Bothered by Ad on CC

College Confidential Community
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I just read the thread posted in the Parent Cafe about Tyson dropping Labor Day in favor of a Muslim holiday. This is the link – <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/548067-tyson-plant-drops-labor-day-muslim-holiday.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/548067-tyson-plant-drops-labor-day-muslim-holiday.html</a>

When I clicked on the thread, the ad across the top was for a dating service. I read several other threads, then went back to this one and the same ad was across the top.

I am bothered by an ad for a dating service on a college counselling website. Just doesn’t seem to fit the the purpose of the website.

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It may not fit the purpose but it keeps this free site open. Anything short of porn is ok with me. I can’t say as though I even notice the ads.

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The ads aren’t a big deal and the mods can’t do anything about them. Most people don’t even notice.

The ads just respond to key words in the text. Therefore, most Muslim threads have a Muslim dating service ad on them. It just happens.

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I have a mac and use Firefox/Safari. Firefox has an “adblocker” add-on that is really wonderful. It applies to both browsers. I never get any ads, ever.

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How about you don’t go browsing them? Or not go on this site? The mods cannot do anything about this, and maybe if you had some sort of ad-blocker, this would not be a problem.

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I’ve seen some intersting ones on here too. They just normally made me laugh.

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CC uses adsense, which determines its own ads to post on a specific page given the keywords on the page. CC can block the keywords for this, but that’s too much of a hassle, and hey, the revenues gained keep the site open.