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Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:42 pm
by Cap'n Cat
Chris, Willie, Jon - whomever, I hereby protest against the multitude of ads at the bottom of the pages for Christian colleges and other Jesus-related dung and ask that you adopt a more fair and balanced line in your advertising choices.

Not everyone on here is a Christian. There are Jews, Muslims and non-believers, too. I find the ads unnecessarily intrusive and a detriment to my enjoyment as a posting member of this site.

Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

Yours,

Cap'n Cat





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Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 3:36 pm
by HI54UNI
I believe the ads are based on cookies from websites you visit. Almost all my ads recently have been for Vegas hotels since we've been planning a trip. Soooo I guess that means we all know what you are doing with your free time......

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 3:40 pm
by clenz
HI54UNI wrote:I believe the ads are based on cookies from websites you visit. Almost all my ads recently have been for Vegas hotels since we've been planning a trip. Soooo I guess that means we all know what you are doing with your free time......
All of mine have been from security software websites and programs due to me redoing my security system on my computer.


I guess the true side of Cap shows...on accident.

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 3:52 pm
by BlueHen86
I thought that the ads were related to the thread topic.

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 4:11 pm
by DJH
Me too, '86.

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 4:58 pm
by clenz
BlueHen86 wrote:I thought that the ads were related to the thread topic.
I did too, until I started seeing a ton of Vipre/Avast/AVG/Norton/etc... Software adds on every topic

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:10 pm
by JayJ79
I never really pay attention to the ads. But I happened to look at the bottom of this page load and it was a bunch of pregnancy-related ads.

dagnabbit, google! I ain't preggo, I'm just fat. sheesh! :lol:

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:11 pm
by grizzaholic
:roll:

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 7:43 pm
by YoUDeeMan
HI54UNI wrote:I believe the ads are based on cookies from websites you visit.
If that were true, Cap'n would be getting a lot of ads for Viagra and Extenze.

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:11 am
by ∞∞∞
Montana tryin' really hard to be part of the CAA:

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:ohno:

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:16 am
by 89Hen
BlueHen86 wrote:I thought that the ads were related to the thread topic.
This is correct. I noticed it a couple months ago. Start a car thread and car loan ads will pop up.

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:46 am
by andy7171
∞∞∞ wrote:Montana tryin' really hard to be part of the CAA:

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:ohno:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:42 am
by Appaholic
Cap'n Cat wrote:Chris, Willie, Jon - whomever, I hereby protest against the multitude of ads at the bottom of the pages for Christian colleges and other Jesus-related dung and ask that you adopt a more fair and balanced line in your advertising choices.

Not everyone on here is a Christian. There are Jews, Muslims and non-believers, too. I find the ads unnecessarily intrusive and a detriment to my enjoyment as a posting member of this site.

Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

Yours,

Cap'n Cat

ps...as a show of my indignation on this topic, I hereby offer to cover all expenses you incur by removing these paying advertisers from your site so I can enjoy. Where do I mail the certified check?
updated for best results......

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:59 am
by GannonFan
BlueHen86 wrote:I thought that the ads were related to the thread topic.
How about that? D1B, Cappy's own brother, is almost solely responsible for all the annoying religious related ads at the bottom of the screen. Seems maybe a phone call would've been easier than a new thread (especially one that further propogates the appearance of even more religious advertising). :coffee:

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:10 pm
by UCABEAR
Here's a hint fellas:


KEYWORDS

Frick...I thought even the most ignorant surfer knew that ads from Google are based on keyword frequency! :rofl: Type the word "catfish" in several threads and you'll probably see ads for "stink-bait" :rofl: OOOOoooooooo-Weeeeee! :rofl:

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:44 pm
by Wedgebuster
I see mostly ads from Vapor Nation and related.

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:08 pm
by Grizo406
Wedgebuster wrote:I see mostly ads from Vapor Nation and related.
Same here!

I also heard that there's a new "strain" of AK-47 goin' around!??!

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:35 pm
by BDKJMU
No body mentioned Pizza yet on this thread and right now there is an ad at the bottom for Papa Johns. So much for this theory that a word that gets mentioned in a particular thread will determine the ad at the bottom of that thread....

Damn, I'm hungry. Think I'll go get me some pizza....

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:41 pm
by clenz
BDKJMU wrote:No body mentioned Pizza yet on this thread and right now there is an ad at the bottom for Papa Johns. So much for this theory that a word that gets mentioned in a particular thread will determine the ad at the bottom of that thread....

Damn, I'm hungry. Think I'll go get me some pizza....
I'm still only seeing Vipre adds with this thread.


I get UNI football gear adds on other threads. Rarely do they related to the topic

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:06 pm
by Cap'n Cat
Fvck all you guys.

:evil:

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:21 pm
by UNHWildCats
HI54UNI wrote:I believe the ads are based on cookies from websites you visit. Almost all my ads recently have been for Vegas hotels since we've been planning a trip. Soooo I guess that means we all know what you are doing with your free time......
hmmm so where are all the naked asian guys on my ads??????

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:23 pm
by UNHWildCats
∞∞∞ wrote:Montana tryin' really hard to be part of the CAA:

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:ohno:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:16 am
by JohnStOnge
Now you've compromised my message board experience. I didn't even realize there were ads at the bottom of the page. Now I'm probably going to look at them.

Re: Cap'n Cat Protests Religious Slant of CS Advertising

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:07 am
by Col Hogan
Ads...what ads???

There is software that blocks all that stuff... :coffee: