Adverts

Just a note to say thank you for bearing with it all and for your support. But in your enthusiasm you shouldn’t click on the adverts repeatedly. Google monitor and look for people trying to game their adverts and will ban sites on which they see it occuring. A visit to an add now and again helps but not all the time. Anyway, you have better things to do.

26 thoughts on “Adverts”

  1. I don’t suppose you get to choose the ads – I also suppose it would obviously stick out like a sore thumb if the Golemites en masse were to start clicking frantically away at the sort of ads that appear on Zerohedge, which incidentally, I didn’t even realise were there until I looked for them.

    1 or 2 clicks a week maybe, or would it be best to be more random ? I fancy clicking on exotic holiday ads, no harm in a spot of fantasy 🙂

    1. Stevie,

      Golem doesn’t choose the Ads, google chooses them for you based on what is in your browser cache.
      (so really you choose your own Ads based on what you previously searched for)

      I recommend clearing your cache every now and then or setting your browser to clear it on exit each time. (same goes for cookies).

      Now I’ve mentioned cookies Golem, you should have some kind of cookie notification popup as this is a requirement.

      http://www.dailytech.com/UK+Law+Demanding+Tracking+Cookies+and+Analytics+Notification+Takes+Hold/article24790.htm

      1. Thanks BobRocket,

        I had no idea. I’ll let Marcus know about it.

        Of course it’s far too late for you all to worry about it now. I sold all the details of your countercultural leanings to Goldman Sachs long ago. How do you think I became so rich?

        1. “the cookie law” funniest thing i have seen in a while. Not since the 2000 bug has anything so pointlessly been touted by politicians trying to do the right thing without any understanding of what they are talking about. Looking forward to the first website bust, I am willing to wager it will be a very long time. I feel sorry for the small businesses who are put through this pointless expense scared by their web designer/contemporaries/panic news reports that it is necessary. http://www.advantec-internet.co.uk/general-web/freedom-of-information-request-exposes-pointless-cookie-law/

      2. Thanks Bob – Targeted selling through analysis of my recent searches will probably mean I will get some fool trying to sell me an old master painting, but more likely it will be some aged celeb trying to get me to throw cash into some sort of financial black hole for the over fifties or buy a chairlift. Both even less exciting than Hawkeye’s mature singles.

      3. I didn’t know it was browser cache that google also used for the tailored adverts. I was wondering how it knew things when i wasn’t logged in to Google for searches. Classic. I hope i didn’t come over too abrupt about the cookie law Bob but it is one of those laws that really gets my goat.

        1. I agree the cookie law ranks amongst the more stupid of the mass of legislation that emanates from that place.
          I haven’t implemented it on any of my sites because the only traffic I get is from East European spammers and Chinese hackers.
          Golem however gets lots of hits from many sources and his posts are well informed and well written enough to get up the noses of TPTB, it is always worthwhile to be prepared.
          The article you linked to says they have 0 dedicated staff working on compliance, this is only because they haven’t decided how they will monetize it yet.

          Did someone say HSBC were laundering Drug money and facilitating Gun Running again.

          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/offshorefinance/9665741/HSBC-investigation-Drug-dealers-gun-runners-and-Britains-biggest-bank.html

  2. No problem generally about the adverts.

    Indeed I was very curious as to the new re-branding of Southport which appeared yesterday, I believe.

    Anyway, just as long as there are no “Mature Singles” adverts in there.

    I have to be very careful when checking out Zerohedge whilst at work! Or indeed when my wife is watching 🙂

      1. Hi David!

        No problem. Looks like I have an evening free tonight, so will be able to browse with impunity!

        I will also try and finish that article on the IMF paper about money reform. Nearly finished it last week, but just needs tidying up! Sorry to you and others for my tardiness.

        1. hawkeye,

          Kindly get your act together and stop complaining. I will, without hesitation, cancel my non existent subscription should such disgraceful slacking continue.

          You bloody plebs, can’t do an honest days work without a sound whipping from the likes of me…

          cont p94.

  3. I’ve just made donation so I can now feel o.k. about ignoring the ads!

    Actually that got me thinking. How much of the web would survive without advertising?

