What on earth is ad choices doing here?!

[BIWI]

This appeared in my feed today (a thread in relationships I think).

It's 'ad choices' so supposed to reflect the kind of things that I buy/search.

I don't have a dog and I have absolutely no interest in dogs, and I live in London - so no idea why this should pop up on my phone!

Hi BIWI

How peculiar (and annoying).

Thanks for sending through that screenshot. We'll take a look into what's going on here. While we do that, if you get chance to let us know what phone you are using that might prove useful too.

iPhone 8

I presume you haven't turned off personalised ads at some point?

Or been on a thread about dogs...

I'm getting Polish supermarkets ATM!

How do you turn off personalised ads?

I don't see many ads but that's because mostly I use the desktop site!

... but (as far as I know) I haven't been on any threads about dogs either

@BIWI

How do you turn off personalised ads?

I don't see many ads but that's because mostly I use the desktop site!

... but (as far as I know) I haven't been on any threads about dogs either

We shall speak to our adops team and ask about this!

www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

You can control personalised ads from those in the scheme here^

You can stop Google personalising ads here:

support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en-GB

[quote ItsAllGoingToBeFine]www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

You can control personalised ads from those in the scheme here^

You can stop Google personalising ads here:

support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en-GB[/quote]

Thank you

Aw, DH is getting you a puppy for Christmas!

Blimey I hope not. The cats will go nuts

Hi guys, I've looked into the specific ad and haven't been able to find it. If you see it again, could you send us the URL it links to?

In general, switching off personalised ads will usually give you stranger adverts, so I'm not sure that will help much. We already block many advert categories that are remotely sensitive, and will continue to hunt down any you sent us.

As always, thanks for your feedback!

I have non-personalised ads and just searched up this thread, getting this at the end...

I'm now getting one for Cord Blood Gift Registry.

a) I'm not pregnant
b) I'm no longer capable of getting pregnant!
c) I'm not American so don't want to save $200 on this (God knows how much it must cost ...)

WTAF is going on?!

Wtf are these. Second one is this very thread!

This is weird!
On this thread right now.

I use duckduckgo and no longer get any adverts!

I'm getting ads for blocked Fallopian tubes

Quite graphic isn't it! I miss the ads for washing powder

Sexy!!!

I'm getting Little Life backpacks and content management systems now, huge improvement, did the update fix something?

@TheCbeebiesYellowBlobs - yes! We managed to hunt down and block the majority of the dodgy adverts being seen. Thanks for reporting them, and let us know if anything else surfaces.

I'm still getting them!

Not only is that ad totally irrelevant to me, it's also American, so no idea why ad choices think this is for me!