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Offline Peripatetic Phil

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Bizarre choice by "AdChoices"
« on: July 23, 2012, 09:37 PM »
Just reviewing my personal "sent messages" folder, and this popped up by courtesy of "AdChoices" :
QuoteTalend Open Source ESB : Open Source ESB Based on Apache CXF and Apache Camel. Free Download!

Now I thought I was IT-literate (after 35 years in the profession) but (a) WTH is an "ESB" (and for that matterm WTH are Apache CXF and Apache Camel ?), and (b) which member of "AdChoices" thought, in a moment of ?temporary? insanity,  it might be of interest or relevant to members of a forum devoted entirely to curries ?!

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Re: Bizarre choice by "AdChoices"
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2012, 11:05 PM »
looks like it gave you the hump Phil... ::)

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Re: Bizarre choice by "AdChoices"
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2012, 01:18 AM »
Fullers ESB is a nice drop.  :)

Offline StoneCut

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Re: Bizarre choice by "AdChoices"
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2012, 09:16 AM »
AdChoice ads are, to my knowledge, targetted at users and not sites. So, since you used to work in the IT field these ads seem targetted at YOU (and not this forum) instead.

Similarily, I get ads for Project Management on this site, but I work in IT, too !

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Re: Bizarre choice by "AdChoices"
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2012, 12:44 AM »
So why do I get ads for Viagra, Baldness and lesbian dwarves, when I'm not bald?


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Re: Bizarre choice by "AdChoices"
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2012, 06:32 AM »
Quote from: StoneCut on July 24, 2012, 09:16 AM
AdChoice ads are, to my knowledge, targetted at users and not sites. So, since you used to work in the IT field these ads seem targetted at YOU (and not this forum) instead.

Similarily, I get ads for Project Management on this site, but I work in IT, too !

Send em on to me StoneCut, I'm a Project Manager  :D

Dajoca, you can keep the ones for the viagra'd bald female dwarfs though...  ;D ;D

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Re: Bizarre choice by "AdChoices"
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2012, 09:45 AM »
Well, I have just been offered
QuoteLose 4 Stone in 3 Months?
    Discover the Shocking Truth About Britain's Hottest Diet...
    SomeSite.com/Diet

I can't help feeling that when AdChoices interrogated my webcam it got back a very distorted and unflattering view of my waistline ...

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Re: Bizarre choice by "AdChoices"
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2012, 08:32 PM »
Quote from: Dajoca on August 03, 2012, 12:44 AM
So why do I get ads for Viagra, Baldness and lesbian dwarves, when I'm not bald?
Hahaha.

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Re: Bizarre choice by "AdChoices"
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2012, 11:44 AM »
Quote from: Dajoca on August 03, 2012, 12:44 AM
So why do I get ads for Viagra, Baldness and lesbian dwarves, when I'm not bald?

I get those as well. Not interested in most of those, but I like to wear Doc Martins, check shirts and short hair, and attracted to women so maybe I'm targetted as a lesbian.  8)

 

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