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MNHQ are you really advertising pole dancing?

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StealthPolarBear · 01/07/2013 10:13

Adverts for stag do parties in Budapest with the image of a woman's leg in a high heel next to a pole?
I didn't click on it so it may be something completely different but I know what it looked like! I couldn't believe my eyes.

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StealthPolarBear · 01/07/2013 10:25

But I take your point. Was just Shock

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reggiebean · 01/07/2013 10:25

If you click on the adchoices logo on the ad itself, it should take you to a page where you can opt out of cookie-based ads and just see generic ones.

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StealthPolarBear · 01/07/2013 10:25

I've got:

Liverpool Hen Weekend
www.stagsandwags.co.uk
Build your perfect Weekend with the Liverpool Based Party Experts

Lovely! But it was much bigger, flashier and higher up than that.

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StealthPolarBear · 01/07/2013 10:24

Right. I know the sort of thing you mean, I've got "pole dancing classes-Surrey" or something, but this was a big picture one, like the B&Q one/Aviva one under the "Mumsnet Talk" box

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ImTooHecsyForYourParty · 01/07/2013 10:23

sorry. point of that was that I am not sure how much they can control what ad pops up.

I have tried on my site to stop certain things and they still seem to seep through.

ImTooHecsyForYourParty · 01/07/2013 10:22

heehee I've just posted this and the adchoices ad I now see is ipage 2013 best web host.

ImTooHecsyForYourParty · 01/07/2013 10:21

ok, so not a pop up, then one generated outside mn not a company who has paid mn to advertise.

I see one on the side now - ad choices. pole dance - windsor

I think it's to do with the text on the page. The ad is chosen not by MN but by ad choices or whatever based on keywords on the text of the page

I have a website and have a google ad thing on it and it works in a similar way. Text on the page itself brings me up a related ad plus if I've been browsing for something else on another tab - for example, prices of boilers - I go to my website and lo and behold - boiler breakdown coverage ad

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StealthPolarBear · 01/07/2013 10:18

this wasn't a popup though, it was in the sidebar, and was on a thread about wedding/stag dos (which seems to be the way with the MN ads, they are very well targeted)

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ImTooHecsyForYourParty · 01/07/2013 10:16

You may have a virus or something.

MN once appeared to be offering me sexy russian babes. (no offence to sexy russian babes but if I'm going to have a wife, I only want one who's going to do at least half the housework)

It was some sort of banner/pop up problem on my own pc.

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StealthPolarBear · 01/07/2013 10:14

Sorry should have made this clear in the title, this is not about pole dance classes, this is about stag dos with naked women.

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