It'd be hilarious if every tech bubble was conveniently bookended with an acquisition of Time Warner.
Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition
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#32Lovely 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…
After seeing your comment, I opened the article again, scrolled down, and didn't see anything like you were talking about. Then I remembered that I have uBlock Origin installed. It sounds like you might want to consider a similar ad-blocking extension.
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#33Of 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?
Facebook's users are its content factories. Same goes for Youtube.
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#34Lovely 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'm a digital marketing manager, so part of my job is buying display ads and seeing what our competitors are doing with display ads.
Also see my reply to another comment that I opened the ir.net site in a brand new virtual machine with no history and got the same ads.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
#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.
Which is usually based on your browsing habits. You're not just shown random NSFW ads for nothing; which is what deanCommie's point was.
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#36Earlier 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.
I will follow this up. I'm guessing that by clean, you mean no porn. However, your search history, even in a professional context, can say a lot about you.
1) Search stack traces on google much? You are probably a developer.
2) Visit buzzfeed, vice.com, or other news sites, even on your lunch or coffee break? Click on certain stories that might skew to a male audience?
3) Have facebook or twitter open? Then you've just handed them the keys to the demographic kingdom.
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#38Not sure this would be the smartest move.
Aligning yourself with a company that has a notorious history of screwing its customers and providing less than decent customer service I think would instantly take that bulletproof Apple reputation and tarnish it immediately.
This alone makes me think this is another Apple head fake into the area of content creation.
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#39The article is not convincing enough. Till this point, they're just market rumors. Wait to hear some confirmation from Bloomberg or WSJ before analyzing it more seriously.
PS: Anyone noticed that the second part of the article reads like it's written by a robot, one of those AI reporters?
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#40It'd be hilarious if every tech bubble was conveniently bookended with an acquisition of Time Warner.
I was just thinking: "it's come to that again..."