  4. I’m getting MSF adverts. Does that mean I’m a better person than everyone here? By the sounds of it, you lot are up to something, naming no names *cough Hawkeye *cough*

  5. Golem,

    Put as many ads up as you like, my only request is that you avoid the intrusive ones that play unwanted videos or those you can’t seem to get rid of. I’m sure I speak for every reader when I say if I see something i wish to buy I will buy it via this site if at all possible.

    Good luck and please keep the thoughts flowing. That is why we all come here.

    1. Oh I see.

      Well this could be tricky because I had requested ones where a large duck pops up on your screen and promptly marches all over the top of your work insistently quacking out an advertizing message.

      This wouldn’t be a problem for anyone would it?

      1. No duck 🙂 but just as expected an old codger ad, this one trying to get hold of my imaginary £250,000 nest egg, which I suppose is kind of poultry related. There is also a banking expert who wants to talk to me – for a laugh I would imagine.

        Wonderful targeting, they fiendishly managed to get my age nearly right.

  6. I just spent ten minutes checking out the technical specs of the Fujitsu Life Book. There is some usefull information beyond the spin of Advertising.
    I was recently in Copenhagen at a Guitar Show, On the first night in an adjoining Hall there was an annual Danish Advertising Jamboree( I was sleeping in my camper van at the Exhibition location), The party went on till about 2 in the morning) , called the Truth Awards. I like the Danes, I am sure it was ironic.

    1. Courtesy of Google Translate, I don’t speak Danish.

      The True Award celebrating the year’s best films with a total of 9 offers. The evening’s big winner harms people, and a creative customer has been able to hand-pick good craftsmen. Best campaign came from a well-known supermarket chain.

      It was sold to The True Award, Friday evening was presented in rustic surroundings of Locomotive Workshop in Copenhagen. The many people were served Denmark’s best commercials of the experienced award-ceremonies, Anders Lund Madsen – and the good mood was by no means broken up by the winners spoke films that were rewarded in the past.

      The evening’s big winner was Call Me and “Speak properly., It is contagious” – from the freelance-based agency Jangaard, Mark & ​​Ko. Two weeks ago, it was for Involvement Award at the ram, and True Award was not one, but two awards: Best Film and Audience Award the 2012th

      http://www.bureaubiz.dk/Nyheder/Artikler/2012/Uge-40/Her-er-Danmarks-bedste-reklamefilm

    1. Wonderful chilling sobering stuff. Thank you very much for posting it.

      In my industry, televisin, the awful thing is it was possible to do wonderful things. Film is such a beautiful, powerful inspiring medium. Things you could feel proud of. But the tide of the last twenty years has been strongly against any such achievements. Those in charge, and I knew quite a few of the top people personally, had turned their backs on the old notion of doing something to be proud of, in favour of a more business approach of getting more viewers and, as the man wrote, shifting more product’.

      Over the years it has become harder and harder to get anything wonderful commissioned. Ideas are not wanted. Spectacle and titilation are wanted. Failing those then something soothingly familiar which asks no questions makes few demands and slips past with the least effort is what TV prefers.

      And those who make and commission the stuff have the same conversation the Ad man talks about. Everyone pats themselves on the back for how many hours, evenings, weekends and holidays they work – and for what?

      1. You are very welcome – Thank goodness the BBC do still put out some brilliant documentaries, yours very much included. I get to watch about 3 a week on the i-player, ” Before the big bang ” & Al-khalili on thermodynamics were some I recently enjoyed, but I guess unlike you I have no idea what the possibilities could be if they were allowed to be fully explored within this artform.

        I myself have spent most of my working life working from home as a freelancer so I got to participate in a lot of family things despite often working long hours, & when I did spend time working in an organisation, I still did my own thing only lasting in these positions because my designs sold well.

        It does seem to be another or a part of the ” Big Lie ” that success should only be judged on how far a person can climb up the slippery pole & how many things they can acquire along the way, I seem to have ended up reasonably happy & satisfied with my contribution, so far, totally by default.

  7. If the ads really bug you view by proxy via http://www.startpage.com. Just type in your search for these pages, click the ‘proxy’ option and voila! Your IP address isn’t captured and you don’t get bugged by marketing of any kind.

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