when one company seems to buy all the advertising space on the internet

almost EVERY webpage i go to now has an ad for saddleback leather ipad cases or something on it. last year, it was some jewish magazine. does anyone else notice this / find it weird?

clear the cookies on your browser

exCUSE me?

facebook wants me to buy shoes, get a master's in social work, and pick out a new verizon phone (which i just did, incidentally).

I keep forgetting the internet has ads on it. (thank you Adblock)

i googled a bunch of folk art paintings a while ago, & now wherever i go it's FOLK ART PAINTINGS AUCTION. it makes it look like it's the biggest industry in the world, just sprawled over the NYT & elsewhere, all internet users equally receptive to the allure of folk art. amazing.

you prob looked at buying something ipad-related one time and some ads use the cookie-info on your computer to decide what to show you

xp

adblock made my browser crash.

you prob looked at buying something ipad-related one time and some ads use the cookie-info on your computer to decide what to show you

xp

― iatee, Saturday, July 14, 2012 7:45 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

huh that hadnt even occurred to me

Evony was the greatest at this.

yes!!

ever since the hawaiian shirts thread ive been getting ads for that hawaiian shirt company grady linked to

evony!

Those cookie ads are terrifying. The company I work for haunts my every browse as a result of them.

i totally assumed this was a joke thread from the s1ockmeister.

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I visited the website of a wristwatch manufacturer once and for the next two months half the ads I saw were for them.

this is no joke... no joke at all!

You're telling me. I can't even afford a wristwatch!

i dont even know how to read time these people!

once i googled "one weird trick my podiatrist doesn't want me to know" and now...all these fucking ads!

but i've saved about $50 on insoles.

anyone here got a flat belly

'Trick discovered by a mom that whitens teeth' - I don't even have any damn teeth!

Come play, my lord

JoS. A. Banks
Indochino

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I'm so mad at all these mad professionals. The burgeoning new field of sneaky tricks has the potential to bring such benefits to humanity, yet they try to suppress it at every turn. It's selfish career protectionism.

I visited the website of a wristwatch manufacturer once and for the next two months half the ads I saw were for them.

this is bad when:
1. you buy your housemate or loved one a Christmas present and for all the time between then and Christmas your browsing is filled with rotating pictures of their present
2. you visit the clothes section of a department store at work and for the next month your work browser is covered in pictures of models in lingerie
3. you looked at e.g. fridges online, and even though you've already bought one you keep getting ads for more fridges, in case you feel like starting a collection
4. on p. much all other occasions actually, never mind

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