my calories and meet my macros. It can be done.
  • srslybritt
    srslybritt Posts: 1,618 Member
    If you don't think Domino's fits your fitness plan, don't eat it.

    Also, you can totally eat pizza and lose weight.
  • belleFL
    belleFL Posts: 29 Member
    Why do you assume I was looking up fast foods online? I've been on allrecipes.com looking for healthy recipes to cook for next week. Maybe that did it. I learned something new today. Did not know ads were done that way.
  • belleFL
    belleFL Posts: 29 Member
    good point . . .
  • Deipneus
    Deipneus Posts: 1,854 Member
    Ads are based on your browsing history so maybe stop looking up fast food online?
    Quite a while back a guy was complaining about all the porn ads on this site!:laugh:

    In fairness, it does not just work not just on specific browsing history about on location and demographic information. So the OP is right that fast food specifically may not have been the trigger. But MFP does not choose the ads, that's not how ad exchanges work. I am right now seeing an ad for a local Chevy dealer. I am not in the market for a car or truck and have not been searching for one.
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  • donyellemoniquex3
    donyellemoniquex3 Posts: 2,384 Member
    you clearly don't know how adsense works.
  • Brownsbacker4evr
    Brownsbacker4evr Posts: 365 Member
    Ad Block! Works like a charm. Can't remember the last time i've even seen an ad while surfing the internet lol.
  • JoanaMHill
    JoanaMHill Posts: 265 Member
    Ads are based on your browsing history so maybe stop looking up fast food online?
    Quite a while back a guy was complaining about all the porn ads on this site!:laugh:

    HAHAHA

    I remember that. That thread got real awkward real quick.
  • kaseyr1505
    kaseyr1505 Posts: 624 Member
    My ads are all from Nordstrom, I was looking at dresses earlier. The ads you see are tailored towards you.
  • parkscs
    parkscs Posts: 1,639 Member
    The real question is why don't you use AdBlock...
  • belleFL
    belleFL Posts: 29 Member
    Thank you all for taking the time to respond and educate me. I hope you are all having a fantastic day on track.
  • CamilleJackie350
    CamilleJackie350 Posts: 124
    but who was adblock?
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    This thread almost makes me want to disable my ad blocker...

    ...almost.
  • Cathalain
    Cathalain Posts: 424 Member
    My address is one of the few in America that Domino's DOESN'T deliver to. :angry:

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  • Slacker16
    Slacker16 Posts: 1,184 Member
    It's an ad for pizza not cocaine.
    True story:
    MFP once showed me an ad for pre-measured morphine shots.
  • addicted2cola
    addicted2cola Posts: 43 Member
    I don't get ads on myfitnesspal or any other site. Try AdBlock Plus if you use Firefox. Couldn't tell you what to use for another browser, sorry!

    Also, now I want some pizza. Mmmmm.....
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,304 Member
    Thank you all for taking the time to respond and educate me. I hope you are all having a fantastic day on track.

    Glad you learned something new OP.:flowerforyou:

    and like somebody said, you (or somebody else on your computer) may not have been looking up fast food online - but perhaps something related, like home deliveries for something else, or recipe sites or something seemingly unconnected.

    My computer is showing me ads for World Cup soccer and twitter - I am not on twitter nor do I follow soccer.

    But I do have Google as my home page and the daily Google letters have been about the World Cup for the last week or so - perhaps it is from that.
  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    Is your AdBlock broken?

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