> Honestly I think your 99% figure just suggests you are browsing the wrong websites. Maybe visit parts of the internet that are less sketchy.
This is not true and I'm gonna provide some evidence:
I am a conservative christian[0].
I get those ads as well.
My browsing habits:
- stuff linked from hn
- local news
- one mainstream newspaper
- fringe political papers from the left and right (mostly don't agree with any of them but it makes for interesting reading, a better understanding of why people are mad etc)
- christian podcast
- technical stuff (both related to work and to my technical hobbies)
- repair videos, childrens videos (when they get to borrow one of my devices)
And still I get ads for singles in my area. Extremely stupid ads. E.g.:
- when I'm at work in the middle of nowhere and I get ads with a picture of someone who is supposedly desperately looking for someone like me, supposedly living in the valley next to nowhere where there are nobody except old farmers. That kind of stupid.
For a while I tried to hit that micro x in the corner of those ads and mark them as irrelevant. Only got equally stupid ads for other equally irrelevant sites.
I don't want to remove ad income for honest writers but I've given up now and I'm ad blocking like many others here.
I've also come to the conclusion that tracking doesn't work, it is just a thing they do to scam marketers.
And I've concluded that if I were to place ads for a product I would place them based on the content of the website, -like Google used to do. If anyone wants a proven business opportunity here it is :-]
[0]: No, not embarrased by it, but I do not want to discuss that here, this is a technical forum. Just pointing out I don't visit what I consider sketchy web sites at all.
Yeah, everyone does. Are you suggesting you see almost literally 100 such ads for every ad advertising something legit? Because for me they are the 20% dross for 80% potentially useful ads I see.
Honestly, the businesses in your region of the woods are truly woeful at advertising, and should probably spend more money on it. Realistically, if what you suggest is true, something has probably gone wrong and your demographic has been caught in a bubble where no-one serious is advertising to you. Because those ads should be in the minority.
> Because for me they are the 20% dross for 80% potentially useful ads I see.
Lucky you. For me it seems way below 50% useful.
The closest I get to relevant ads are if I search for something like x hosting, then I'll maybe see ads for that for a while.
Im not against ads:
In fact I'd like if local shops informed online whenever their deal of the week came out (they sometimes do and that is a click from me if for some reason the ad isn't blocked).
Same goes for other interesting ads if I see them, which means max twice a year.
This is not true and I'm gonna provide some evidence:
I am a conservative christian[0].
I get those ads as well.
My browsing habits:
- stuff linked from hn
- local news
- one mainstream newspaper
- fringe political papers from the left and right (mostly don't agree with any of them but it makes for interesting reading, a better understanding of why people are mad etc)
- christian podcast
- technical stuff (both related to work and to my technical hobbies)
- repair videos, childrens videos (when they get to borrow one of my devices)
And still I get ads for singles in my area. Extremely stupid ads. E.g.:
- when I'm at work in the middle of nowhere and I get ads with a picture of someone who is supposedly desperately looking for someone like me, supposedly living in the valley next to nowhere where there are nobody except old farmers. That kind of stupid.
For a while I tried to hit that micro x in the corner of those ads and mark them as irrelevant. Only got equally stupid ads for other equally irrelevant sites.
I don't want to remove ad income for honest writers but I've given up now and I'm ad blocking like many others here.
I've also come to the conclusion that tracking doesn't work, it is just a thing they do to scam marketers.
And I've concluded that if I were to place ads for a product I would place them based on the content of the website, -like Google used to do. If anyone wants a proven business opportunity here it is :-]
[0]: No, not embarrased by it, but I do not want to discuss that here, this is a technical forum. Just pointing out I don't visit what I consider sketchy web sites at all.