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I think this is prudent, but I’d have nuked Get Rich Quick and Politics, too. Nothing ruins my day like opening up a good parsh post on the crapper and seeing Ted Cruz barfing out lies in an ad or whatever. Political ads down here (including programmatic ads) got really gross and deeply transphobic last year, and I don’t think they’re brand safe.
I’m a subscriber so I don’t see the ads/don’t have a dog in this fight, but oh how I loathe how modern advertising works.
I clicked on something so now you’re gonna spam me over it? Cool I just wont buy it out of spite now.
Get rich quick ads are allowed? Cool, hope nobody here loses their ass on a crypto or mineral scam.
Thank you!
After watching the Last Week Tonight episode about sports betting, I’m decidedly against gambling and social casino game ads.
I enjoy gambling when I’m on vacation. To me gambling should require two things to be done:
those seem like valid exclusions, personally I am surprised that “Drugs…” and “Get rich quick” aren’t also added to the block list.
I don’t think blocking sex ads on this site is a matter of morals, it’s just that we’re not here to think/talk/obsess about sex. If the discussion devolves into silly sex-related humor that’s one thing, but I think I speak for us all when I say we’re not here to have you folks or the advertisers scratch that particular itch.
And some of us peruse the Autopian during lunch at actual open office with women…so NSFW, not good.
This 100%. You open the floodgates to some interesting ads that way.
Yeeeeeeeah, that. I open this on a work computer to catch up on headlines. I am not offended by dildoes in the slightest, but I don’t want them showing up in ads on my work laptop.
Prudent. Any of those categories could be appropriate to discuss or present in the way you want to present them, but web ads usually represent the most crass version of any topic, and seeing them on a website doesn’t reflect well on it imo.
It’s ok to have some basic morals and ethics guiding your ad choices. Semi-curated ads are another reason why I’m happier paying for a subscription than getting spammed to death for “free” content.
The other nice then about no sex and gambling ads is I’m not worried about a displayed ad dictating whether or not I can take a couple of minutes to check on the latest in auto news while I’m at work.
Been thinking about this since I read it the other day, and why enabling ads referencing sex didn’t sit right with me, despite being very much not a prude, and here’s what I came up with:
The problem with ads about sex isn’t the sex, it’s the ads.
Ads are a necessary evil, but they’re also pretty universally scummy. Scummy is fine in a bunch of other parts of life – scummy salespeople are annoying, but we’re used to it, scummy games are not fun, but oh well. Scummy sex, though – that’s just icky. At best, that’s creepy, at worst, it’s a lawsuit.
So, no sex ads, not because I’ve got a problem with sex, but because I’ve got a problem with ads, and I don’t need things I’ve got a problem with trying to push me into sex.
People are so mad by ads. It’s fine. I appreciate that the ads on this site are a lot less pervasive than other sites. I also got double served an ad for Oreos which I’m not mad about at all.
The ads that you currently run still mean it’s acceptable to read at work. But if you start littering my articles with dildos I might have to limit my reading to only when the boss isn’t around.
First of all,would this create a greater number of ads,or just a few more in the shuffle? I don’t want more,but if we get to see some more different ones I wouldn’t mind references to sex or gambling really. I am married,so I don’t do either one though.
Don’t hate me. I run an ad blocker and it works splendidly. I didn’t know you had ads. “Footloose” is why I love Jimmy Pesto Jr. on “Bob’s Burgers.” I’m so upset, I gotta dance!
DANCING IS MY PASSION DAD!
I seem to be getting vintage eurorack modules and prefabricated steel buildings most of the time.
Oh and ads that look like they are about drugs for some sort of chronic disease but turn out to be some Microsoft cloud product.
Side effects may include potlucks, I think?
You get one bride once, and then webpages are filled with bride ads. I’m like dood, I just got one