If you see only lower case letters, how will you know I'm shouting?
For some days there have been pictures (on my talkbass pages) of a man's badly whipped (bloody) back with the (I ad lib here) "Vladamir putin tortures christians in Russia". And... for the first time today there were ads for handguns (pistols) which claimed to be apparently better than whatever guns you/we might have. As a militant pacifist (an oxymoron too wonderful to rewrite) I would like to not be exposed to vivid, visceral reminders of how shaged up the world is. I am aware of Putin's deplorable behavior without being told about it when expecting a heated arguement about "rosin" e.g.
Thank you for answering my bitching, but... I find Talk Bass useful, and generally civil in its heated discussions about devisive issues like string brands. (for playing bass, not whipping dissidents.
Those Ukraine ones are ads coming from Razom, which all the main ad servicers are pushing everywhere right now. It's nothing to do with Talkbass and entirely to do with Google's ad choices, and it's one of the ones that they've been paid to push out enough that it's not contingent on your search and browser history at all, unlike the majority of the ads you get.
As for the handguns one, I don't know what to tell you, as I've never gotten firearm ads except for when I was searching for them—but it's not outside the realm of reason that something similar is happening there. After all, I never use fiverr but I see ads for it constantly, including here on Talkbass. If you've got personalized ads entirely disabled, then that possibility of it just picking things at random out of the highest-paying advertisers becomes the entire expectation.
Paul, and
maybe the other admins,
might be able to go in and adjust some preferences to try and stop such ads from being shown on the site, but that's only a reactionary thing—there's no way to stop ads from appearing before one of the many users on the site receives them, and then they have to go back into the reports and see what all the ads are and start selecting which ones to block, from what I remember.
Add on that the ads are still individually geared towards each individual user, and thus no two users are going to have the exact same rotation of ads showing, and it gets to be a real hassle to try and see what's showing and what ought to be blocked and what not.
Frankly, the easiest solution for everybody involved that I can see, if you like Talkbass and use it often enough, would be to pick up a gold supporting membership and go entirely ad-free.
