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Lovely that this site's "sponsored content" ads on the right are completely inappropriate for work and take up a pretty decent chunk on the page. The images ar
by ssharp 11y ago
Lovely that this site's "sponsored content" ads on the right are completely inappropriate for work and take up a pretty decent chunk on the page.
The images are:
1) Woman wearing shirt that exposes most of her breasts.
2) Man kissing a woman's neck while both are in bed. Man appears to be shirtless, woman is in bra.
3) Woman in bikini with her hands holding her breasts up.
4) Woman in cutoff white shirt having breasts sprayed with a hose.
5) Female cheerleader (this one is not so bad).
I'm not sure why any of that belongs on a business article about Apple eyeing a Time Warner acquisition.
- theklub 11y agoInstall Adblock
- kaftoy 11y agoMy company's filtering system blocked the entire website, categorizing it as "phishing".
- TomBombadildoze 11y agobzzzzt Install uBlock.
- wooger 11y agoNo, install uBlock Origin - the one operated by the original developer.
- izacus 11y agoHeh, funny, since I get mostly "Get rich fast" ads with pictures of stacks of Euros with ad number 2) from your description the only one that's the same :) In any case it seems to tell a lot about geolocation targeting.
- ssharp 11y agoI'd normally hold my head in shame and think about what else I've been looking at to trigger these ads, but I know my work browsing is strictly professional :) edit: Just checked on the site on a fresh EC2 Windows instance with no browsing history/cookies and got the same ads.
- craigching 11y ago> no browsing history/cookies and got the same ads. Maybe that's the point ;) With no history, they're using what works best :D
- Sven7 11y agoUntil we find better ways for journalists to pay their rent that's what we are stuck with.
- sheraz 11y agoHahaha. Glad I don't work where you work. Do you think some of those are are just retargeted to you based on your interest? Me thinks so, because I got ads for gyms and cleanmymac. No boobs here. Here is a solution: 1. Install adblock 2. If your employer considers images of everyday things like that to be NSFW, get a new employer. :-)
- ssharp 11y agoI know my work browsing habits are clean! It's less of what my employer considers NSFW and more of what I don't want on my screen at work.
- sheraz 11y agoC'mon -- is it really that big of a deal? Since when did a little skin or innuendo become "unprofessional?"
- pc86 11y agoAre you serious?
- sheraz 11y agoYes, I'm serious.
- nikanj 11y agoWhen the US was populated by puritans from Europe ;)
- sheraz 11y agoNo, I don't think that is it. This hyper-sensitivity happens in Europe as well. It is a generational problem, mostly for the mellenials. They have been brought up in a toxic and rigid culture multiculturalism and political correctness. But I'll stop here before it really spirals down into non-HN territory. :-)
- gotchange 11y agoBTW, these ads might have been served in interest based fashion. It is not always safe to blame publishers for those racy inappropriate ads.
- mpclark 11y agoYes, blame the publisher. Nobody sensible would allow other web properties to inject rubbish like this -- and it could literally be anything -- into their site. If they're going to do it, they should be held to account for it.
- gotchange 11y agoSince this all of a sudden has become a hot topic eclipsing the subject of the article, here's the list of ads served to me from top bottom: 1) Some shirtless dude on the beach probably on an island in Thailand. (PASS) 2) Before/After pics for a weight management program for a woman wearing a sport push up bra and yoga pants. Not seductive at all especially with fat bulging like this (PASS) 3) A racing model wearing a sexy Halloween style police outfit leaning on a fancy sport car. The model looks seductive but I am more interested in the car (FAIL) 4) A portrait pic of fair skinned woman with hazelnut eye color and dark brown hair color that looks like a young Megan Fox. Definitely attractive but absolutely not racy (PASS) 5) Some rich dude along with his butler in a speed boat leaving or entering a yacht through some kind of marine garage. Looks interesting but not risque material (PASS) PS: I use Tor and this session is all about GitHub and HN so that might explain the nature of the ads served to me.
- deanCommie 11y ago#1 - why aren't you using AdBlock, or Ghostery, or Privacy Badger. Any of those would block these ads #2 - Since you are not using the tools above, you are sharing a lot of your browsing data to trackers elsewhere on the web that aggregate the content and present you with what they think you will like. No judgement, but maybe start using incognito mode for your NSFW browsing. I turned off my blockers and none of the ads I was shown were anything like what you describe.
- pc86 11y agoI think his point was that a news site should have anything remotely NSFW.
- at-fates-hands 11y agoWhich is usually based on your browsing habits. You're not just shown random NSFW ads for nothing; which is what deanCommie's point was.
- madeofpalk 11y agoThat's not how ad tech works. Just because I visit porn sites doesn't mean I get porn ads served to me on NYT.
- incongruity 11y agoWell, if the previous poster was actually at work, they may well be on a machine that they can't install software or browser extensions on - that's the case with my employer issued laptop, for example.
- ssharp 11y agoI'm a digital marketing manager, so part of my job is buying display ads and seeing what our competitors are doing with display ads. Also see my reply to another comment that I opened the ir.net site in a brand new virtual machine with no history and got the same ads.
- jlgaddis 11y agoAfter seeing your comment, I opened the article again, scrolled down, and didn't see anything like you were talking about. Then I remembered that I have uBlock Origin installed. It sounds like you might want to consider a similar ad-blocking extension.