Target, were you thinking?

[Spoof]

I hit up the Target website today to see if they carried something before I drove over..

There were Google ads on the left side in with the navigation and in the center of the site after doing a search! They looked just like the actual navigation font, almost fooled me too.

Way to take people away from your online store. Yeesh.

How do you feel about website ads? I hate being taken off of the site I'm on - I'm there for a reason.

 

[tunes]

I hate all side bar ads. I use Yahoo mail and EVERY freaking time I get on there, there's a bear with his teeth pulled out being attacked by a dog, or an emaciated dog with his tongue hanging out, 3 legs, almost ready to die. I'm sick to death of it. I don't want to be assaulted by that and whatever other crap is on websites when I'm looking for something specific.

 

[alli713]

Peggy, what in the world are you searching for on the internet? A lot of times the advertisements are based on your web searches. Like for mine right now I keep getting ads for hotels since I was recently searching for Hotels for Nationals.

I also had ads too though. I think they make a site look cheap.

 

[tunes]

I check Sioux Falls Humane Society all the time. That's the only thing I can think of. But even so, how would Yahoo mail know that? It's not like I search through them.

Either way, I wish they would stop. It makes me physically ill.

 

[alli713]

ohhh

I'm not sure how they know, it scares me. My one ad said "Still looking for a hotel in Auburn in March?" And was for one of the hotels there.

 

[Rebecca]

If you're using the Yahoo search function while logged into your Yahoo account, I think the company has access to that information.

 

[tunes]

Nope, I've never used Yahoo search (that I know of). I'm a Google gal!

 

[Parkerspetchins]

I saw a report on this the other day as a matter of fact and I can't remember the details of how it is done but all of the search engines are able to gear your ads toward your interests/location...it is rather scary.

 

[alli713]

Yeah... I'm a google searcher, and the ads show up in my yahoo mail as well as my care2.com mail sidebar, so it's not solely related to the site you search through.

 

[alpayton]

Hence the reason I just LOOOOOVE Adblock Plus. I see only the really clever programmers' ads and I only see those once cuz it'll get blocked before I see it again.

 

[Spoof]

I have flash block, it gets rid of the really annoying ones but it also gets rid of a lot of websites too. The ones on the Target page were pictures of text, hadn't seen those before.