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  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,505 Member

    yes, some people who are retired or shift workers - but seems an interesting marketing pitch when most people wouldn't do that i n the first place.

    Especially not "milennial women" who wouldnt be in retired age group.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member

    I’d get up earlier if I could, but I’d just end prowling the neighborhood in my jammies with the dog and adding yet another workout…..yikes. There’s just no point, sadly.


    A friend sent a YouTube link to the original 1926 animated movie, the very first. It looked intriguing so I settled in to watch, only to be immediately besieged by a VERY LOUD AD FOR STUCK POOP, featuring some stupid women in fluffy bathrobes discussing same, including how it affected their weight

    It was gross, it was obnoxious, it was offensive, and it was disgusting.

    I’m pretty cheesed about it. Does no one at YouTube vet the dang ads before unleashing them on their clients?

    No, wait Don’t even answer that

  • drmwc
    drmwc Posts: 1,140 Member

    My mum typically wakes up at about 10 each day… I'm pretty sure I will once I retire, unless I have an early ropes off. Diving takes precedence over comfort.

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,505 Member

    but the ad said causes weight in millenial women - they are not retired age group.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member
    edited June 2
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    ever since the “stuck poop” adI’m in a horrible cycle of suggestions, most of which are either so shocking or vulgar I can’t even bring myself to mention them. What happened?

    All I did was innocently look at a 99 year old animated movie posted on YouTube?

    I very rarely even look at YouTube. These are coming up as suggestions on recipe sites, Good Housekeeping and the like.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,985 Member

    Loosely and generally speaking, internet advertising is managed by advertising concentrators, so we're interacting with one of the same few big advertising concentrators even as we go to different online sites. The sites sell advertising space to the concentrators, sort of. For sure, most sites aren't contracting directly with companies that want to advertise their products online.

    On top of that, there are outfits usually called brokers who track lots of information about us including things like what we visit or click on, our demographics, guessed locations, and more; then they package and sell that to the companies delivering the advertising so they can target us. The brokers include outfits like Experian, whose overall business portfolio includes credit reporting.

    We're going to see generally the same advertising content repeated from one site to the next, kind of, because of how the underlying business works. Clicking on a ad to check it out will serve us more ads of that type or from that advertiser. Probably visiting a site like MFP will get us more health and fitness content in our ads, including some skeezy stuff like we're seeing here.

    In the mix, there's some contracting between these outfits about what kinds of sites the actual company being advertised is willing to appear on, and what kinds of ads a site is willing to have show up on its site, but it's fairly general categories, comparatively speaking. For example, might not see "adult" products advertised on a family site, or extreme political content on mainstream consumer retail sites who want to sell to everyone across the political spectrum.

  • John772016
    John772016 Posts: 293 Member
    edited June 3
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48636824#Comment_48636824

    Pretty sure 'Stuck Poop' is now your future @springlering62! Better on your internet then yourself!

    I've noticed lately several real 'friends' on Facebook asking me to vote on 'something', generally artistic, paintings, music, etc that they or their friends/family have entered and are trying to win.

    Seriously received 4 of these in the last week, all from millennials & genZ thinking their life goals will be solved (& some GenXer's who have reached out on the other's behalf) basically begging me to vote for them, so they can 'win' some pseudo artistic contest they entered.

    Except, I checked & the 'entries' with the Company actually running this 'contest' & they are collecting a ridiculous amount of information, in their effort of 'securing the vote' (huh?) and ensuring you are who you say you are…. Um, piss off?
    Their only purpose is to collect my information so they can sell it. All of these, in the last weeks, go back to the exact same Company. I know because I checked each of them.

    All of it is crap, regardless of the prize, it's run by a data collection service. That's their purpose explained on their own website!

    But don't worry - *… these sites promise they will keep your name, address, telephone and credit card data completely secure."
    They won't, they're in business to sell you're data so, vote away on these useless contests!! to make some youngling feel good about their pseudo talent? Sigh!

