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Author Topic: Google Ads can be scary.  (Read 6177 times)

Arathanar

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Google Ads can be scary.
« on: July 20, 2009, 10:53:58 am »
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This was on the DF wiki.

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Zangi

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Re: Google Ads can be scary.
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2009, 11:34:47 am »
Ad-Block, get. 

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Re: Google Ads can be scary.
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2009, 03:24:16 pm »
Really? I got "Sponsor a Child" and "Volunteers Abroad Wanted" when I checked the wiki just now. Apparently Big Brother thinks I'm a better person than I actually am.
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« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2009, 03:48:44 pm »
i got free web analytics wizard and dwarf hamster secrets.
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Quote from: blah28722 on August 02, 2009, 09:59:32 am
A creature the size of europe can occupy only one tile.

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« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2009, 04:07:11 pm »
Dwarf...hamster...secrets?
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« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2009, 04:16:31 pm »
odd all i get is diet plans for a man of 13 stone tops
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Agree, plus that's about the LAST thing *I* want to see from this kind of game - author spending valuable development time on useless graphics.

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Re: Google Ads can be scary.
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2009, 04:22:09 pm »
All I've been getting for the last few weeks is Evony ads.

I exagerate, but seriously, those damn banner ads are bloody everywhere.  Stupid increasing sexualisation...
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Re: Google Ads can be scary.
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2009, 04:25:38 pm »
Those Civony/Evony ads are just plain insulting.  I mean, honestly...


Anyways, just hopped over to the wiki to see what all the hubbub was about, and got these two gems:

"dwarf"
All About Dwarf Dwarf and much More!

"Dwarf Palm Trees"
Hardy Dwarf Palms of All Sizes.  Fast Delivery.


I would indeed like to know more about Dwarf Dwarf, but I'd also like to know how big a Dwarf Palm can get.
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« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2009, 04:39:37 pm »
You might be interested in this article about the Evony ads.  Contains... the adverts, some of which are of a sexual nature.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html
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« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2009, 04:42:18 pm »
I was getting lots of advertisements for CO2 M1911 Air pistols.
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« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2009, 04:49:10 pm »
It seems to depend of the particular page of the wiki for me. On the undead page
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« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2009, 04:51:25 pm »
Yeah, those Evony adds are borderline insulting. Especially the horizontal ones where they rotate the girl 90 degrees so that they can still fit her cleavage in the banner.
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« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2009, 04:53:31 pm »
the worst part is they're EVERYWHERE. im starting to miss those "shoot the ducks to win" ads now.
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Quote from: blah28722 on August 02, 2009, 09:59:32 am
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« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2009, 04:56:46 pm »
I got some kind of sex offender list.
What's scary is that I'm getting spam based on stuff I'm emailing. I think Gmail is selling my email info to spam sites.

Oh, and yes, the Evony ads are far more annoying. If I knew it was a Civ style game, I would've tried it, but the lame ads make it look like something for perverts. And I really hate ads with sound effects; I stopped visiting whatever site they were on.
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« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2009, 05:00:28 pm »
i hate sound ads as well. im browsing a site minding my own buisness and all of a sudden "CONGRATULATIONS. YOU HAVE WON A FREE NINTENDO WII."
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Quote from: blah28722 on August 02, 2009, 09:59:32 am
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