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On-line Advertising Standards

10/20/08 · 10:59 am :: posted by Opinionator     

On-line Advertising Standards

Has anyone noticed the strange ads that show up on the  web sites you'd least suspect, like the Wall Street Journal, Drudge, New York Times, Huffington Post, Salon and CNN? One ad making the rounds lately show a close-up of a goofy looking woman saying something like, "Dreaming of a bigger penis?  Try Vimax pills." Or "Surprise her with a bigger penis." I know that former presidential candidate Bob Dole represented Depends and fought erectile dysfunction, but I don't remember him being conspicuous in the mainstream media. It's kind of embarrassing to run into pop-ups about that stuff on all my favorite web sites.

Is this some kind of joke?  How do we complain about that kind of nonsense?  If anyone knows how, give a shout on this blog. It's tastelessness beyond belief.  Does not obsession with a better orgasm represent  a contradiction when supported by journalism which focuses on world and national policies and problems. Maybe I am just an old fuddy-duddy, changed by blood pressure pills and aging. I have found that the older I get the more chaste I become.

 

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10/20/08 @ 1:30 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
The Mainstream Media outlets you listed Whored us into the current war and in Drudge's case the Lewinski scandal which you may recall with nostalgic enjoyment. Their target audience is precisely men in late middle-age who sublimate their libido via rooting for their team, politically speaking-ahem -Often by blogging! Get hip to yourself, O-man! If Cialis can't raise your bloodflow, Rush will.
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10/20/08 @ 1:37 pm
Buzz [Member] writes:
Ned,

Good point Ned, I think those "whores" in the media are sending us a subliminal message. Longer lasting errections = don't pull out early... of the war that is. Those bastards.
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10/20/08 @ 1:44 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
To quote the brilliant Hoosier sage Dan Quayle, 'Standing Firm'. It is surmised that Don Rumsfeld famously stood at his desk while working to demonstrate his sustained erections. Now of course he's returned home to Mount Misery.
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10/20/08 @ 1:53 pm
Buzz [Member] writes:
Misery...hmmmm, that must be the dog. I know the wife is Joyce...oh well, whatever gets you through the night.
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10/20/08 @ 2:09 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld owns a vacation home named Mount Misery, an infamous 19th century manor where unruly slaves were sent to be broken by owner Edward Covey. The most famous of these slaves was a rebellious, teenage Frederick Douglass, who describes his brutal and formative experience there in his 1855 book, My Bondage and My Freedom. Writes Douglass, "I shall never be able to narrate the mental experience through which it was my lot to pass during my stay at Covey's. I was completely wrecked, changed, and bewildered; goaded almost to madness at one time, and at another reconciling myself to my wretched condition." http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/293201_amy22.html "Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist, began life as a slave on Maryland's Eastern Shore. When his owner had trouble with the young, unruly slave, Douglass was sent to Edward Covey, a notorious "slave breaker." Covey's plantation, where physical and psychological torture were standard, was called Mount Misery. Douglass eventually fought back, escaped to the North and went on to change the world'
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10/20/08 @ 2:54 pm
Solon [Member] writes:
Ned, Ned, Ned, you never fail to politicize everything! Now it's erect penises and the war in Iraq. Erect penises and Sarah Palin I can understand, but Rumsfeld, Iraq????
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10/20/08 @ 3:58 pm
Andy Buckley [Member] writes:
Typically the ads you see online have less to do with the site you are reading them on than the algorithms used to predict what ads the visitor might find relevant.

The site itself generally does not pick the specific ads -- Google and Yahoo or whatever ad company that they embed with chooses for them.

It can be based on the content of the page itself and/or the browsing histories of the site visitors.

The fault, then, lies as much in ourselves as in our stars.
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10/20/08 @ 4:20 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
Solon, dontcha remember when they were calling him 'Rumstud'? Wonder if he's had a non-pharmacologically-induced stiffie since getting canned. By the way Cheney also built a mansion in '06 on the old Covey estate. With his ticker, he's probably not allowed to take Viagra. 'Happiness is a Warm Gun'-the White Album.
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10/20/08 @ 4:23 pm
Opinionator [Member] writes:
Andy: Are you saying that I bring this on myself by the sites I visit and the demographic I inhabit?
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10/20/08 @ 7:12 pm
Monponsett [Member] writes:
Stacey won't give me all the details until I'm 18, but she says there was a very painful period when she and the Colonel first became intimate. I guess that the gods were good to the Colonel.
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10/21/08 @ 8:48 am
Andy Buckley [Member] writes:
Opinionator: Well, we could really give you the benefit of the doubt and say that your IP address is the cause. The site's ads can tell where you are, and maybe that's enough of a demographic tip-off (no pun intended). Then there's the 50-50 chance you're male, so viagra is a safe bet as a targeted ad.

Of course, my hometown is even worse, competing with Orleans as the oldest in the state. When Sofie was still a baby, I observed that the CVS in Chatham had had a much larger section for diapers for people over 65 than those under 12 months.

And, for some reason, they never stocked them next to each other...
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10/21/08 @ 10:52 am
Bob W. [Member] writes:
Advertising standards have gone out the window. And it all boils down to money.

The web is a revenue-driven entity now.

I assume that you're not having any problem with your own 'pop-up'-- and you don't need these advertised products. So, how do you get rid of the pop-ups on your favorite web sites? You'll find the tools in your browser section. Just add the web site to the pop-up blocking list -- and voila! No more 'quicker dicker upper' pop-ups.
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