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Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 17:28 #72363
Oddjob 131 posts	I take it SimSig have no control over the adverts that appear on the site, given recent events this ad seems inappropriate. Post has attachments. Log in to view them. Log in to reply

Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 17:30 #72364
madaboutrains 316 posts	Have you been searching for holidays to do mountain climbing recently? RIP Feltham Panel 1 Log in to reply

Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 17:32 #72365
Oddjob 131 posts	" said: Have you been searching for holidays to do mountain climbing recently? No I have not Log in to reply

Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 18:03 #72366
Muzer 718 posts	To be honest, I can't see how it's inappropriate. Tourism is presumably an important part of that country's economy, so it's not like when something terrible happens everyone should completely stop advertising trips there... that will surely cause more harm than good in the long term. It'd be like if everyone stopped advertising/selling holidays to London after the tube bombings. Or is it something in the advert itself that I'm missing that you're complaining about? I can't quite make out what that thing is in the top right, so it could be I'm just completely missing something. Log in to reply

Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 18:05 #72368
madaboutrains 316 posts	Normally it follows you internet history or cookies. RIP Feltham Panel 1 Log in to reply

Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 18:49 #72373
Peter Bennet 5402 posts	" said: I take it SimSig have no control over the adverts that appear on the site, given recent events this ad seems inappropriate. I believe there are filters of a sort but I can't see any of them filtering this. " said: To be honest, I can't see how it's inappropriate. Tourism is presumably an important part of that country's economy, so it's not like when something terrible happens everyone should completely stop advertising trips there... that will surely cause more harm than good in the long term. It'd be like if everyone stopped advertising/selling holidays to London after the tube bombings. Trade is better than Aid long term. Peter I identify as half man half biscuit - crumbs! Log in to reply

Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 19:54 #72378
Forest Pines 525 posts	" said: Normally it follows you internet history or cookies. It's slightly more sophisticated some of the time: it tries to work out demographic profiling data based on the sites you look at. That doesn't mean it gets it right, of course. If you click on the blue-on-grey X on the top right corner of the ad, it will know you don't want to see that ad again. If you click on the blue-on-grey icon to the left of the X - it looks a bit like an A on its side - it will take you to a help page where you can complain about the ad or view and edit the profiling data. Mine currently thinks that, based on the websites I visit, I'm at least 20 years older than I actually am! Log in to reply

Advertising on site 17/05/2015 at 20:33 #72382
northroad 872 posts	Being over in Holland I get the adverts in Dutch and have not got the faintest idea what some of them are for...... Log in to reply

Advertising on site 18/05/2015 at 00:25 #72390
GeoffM 6377 posts	" said: I take it SimSig have no control over the adverts that appear on the site Not really: all I can do is block a specific advert (or company) after the event. SimSig Boss Log in to reply

Advertising on site 18/05/2015 at 10:07 #72398
Albert 1315 posts	" said: Being over in Holland I get the adverts in Dutch and have not got the faintest idea what some of them are for...... Living at Utrecht, NL I currently get Dutch adverts for dog food, Ryanair flights to Ireland, international transport by lorry and a "spring sale" of carpets. I'm interested in neither of them. I did fly with Ryanair to Madrid last year and may have looked up flights from NL to Scotland some time ago, but otherwise I see no connection with my browsing history (I don't own a dog, for instance). AJP in games Last edited: 18/05/2015 at 10:09 by Albert Log in to reply

Advertising on site 18/05/2015 at 12:56 #72409
broodje 184 posts	funnyly enough, I only recieve english adverts (also living in Holland). Most of them are from the USA, some for services in the UK. Even though I'm browsing via a dutch provider on a dutch IP. Log in to reply

Advertising on site 18/05/2015 at 15:55 #72416
Cedric 46 posts	Gosh, if we didn't have this to worry about we'd be reduced to discussing the weather! Log in to reply

Advertising on site 18/05/2015 at 17:04 #72423
njimiller 142 posts	It's been quite wet today. Log in to reply

Advertising on site 18/05/2015 at 17:48 #72425
AndyG 1842 posts	" said: It's been quite wet today. You'll get adverts for brollies now :pinch: I can only help one person a day. Today's not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look too good either. Log in to reply

Advertising on site 19/05/2015 at 09:02 #72452
kbarber 1743 posts	" said: Gosh, if we didn't have this to worry about we'd be reduced to discussing the weather! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOD2BoFRmUg Log in to reply