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Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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Post by sheraz » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 2:14 PM UTC

ssharp wrote: post #18

sheraz wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

C'mon -- is it really that big of a deal? Since when did a little skin or innuendo become "unprofessional?"

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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Post by gotchange » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 2:15 PM UTC

ssharp wrote: 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…

BTW, these ads might have been served in interest based fashion. It is not always safe to blame publishers for those racy inappropriate ads.

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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Post by iamjustinleon » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 2:16 PM UTC

This is from the NY COMpost. Take this with very large grain of salt.

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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Post by craigching » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 2:16 PM UTC

ssharp wrote: post #16

izacus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> no browsing history/cookies and got the same ads.

Maybe that's the point ;) With no history, they're using what works best :D

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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Post by deanCommie » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 2:16 PM UTC

ssharp wrote: 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…

#1 - why aren't you using AdBlock, or Ghostery, or Privacy Badger. Any of those would block these ads #2 - Since you are not using the tools above, you are sharing a lot of your browsing data to trackers elsewhere on the web that aggregate the content and present you with what they think you will like. No judgement, but maybe start using incognito mode for your NSFW browsing. I turned off my blockers and none of the ads I was shown were anything like what you describe.

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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Post by pc86 » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 2:17 PM UTC

deanCommie wrote: post #25

ssharp wrote: 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…

#1 - why aren't you using AdBlock, or Ghostery, or Privacy Badger. Any of those would block these ads #2 - Since you are not using the tools above, you are sharing a lot of your browsing data to trackers elsewhere on the web that aggregate the content and present you with what they think you will like. No judgement, but maybe start using incognito mode for your NSFW browsing. I turned off my blockers and none of the…

I think his point was that a news site should have anything remotely NSFW.

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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Post by TomBombadildoze » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 2:17 PM UTC

theklub wrote: post #11

ssharp wrote: 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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Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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Post by pc86 » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 2:18 PM UTC

sheraz wrote: post #21

ssharp wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

C'mon -- is it really that big of a deal? Since when did a little skin or innuendo become "unprofessional?"

Are you serious?

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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Post by dplgk » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 2:19 PM UTC

bsharitt wrote: post #19

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.

Do Google, Microsoft and Facebook have their own content?

Re: Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition

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Post by incongruity » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 2:19 PM UTC

deanCommie wrote: post #25

ssharp wrote: 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…

#1 - why aren't you using AdBlock, or Ghostery, or Privacy Badger. Any of those would block these ads #2 - Since you are not using the tools above, you are sharing a lot of your browsing data to trackers elsewhere on the web that aggregate the content and present you with what they think you will like. No judgement, but maybe start using incognito mode for your NSFW browsing. I turned off my blockers and none of the…

Well, if the previous poster was actually at work, they may well be on a machine that they can't install software or browser extensions on - that's the case with my employer issued laptop, for example.