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I tried it a couple years ago with Google and once targeted ads were off, I would get many ads about gay dating sites. Once I turned targeted ads on again, thes

• giancarlostoro 9y ago
  I had a similar experience, but it was single women, and there was no way to ask Google to stop showing me those types of ads. At the very least allow me to block adult advertisements. Maybe it's on purpose...
  • johansch 9y ago
    Maybe no-one ever made that call, and it's all just based on the results of continously running automated and fuzzed A/B experiments.
  • keithpeter 9y ago
    With me it is retirement planning... I am in that age range. I've just taken to either switching javascript off or using one of those hosts files that blocks most stuff.
• PhantomGremlin 9y ago
  Bah. I hate their attempts at targeting, either way. I normally don't see ads (NoScript, JS usually off). But when I do I sometimes see ads targeted at teenage girls (i.e. my kids). If the trackers can't get any info about me personally, they probably just default to analyzing other traffic from my shared IP address.