(Light-Hearted) Worst-Targetted Ads on This Forum & Elsewhere

[DelayRepay]

I am currently seeing adverts for "supercars & performance cars" (I don't drive) and ""Hexagon" measuring technology" (I'd prefer to use maths thanks). Also an advert for "Explore the Seas at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard" - I don't live particularly close to Portsmouth, and I don't like water unless I am safely inside a ferry/hovercraft/etc.

I get that one quite a bit, maybe because I've been looking at second hand cars recently. But I am in the market for a normal car, not a supercar!

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Now I'm seeing an ad for temporary dams (for blocking water). The mind boggles as to why!

 

[Techniquest]

Relevant to this thread as to 'why this ad?' right now is one I got for outsourcing my PPC. Apparently it's from a marketing company who offer help in running a successful Pay Per Click (PPC) ad campaign. I can't say I even knew what PPC was before!

 

[dgl]

Had an advert for Shark vacuum cleaners on YouTube, which would be fine if they A, weren't unreliable junk or B wasn't on a video from an American vacuum cleaner technician showing you why they are junk!
Yes I am really going to buy one of your vacuum cleaners after just finding out that they are unreliable junk, even when maintained.

 

[richw]

I’ve just checked into the Novotel Reading centre and I’ve received this advert several times. Not sure how they target, but my profile says I’m a bus driver, and I guess Facebook locations knows where I am. But has failed to notice 200-250 miles is a bit far to commute!

 

[Bald Rick]

Had an advert for Shark vacuum cleaners on YouTube, which would be fine if they A, weren't unreliable junk or B wasn't on a video from an American vacuum cleaner technician showing you why they are junk!
Yes I am really going to buy one of your vacuum cleaners after just finding out that they are unreliable junk, even when maintained.

My Shark is in its 8th year, and has performed flawlessly throughout, despite much user initiated abuse (eg Hoovering up broken plaster, huge amounts of cat hair, and working-at-the-time christmas lights.)

 

[dgl]

My Shark is in its 8th year, and has performed flawlessly throughout, despite much user initiated abuse (eg Hoovering up broken plaster, huge amounts of cat hair, and working-at-the-time christmas lights.)

That's surprising, normally they fail in a few ways, one of the main ones being hair getting caught in the ends if the brushroll which causes friction and then ends up destroying the head, plus their bagless, one of the most pointless innovations to come to vacuum cleaners, dirtier to empty, many filters and cyclones to clog and need cleaning. Our Hetty just gets a new bag when full and a filter brush every so often.

One joke supposedly was with the original Dyson that it might never lose suction but that inefficiencies in bagless design meant that a full bagged vacuum might have lost some suction it had more to start off with and therefore the no loss of suction marketing hid the fact that there was not a lot of suction to lose in the first place.

 

[Snow1964]

This forum is currently offering me OnLogic
Apparently an Industrial computer is what I need in my retirement

 

[Bald Rick]

That's surprising, normally they fail in a few ways, one of the main ones being hair getting caught in the ends if the brushroll which causes friction and then ends up destroying the head, plus their bagless, one of the most pointless innovations to come to vacuum cleaners, dirtier to empty, many filters and cyclones to clog and need cleaning.

With the number of people with long hair in my house, i have to ‘de hair’ the brush about every month or so. It would be no different with any other Give the filters a wash at the same time. Personally I much prefer bagless - go to wheelie bin, open lid, open flap on bagless cylinder, dust drops in, close flap, close bin, takes 10 seconds.

Compared to the Dyson we had before, it’s much better - more powerful, and more reliable (I had to replace several parts of the Dyson over the course of the 12 years we had it)

 

[DelayRepay]

Now I am seeing ads for Build-A-Bear Workshop. This is not somewhere I frequent, not having children (I did take my nephew there once in 2018!) and not a topic I have searched for (apart from possibly checking the opening times once, in 2018!). Perhaps they think my nephew's bear will be worn out by now and are trying to tempt me to get him a replacement?

