This was the first time I had seen these ads on CC and I was flabbergasted. I took the time to write the ad content on paper so I could properly describe the ads to the website administrators. The Angelina Jolie banner ad was also on the forum login gateway page, not the home page as I wrote above.
I just logged out, closed my browser, re-opened Firefox and entered the site in the same manner. This time the banner ad did not appear, but in place of the ad to the left of the description of Dave Berry’s services there was a 404 message, which means that the image (ad) did not load. If you look carefully, you can see where each piece of information is coming from when you load a page.
Many of the sponsor ads on CC actually come from other sites, e.g., Google Ad Services. The ad content is maintained on another company’s site and the CC page simply refers your browser to that site to get the ad content. In that manner the ad companies can rotate the ads since many of the ads only pay for the display when someone clicks on them to go to their site.
Perhaps someone is messing with the ads on the hosting site and the CC administrators are unaware of what is being displayed sometimes.
In any event, I made the post above to get their attention so they could have their IT personnel look into the matter if they didn’t authorize the display of the content I saw.