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Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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Lovely that this site's "sponsored content" ads on the right are completely inappropriate for work and take up a pretty decent chunk on the page. The images are: 1) Woman wearing shirt that exposes most of her breasts. 2) Man kissing a woman's neck while both are in bed. Man appears to be shirtless, woman is in bra. 3) Woman in bikini with her hands holding her breasts up. 4) Woman in cutoff white shirt having breast…

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Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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post #10

Lovely that this site's "sponsored content" ads on the right are completely inappropriate for work and take up a pretty decent chunk on the page. The images are: 1) Woman wearing shirt that exposes most of her breasts. 2) Man kissing a woman's neck while both are in bed. Man appears to be shirtless, woman is in bra. 3) Woman in bikini with her hands holding her breasts up. 4) Woman in cutoff white shirt having breast…

Heh, funny, since I get mostly "Get rich fast" ads with pictures of stacks of Euros with ad number 2) from your description the only one that's the same :)

In any case it seems to tell a lot about geolocation targeting.

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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That would be an awful development for those of us who are stuck with only Time Warner as an internet option and want nothing to do with Apple.

It's really difficult for me to imagine Apple providing a worse customer experience in this sector than Time Warner currently does.

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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post #10

Lovely that this site's "sponsored content" ads on the right are completely inappropriate for work and take up a pretty decent chunk on the page. The images are: 1) Woman wearing shirt that exposes most of her breasts. 2) Man kissing a woman's neck while both are in bed. Man appears to be shirtless, woman is in bra. 3) Woman in bikini with her hands holding her breasts up. 4) Woman in cutoff white shirt having breast…

Until we find better ways for journalists to pay their rent that's what we are stuck with.

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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post #10

Lovely that this site's "sponsored content" ads on the right are completely inappropriate for work and take up a pretty decent chunk on the page. The images are: 1) Woman wearing shirt that exposes most of her breasts. 2) Man kissing a woman's neck while both are in bed. Man appears to be shirtless, woman is in bra. 3) Woman in bikini with her hands holding her breasts up. 4) Woman in cutoff white shirt having breast…

Hahaha. Glad I don't work where you work. Do you think some of those are are just retargeted to you based on your interest? Me thinks so, because I got ads for gyms and cleanmymac. No boobs here.

Here is a solution:

  1. Install adblock
 
  2. If your employer considers images of everyday things like that to be NSFW, get a new employer.  :-)

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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post #12
post #10

Lovely that this site's "sponsored content" ads on the right are completely inappropriate for work and take up a pretty decent chunk on the page. The images are: 1) Woman wearing shirt that exposes most of her breasts. 2) Man kissing a woman's neck while both are in bed. Man appears to be shirtless, woman is in bra. 3) Woman in bikini with her hands holding her breasts up. 4) Woman in cutoff white shirt having breast…

Heh, funny, since I get mostly "Get rich fast" ads with pictures of stacks of Euros with ad number 2) from your description the only one that's the same :) In any case it seems to tell a lot about geolocation targeting.

I'd normally hold my head in shame and think about what else I've been looking at to trigger these ads, but I know my work browsing is strictly professional :)

edit: Just checked on the site on a fresh EC2 Windows instance with no browsing history/cookies and got the same ads.

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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post #11
post #10

Lovely that this site's "sponsored content" ads on the right are completely inappropriate for work and take up a pretty decent chunk on the page. The images are: 1) Woman wearing shirt that exposes most of her breasts. 2) Man kissing a woman's neck while both are in bed. Man appears to be shirtless, woman is in bra. 3) Woman in bikini with her hands holding her breasts up. 4) Woman in cutoff white shirt having breast…

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My company's filtering system blocked the entire website, categorizing it as "phishing".

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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post #15
post #10

Lovely that this site's "sponsored content" ads on the right are completely inappropriate for work and take up a pretty decent chunk on the page. The images are: 1) Woman wearing shirt that exposes most of her breasts. 2) Man kissing a woman's neck while both are in bed. Man appears to be shirtless, woman is in bra. 3) Woman in bikini with her hands holding her breasts up. 4) Woman in cutoff white shirt having breast…

Hahaha. Glad I don't work where you work. Do you think some of those are are just retargeted to you based on your interest? Me thinks so, because I got ads for gyms and cleanmymac. No boobs here. Here is a solution: 1. Install adblock 2. If your employer considers images of everyday things like that to be NSFW, get a new employer. :-)

I know my work browsing habits are clean!

It's less of what my employer considers NSFW and more of what I don't want on my screen at work.

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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Of all the the big tech companies that have a stake in content delivery platforms, Apple has been the most quiet in terms of actually creating/commissioning its own content. This would certainly be a big swing in that direction and put them far on the opposite side even ahead of Amazon.
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