    Is there anyway to inform millennials & genZ and misguided GenXer's they are being data mined so they understand what they are doing is stupid?

  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,216 Member
    edited June 4

    The stuck poop adds are spreading 😳 with video ads too, yuck.

    Some bug's intestines I'm guessing? I wanted to post the picture behind a spoiler but I can't, so I'll do it differently:

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member

    Intestinal purification is so much more …errrr…..palatable in French, right?

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member
    edited June 11

    @John772016

    As if they’d listen to us. My daughter in Europe almost fell for a toll scam, but luckily checked her toll account first.

    She was surprised. It was the first time she’d heard of it over there.

    My other daughter piped up and said my parents had fallen for a couple of fake “need money” calls purporting to be from her. First I’d heard of it. This was a few years ago, before the voice cloning was even a thing. First I’d heard of it. I’m not sure I want to know any more. Moot point. Both have passed. Why stew over it now.

  • John772016
    John772016 Posts: 293 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48647719#Comment_48647719

    I'm sure they wouldn't….but I got to rant about it and at least I felt better after 😂

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member
    edited June 26

    not a crazy marketing ad, but the inevitable result of too much social media “influence”?


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    gotta love the Virgin Mary pouty makeover.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member
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    Say what ?

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member

    nuclear bellies seem to be on trend for spam ads all of a sudden:

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    And just because it’s riotously funny:

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    They obvs needed some of this cream before cutting that military ad:

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member
    edited June 29

    anyone else notice the giant donkey/elf ears on those guys?

    (It’s ok to point and laugh if they’re AI, right?)

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,496 Member

    That last image confuses me…isn't it usually "before-after" in that order? So does this cream change you from the young left image to the old right image?

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member
    edited June 30
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    WT🤬???


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    wow! Their 72” is 30% longer than “other’s 72”! Way to circumvent the laws of physics!

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    Super helpful for those of us with six limbs!

    Mat description: “…boosts bravery”!!!!


    What’s not to like here?!

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,496 Member

    Does she come included, or is she an additional charge?

  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,950 Member
    edited July 1

    ❤️

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member
    edited July 1
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48669379#Comment_48669379

    that’s where the bravery comes in. How’s your pickup lines?

    Unless you mean the midget in the first photo, in which case you can pick her up with one hand.

  • angf0679
    angf0679 Posts: 1,486 Member
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    What's the purpose of holding large rocks in front of them???

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member

    obviously fake ones, too lol.

    This reminds me of a trip we took to a very isolated town in the Caucasus Mountains. We visited a tiny stone church, where the locals plied us with homemade alcohol and bread and then challenged us to the local sport of rock lifting.

    Seriously! This was a real thing

    The man or woman who could lift the heaviest rock was locally revered, and had bragging rights They had a whole collection of stones of various weights BIG ones


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    This was about six months into my weight loss, and about three months into starting weightlifting. I could not budge this mother, much to their amusement.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,985 Member
    edited July 4

    @springlering62 I'm thinking you'd probably be decent at that rock lifting thing, even among the local women, though I wouldn't underestimate the value of experience. Did you try it?

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member

    That’s my wide load visible on the photo. No dice. Didn’t budge.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,496 Member

    Sounds like one of the events at the World's Strongest Man competition. Only those guys do it sober…

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 15,346 Member

    @springlering62 I think your technique has probably improved since then… you should maybe go back there and give them a before and after demonstration! :-)

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,715 Member

    I haven’t hit a good bad ad for a while, but hit a trove of them tonight, on a so-called science website. Enjoy!

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    (his legs don’t look funny at all, right?!)


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    And one just for the sheer horror and potential dangerousness:

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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,496 Member

    I remember buying one of those abdominal crunch belts back in college when they were first created. This was 30 years ago…can't believe they're still around.

  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,854 Member

    😮😮

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