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IronSmasher
IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
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Why is there an advert for Pizza Hut at the top of this page?
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  • Vermilla
    Vermilla Posts: 348
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    Somebody told me that it goes by what you search for. I'm guessing so because one of my MFP friends went to the Kalahari recently so I looked it up and now the majority of my ads up there are for the Kalahari when it didn't used to ever be there. If you've searched for nothing, it remains at the diet pills and weight loss ones I believe.
  • firesoforion
    firesoforion Posts: 1,017 Member
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    I get food ads, too, but I figure that's more than compensated for by the massive pictures of toenail fungus that grace other ads (and I can't imagine how that's related to what I search for).
  • PeaceCorpsKat
    PeaceCorpsKat Posts: 335 Member
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    I get a ton of really wierd stuff... but never food.
  • craignev
    craignev Posts: 1,247 Member
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    Mine's showing 'Diet Chef' right now :smile:
  • DataBased
    DataBased Posts: 513 Member
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    Mine is showing Holland America Cruise ads... so I guess you all know what I dream about!

    :love:
  • dinosnopro
    dinosnopro Posts: 2,179 Member
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  • ginamaria724
    ginamaria724 Posts: 133
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    Yeah, most of the time the ads that show up on websites you go to are relevant to what you've searched recently.
  • 1a1a
    1a1a Posts: 761 Member
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    I hang out on a rat forum too and the ads there tend to be for rat poison o_O
  • Brandicaloriecountess
    Brandicaloriecountess Posts: 2,126 Member
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    I have at&t ads right now. I had been getting ads for the Beatles Love, Cirque show in LV.
  • CuteAndCurvy83
    CuteAndCurvy83 Posts: 570 Member
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    I hang out on a rat forum too and the ads there tend to be for rat poison o_O
    could there be another ratty lover out there?
  • _Ben
    _Ben Posts: 1,608 Member
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    Its how ads work. In your cookies they track what you have recently searched, what has been posted on websites you have visited, etc. Seeing as you are on a weightloss and food site, it sees that, then the ad searches its database for a food ad, in hopes that you might buy something from it. I get android phone ads, because I read a lot on android phones
  • lacroyx
    lacroyx Posts: 5,754 Member
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    it's MFP's way of building up your willpower so you can resist the naughty foods. :tongue:
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
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    Its how ads work. In your cookies they track what you have recently searched, what has been posted on websites you have visited, etc. Seeing as you are on a weightloss and food site, it sees that, then the ad searches its database for a food ad, in hopes that you might buy something from it. I get android phone ads, because I read a lot on android phones

    Thanks Ben, but I am only playing.

    For the record, I've not searched for Pizza Hut.

    I know exactly where it is.
  • snowblind50999
    snowblind50999 Posts: 8 Member
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    I use the Chrome browser and run the ad block extension... I see no ads :) I think Firefox has an ad block extension, too.
  • Trinketona
    Trinketona Posts: 190
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    Bank of Ameria and Rival-Us for drug testing.....hhhhhmmmmmmm :indifferent:
  • Amy_nz
    Amy_nz Posts: 145
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    I'm getting some sort of wedding dress/formal gown website.

    I have never ever googled wedding dresses. The last thing that I googled was something like 'how the feck do you kill convolvulus' (it's the herpes of the garden).
  • DieVixen
    DieVixen Posts: 790 Member
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    I have one for clown porn
  • creative1981
    creative1981 Posts: 182 Member
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    Mine is currently for car insurance (I don't drive) and Nivea Q10. But I normally get Weight Watchers and The Biggest Loser web site.
  • Amy_nz
    Amy_nz Posts: 145
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    I have one for clown porn

    I never knew there was such a thing! Knowledge is good and all that, but I'm not sure that I needed that knowledge!

    Clown porn. *Clown* porn.

    The world is a fascinating place.
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
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    I have one for clown porn

    I'm glad I've never heard of that

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