Black Friday tab - needs serious re-evaluation

[kusanar314]

So, I'm guessing that someone coded that in with "rabbit" as a code word.. but yeah...

There is no safe search and minors really shouldn't be on that tab... Not the most fun discovery at work...

 

[Preitler]

Could it be that are personalised ads, Google extrapolating the data it has about your computer? I don't see anything inapropriate, but I don't use Google, almost all it's background "services" blocked - have a scriptblocker running to not have it track everything I do on every website. I don't see many ads on the internet .

 

[kusanar314]

Could it be that are personalised ads, Google extrapolating the data it has about your computer? I don't see anything inapropriate, but I don't use Google, almost all it's background "services" blocked - have a scriptblocker running to not have it track everything I do on every website. I don't see many ads on the internet .

A) this is my work computer, so no... it wouldn't be pulling anything like that from search history or anything like that.

B) Amazon doesn't just show you that stuff, you have to specifically search for it, so somehow the coding turned off Amazon's built in safety's.

It's giving me a different selection each time I look, and only once has it been inappropriate, but that's more than should be allowed on a site that allows kids.

 

[Preitler]

I do wonder what on an ad site you have to click was obviously worse than all the stuff children "find" on the internet anyway...

I always get the same items. There is some algorithmus behind it that relies on scripts and cookies if you get different each time. It's not about search history, that 's so outdated. It can be stuff that got displayed on your screen a bit longer than others, sites you visited, even stuff you or someone else talked about close to your phone, they are pretty good at guessing which computer is you are using. Just logging in on the same site, email etc. is enough. All that for just selling more cheap crap...

 

[Alaska Satin]

So, I'm guessing that someone coded that in with "rabbit" as a code word.. but yeah...

There is no safe search and minors really shouldn't be on that tab... Not the most fun discovery at work...

Yeah, I about gagged when it came up on my screen. I've seen it twice now. I suspect it has to do with having the words "rabbit ears" in the ad.

I communicated with the RT moderators and they quickly responded that they'll look into fixing it.

 

[kusanar314]

I do wonder what on an ad site you have to click was obviously worse than all the stuff children "find" on the internet anyway...

I always get the same items. There is some algorithmus behind it that relies on scripts and cookies if you get different each time. It's not about search history, that 's so outdated. It can be stuff that got displayed on your screen a bit longer than others, sites you visited, even stuff you or someone else talked about close to your phone, they are pretty good at guessing which computer is you are using. Just logging in on the same site, email etc. is enough. All that for just selling more cheap crap...

Let's just say it was an entirely different type of "rabbit" and comes in pink... requires batteries... And there were at least 2, I didn't scroll lower than those.

I'm mostly getting the same items now with just a little variation. Only weird that doesn't make sense now is goat hoof trimmers. So maybe someone fixed the code.

Still odd that a forum that doesn't sell things suddenly has a tab to sell things off of Amazon...

 

[kusanar314]

Yeah, I about gagged when it came up on my screen. I've seen it twice now. I suspect it has to do with having the words "rabbit ears" in the ad.

I communicated with the RT moderators and they quickly responded that they'll look into fixing it.

Not glad you also got it.. but at the same time glad it's not just me... and that it wasn't one of the 12 year old kids on here that found it.

 

[Mckatie]

I do wonder what on an ad site you have to click was obviously worse than all the stuff children "find" on the internet anyway...

I always get the same items. There is some algorithmus behind it that relies on scripts and cookies if you get different each time. It's not about search history, that 's so outdated. It can be stuff that got displayed on your screen a bit longer than others, sites you visited, even stuff you or someone else talked about close to your phone, they are pretty good at guessing which computer is you are using. Just logging in on the same site, email etc. is enough. All that for just selling more cheap crap...

I switched my house answering machine to Spanish. Within 24 hours my ads on Google switched to Spanish as well. I generally use Duckduckgo because it blocks very well.

 

[Robochelle]

I switched my house answering machine to Spanish. Within 24 hours my ads on Google switched to Spanish as well. I generally use Duckduckgo because it blocks very well.

Although that is suspicious, it may still be coincidence; I am not multilingual, but since last year I do get occasional french and less frequently some Spanish ads. I have never searched in those languages, visited a website in those languages, nothing. No reason for the languages to start appearing for me; doesn't bother me, makes it easier to ignore the ad.