 

[DustyBin]

I keep seeing ads for “exotic Ukrainian beauties” on Pistonheads when reading the Ukraine war thread. The same happens on some news articles. It all feels slightly inappropriate (no offence Kateryna and Tetyana!).

 

[Peter Sarf]

Now I am seeing ads for Build-A-Bear Workshop. This is not somewhere I frequent, not having children (I did take my nephew there once in 2018!) and not a topic I have searched for (apart from possibly checking the opening times once, in 2018!). Perhaps they think my nephew's bear will be worn out by now and are trying to tempt me to get him a replacement?

Or is it that the algorithm thinks that it is about time the next available child will have reached the appropriate age to be interested.

 

[Pinza-C55]

Indeed. I was surprised to learn some years back that the revenue brought in by these forum ads is more than enough to cover hosting costs, and support some other forum activities/meets too. They are quite innocuous in terms of their placement and scale, though their content can, of course, vary.

As I have a wall of adblockers and javascript censors on my browser, in the pastI've offered to pay a membership fee to this forum. (This idea was politely declined at the time.)

Google is working on disabling ad blockers by the end of this year.

 

[ABB125]

Here's an "interesting" one...

 

[py_megapixel]

Here's an "interesting" one...
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Sounds like a pretty serious accindete...

 

[Purple Train]

I'm getting an advert for "adjustable double beds".
I don't even want to think about reading into that.

 

[Ediswan]

The item being advertised is reasonable. The image is a strange choice (though did recently feature in the forum).

 

[Intercity110]

as the thread title says elsewhere, i thought i'd mention the thousands of adverts which are like this:

and this (actually makes no sense):

 

[Herefordian]

Dating websites.

Albeit they're aimed at people who are attracted to women.

I'm a gay man and not interested in dating anyway.

 

[Intercity110]

What are those?

 

[Herefordian]

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What are those?

They look like tower units.

 

[Intercity110]

They look like tower units.

So like Apple’s ‘Mac pro‘?

 

[Herefordian]

So like Apple’s ‘Mac pro‘?

Essentially, yes.

 

[Ediswan]

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What are those?

Rough guess, small computers which are certified not be a (fire) hazard if installed above a suspended ceiling. 'Edge' being the opposite of 'cloud'. Physically local to whatever they are talking to.

 

[Purple Train]

Apparently there is a clearance sale on shoes, according to the advert I currently have at the bottom of my page.
I own one pair of shoes, one pair of walking boots, and one pair of wellingtons; that is quite enough for me!

I have also recently received job adverts for a Co-op warehouse in Avonmouth (I live a long way away from Avonmouth!), and another advert for women's summer clothing, whose target market I am decidedly not in.

 

[Strathclyder]

Dating websites.

Albeit they're aimed at people who are attracted to women.

I'm a gay man and not interested in dating anyway.

This drives me up the wall, perhaps a bit more than it really should. If/when I start dating, there's a 99.9% chance I'll be looking for another bloke. End of. Doesn't matter how many such ads get flung in my face.

 

[Herefordian]

This drives me up the wall, perhaps a bit more than it really should. If/when I start dating, there's a 99.9% chance I'll be looking for another bloke. End of. Doesn't matter how many such ads get flung in my face.

Sums up how I feel to a tee.

I have been with a woman before. But, it's a long story.

At least I have an amazing daughter and granddaughter as a result.

 

[Strathclyder]

Sums up how I feel to a tee.

I have been with a woman before. But, it's a long story.

At least I have an amazing daughter and granddaughter as a result.

That's something at least. Am glad you're in a much better place now overall in this respect.

 

[Intercity110]

They’re following me everywhere! I‘ve got ads for them on Flickr and YouTube! the only non compute one I get is this

Rather insulting….

 

[Dai Corner]

I'm being urged to buy a skateboard. I'm 62, not 12!

 

[Purple Train]

I'm being urged to look at "tube bending machines".

Don't even know where to start.