Spiritual predators (this time, Mormons) advertise on About.com web page for Jews. Folks: please leave other people alone.
http://judaism.about.com/od/chanukah/qt/when09han.htm
http://judaism.about.com/od/chanukah/qt/when09han.htm
I do not see the advertising that you are speaking of and as a Latter-day Saint, I object to you referring to us as spiritual predators.Spiritual predators (this time, Mormons) advertise on About.com web page for Jews. Folks: please leave other people alone.
http://judaism.about.com/od/chanukah/qt/when09han.htm
well from what comes up for me, they must think I need to lose weight (which I do) whiten my teeth (I swear I just got my kit) go back to school as a single mom (I have I have) and shop at Smiths and Macy's ( I avoid them both like the plague).If you keep re-freshing the page you will see ads from LDS, Methodists, and Dyanetics.
I don't think, looking at the source and the keywords associated with the ads in Googles' tracking, that it's deliberate.
The ads are Google ads, tied to keywords. About.com does not do google ad blocking--and honestly even if you do use Google ad blocking for ads, it's not effective.
Mac has to jump through hoops to block vanity press ads, and as soon as she gets one ad blocked, they create a new ad with a different URL.
In short: No, these ads are not targeted or evangelically directed to Jews--which I too would find offensive.
It's just an unfortunate technology hangnail.
well from what comes up for me, they must think I need to lose weight (which I do) whiten my teeth (I swear I just got my kit) go back to school as a single mom (I have I have) and shop at Smiths and Macy's ( I avoid them both like the plague).
I had no idea that Mac had to fight to keep those off the site but then it makes sense.
Awesome, I appreciate the link.I suspect it may have to do with a local cookie in your Web browser.
There's a relatively new (it's a year old) wrinkle in Google ads that will use a Google cookie to customize ads to you personally.
Advertisers can opt out--Mac did. But you, as a user can also opt out to say "don't use my cookie data.' Go here and scroll down to the bit on "Advertising Cookie Opt-out"
It's a constant struggle, and it's one that affects AW's revenue because she won't run certain ads; she's been warned by Google that she's blocking too many sites, in fact.
Besides the fact that it's a coincidence, I think this would say more about the company About.com than the Mormons.Spiritual predators (this time, Mormons) advertise on About.com web page for Jews. Folks: please leave other people alone.
http://judaism.about.com/od/chanukah/qt/when09han.htm
Besides the fact that it's a coincidence, I think this would say more about the company About.com than the Mormons.
I mean, it isn't like the Mormons coerced About.com to display that ad
(if that had been the case. As it is, it's a google thing.) If About.com chose to display that ad deliberately, I think they'd be the disrespectful ones, not the LDS.
Sounds to me like some people are too quick to harshly judge others.