Abob Teff

Am I just being overly-sensitive, or is this side-bar ad somewhat disturbing?

Sonic

Disturbing yes. Along with a huge WTF.

milo bloom

Kinda questionable. I mean, you'd see girls in swimsuits like that in the Target ad, but showing her next to adult women in considerably "sexier" bikinis does raise an eyebrow.

andicus

My eyes were drawn to the first two, not surprisingly, and I was thinking how it wasn't disturbing, just inappropriate based on forum rules. Then I saw the bottom one, and WTF? Yeah, that's pretty bad, in that context.

The other thing that gets me is that we're not supposed to post any 'racy' pics, due to the impact it could have on advertising revenue, yet we get those ads? Really?

IBJoel

Click the blue X in the top corner and report, please. That ad is I think an unintentionally poor taste juxtaposition.

andicus to my knowledge the only ban on photos dealing with Google rank/ad revenue is nudity.

andicus

Good to know, Joel. I know it has lightened up a bit, as to what can be posted. At one point it seemed a simple pic of an attractive woman was met with disapproval, but I haven't seen anything called out, lately.

Thanks!

Norm de Plume

I didn't notice that was a little girl until I zoomed in. The adjacency to the suggestive adult pics definitely sexualizes the child.

Abob Teff

Here we go again ...

milo bloom

There’s a legit way to advertise unders for youngins.

That ain’t it.

IBJoel

Please report the ad with the blue "x". Almost all of our ads are programmatic, essentially meaning they are "blind" placements. i.e. we don't directly purchase/approve them and they're placed by an algorithm

Abob Teff

Based on your direction last time, I did. Does that do any good about the inappropriateness of the ad though? There was a checkbox for "the ad was inappropriate" but nothing to specify the reason. I'm still getting plenty of sexy women ads (which I'm a pig, so I'm OK with), so that tells me they didn't really look into the reason. I highly doubt they picked that out right away. I got the impression it was just more of a "Sorry, we'll shovel other shit your way."

Maybe its just me, but I didn't feel that that was "reporting the ad" as much as it was "you are inadvertently giving us more permission to target you."