Comments | no_lj_ads: Problems with the home-page

sabbrielle in no_lj_ads

Problems with the home-page

Apr 11, 2008 20:19

I'm a permanent user, and though my homepage is set to my userinfo, occasionally I'll be directed to the main page when I'm logged out for one reason or another, and I see ads. For more on why this is messed up, see "permanent user ( Read more... )

ads and paid accounts, inappropriate ads, ad-targeting, ads and logged-out users

Comments 14

rfunk April 12 2008, 17:47:44 UTC

My guess is that the gender and age settings are tied to the profile, rather than the viewer. That is, if I were to logout and go look, it would still say gender=F&age=19.

Except that when I do, I don't see any ad at all.....

ex_uniquewo April 12 2008, 20:29:18 UTC

No, it wouldn't. They would use your own gender and age as specified on your profile to target the ad at you (in my case, they also used the language of my web browser to determine which ad to show me). Log in, see any profile, log out then go to the homepage. You'll see the ad (if you haven't blocked it or forbidden cookies).

rfunk April 12 2008, 20:43:41 UTC

OK, I missed the part about going to the home page. So yeah, when I did that, I found the URL with the gender and age info matching me. :-(

Glad that (a) I normally never go to the home page, and (b) I normally use AdBlock or equivalent.

clipdude April 14 2008, 06:50:23 UTC

This ad actually pisses me off. The woman in the picture is very skinny, and they're saying she should lose another 25 lbs?

sabbrielle April 14 2008, 16:50:38 UTC

Yeah, really. Ugh.

oconel April 14 2008, 11:21:03 UTC

It shows a different add for me (I'm older than you), but it certainly gets the information from my profile too.