Contextual Advertising on DVD Talk
04-14-10, 07:06 AM
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Re: Contextual Advertising on DVD Talk
Punishment for bad posts.
04-24-10, 12:20 AM
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Re: Contextual Advertising on DVD Talk
Hey, I fuckin HATE this shit. It's annoying and looks shitty. I'm a paying member now. It seems my Firefox was avoiding it but now it's all over the place.
How much more can I pay per year to have this shit killed when I'm visiting dvdtalk?
How much more can I pay per year to have this shit killed when I'm visiting dvdtalk?
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04-26-10, 12:22 AM
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Re: Contextual Advertising on DVD Talk
And I fully agree about contextual advertising. It's lame and annoying and, most of all, it's not even good advertising. It's going to do nothing buy piss off your potential customers and drive viewers away from the sites that use it. It's not a good deal for anybody.
04-26-10, 12:45 AM
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Re: Contextual Advertising on DVD Talk
No I don't use that but I'm going to look into it. Anyway, I don't know what happened. It was on full tilt over this weekend then it went away. I don't see it now.
I'm guessing they were testing...
I'm guessing they were testing...
01-04-11, 06:05 AM
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Hopefully it's just a random occurence.
01-04-11, 07:46 AM
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I'm probably speaking out of turn...
The one and only time I ever saw contextual advertising was when I approached the forums via a search site.
My understanding is that if you arrive here either by typing in the URL http://forum.dvdtalk.com, or by using a direct bookmark/favourite, you shouldn't see contextual advertising.
If anyone is seeing it but didn't arrive by way of a search site, posting the full details here might elicit something by way of an official reply.
(No promises, mind you, because I am not in a position to promise anything).
01-16-11, 09:24 PM
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Re: I'm probably speaking out of turn...
I make the following observations/comments as a longterm DVDTalker rather than in any quasi-official capacity:
The one and only time I ever saw contextual advertising was when I approached the forums via a search site.
My understanding is that if you arrive here either by typing in the URL http://forum.dvdtalk.com, or by using a direct bookmark/favourite, you shouldn't see contextual advertising.
If anyone is seeing it but didn't arrive by way of a search site, posting the full details here might elicit something by way of an official reply.
The one and only time I ever saw contextual advertising was when I approached the forums via a search site.
My understanding is that if you arrive here either by typing in the URL http://forum.dvdtalk.com, or by using a direct bookmark/favourite, you shouldn't see contextual advertising.
If anyone is seeing it but didn't arrive by way of a search site, posting the full details here might elicit something by way of an official reply.
ETA: Though it doesn't look like it's happening here.
ETA 2: And it's showing up in this thread for me -- in post 105, "Firefox" is linkified and brings up a BestBuy ad, and in 106 "Internet" brings up an AMD ad.
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01-17-11, 01:19 AM
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Re: Contextual Advertising on DVD Talk
Still have never seen this, but I always come here by direct typing in the address.
01-19-11, 07:07 PM
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01-14-12, 12:27 AM
#114
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Re: Contextual Advertising on DVD Talk
Kontera's coming up again. I think the issue is I first visited the site w/out logging in. Now I am logged in and still get these.
01-16-12, 07:40 PM
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01-23-12, 04:27 AM
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Re: Contextual Advertising on DVD Talk
Eventually it goes away. The issue is doing a search and getting to the site without logging in. Once you log in, Kontera sticks around for a bit. After a few days, it went away.
It's only startling because I thought it was a virus.
It's only startling because I thought it was a virus.
03-01-13, 06:34 PM
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Re: Contextual Advertising on DVD Talk
I've never got these before but they started up today. "Bonnie Franklin," "Documentary," "Pancreatic Cancer."
Each link takes a bit of my soul away.
Each link takes a bit of my soul away.
03-01-13, 07:56 PM
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Re: Contextual Advertising on DVD Talk
It'd be one thing if they made sense, but the contextual ad link for "home theater equipment" (on the front page, no less), takes you to a site for lawn mowers. So dumb.