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So I turned off my adblocker to give MN a few microquid

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LoloKazolo · 20/06/2015 17:29

And the first ad I saw was this prostrate woman in bondage gear wtaf? Is this a mistake, and is there a way to report it, or is this normal for mumsnet?

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LoloKazolo · 20/06/2015 17:53

Nah, it's fine, Repeat. I mean, I am on a network run by a pentester so there's no malware threat barring me actively pissing off ma'colleagues. Thanks though. Flowers

I was under the impression MN set some content parameters on the ads they displayed but if you're saying not I'm happy to just block all ads here as I don't want to see that kind of content.

First, IDK! I can only conclude my idle googling of "Beauty and Misogyny pdf" (a feminist book mentioned ona thread in Chat) has spawned unhappy fruit!

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FirstOfficerDouglasRichardson · 20/06/2015 17:44

My adverts are mainly furniture, days out, Asos, make up etc...

What have you been googling? Grin

RepeatAdNauseum · 20/06/2015 17:44

I'd still run a malware scan, in that case.

Google effectively "rents" the space from Mumsnet, and then matches it to things that your internet history suggests you'll be interested in. So things you've looked at on websites, similar items, etc. We could get 300 people to all load the same Mumsnet page, with the same rented space, but all see completely different things.

If you haven't looked up anything that Google could be classifying as "in common" with that ad - so something to do with robots, I'd guess, because that's not a human woman - or porn, I'd make sure that there is no malware/spyware/viruses that are using your computer.

PattiODoors · 20/06/2015 17:42

Cripes!

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LoloKazolo · 20/06/2015 17:41

Anyway, adblocker re-engaged!

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LoloKazolo · 20/06/2015 17:39

I don't think so! I mean I just went and looked in my history and it is like

Peter Serafinowicz or Serafinowich
The Foundling Museum
Janice Battersby haircut
data driven web applications google drive spreadsheet backend
Soko Youtube I'll keel er

and then just spreadsheets, like, days and days of spreadsheets. No one else uses this computer or has the password.

It's a car ad now.

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BabyGanoush · 20/06/2015 17:34

Someone in your house has been googling this stuff Grin

I get ads for sandals, sofa's and wine Grin

RepeatAdNauseum · 20/06/2015 17:32

Yeah, those ads are influenced by your search terms - mine are almost always things I've looked at on ASOS.

If there's nothing in your cookies that Google could construe as being sexual, it's probably worth doing a full malware scan.

ExitPursuedByABear · 20/06/2015 17:30

I thought the picture ads like that were things that you had been googling Wink

Leaflitter · 20/06/2015 17:30

Flaming Ada!

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