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I was working for a bank and an ad slipped through our list of advertisers to be featured on a porn site. A journalist picked up on this and there was 'outrage'
by Gustomaximus 13y ago
I was working for a bank and an ad slipped through our list of advertisers to be featured on a porn site. A journalist picked up on this and there was 'outrage' within and outside the bank. It was amazing seeing how upset people were.
We had to do a massive audit and white list all future ad sites we used. Personally I felt if you choose to be at a porn site why are you offended at a credit card being there? I'd be more embarrassed being caught watching a Sandra Bullock movie...which of course I've never done. I wished the bank put a tongue in cheek press release saying to the journalist 'what were you doing there'. But in the real world we apologise and pretend these sites don't exist.
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoActually a bank advert offering [pseudo-]anonymous CC payment services would fit in the space well - from an advertising perspective - wouldn't it. I say pseudo because I'm [paranoid and] almost certain that even if you pay cash then someone somewhere has your face connected to that transaction and it's only a security service select query and face-recognition pass away from being ID'ed as you.