Uncle Buck wrote:I guess if I took you off my "foe" list then I could read and comply with your request . . .
bloke wrote:NOTICE:
DO NOT READ THIS POSTING !
Snap! That would require some sort of never ending, circular, scenario.
Uncle Buck wrote:I guess if I took you off my "foe" list then I could read and comply with your request . . .
bloke wrote:NOTICE:
DO NOT READ THIS POSTING !
She needs to be looking at HER computer activities... or perhaps someone else on her network.the elephant wrote:.....These ads were not appearing based on MY computer. They were appearing on computers all over MISSISSIPPI. Hello? They were about consensual sex between children and adults. They cost me a student and saw a parent bashing my reputation because they were visible on her very locked down computer. ....
NDSPTuba wrote:You guys still don't understand how adsense works. The cache it is referring to on on YOUR computer not the tubenet website's computer. A easy way to see how it works, is go to google and search some product. I did it for spanx ( a type of women's figure controlling undergarment ) because I saw an article about and didn't have any idea what the heck it was. The next thing I know I was seeing ads on every site I visited that had ad sense on it, I saw ads for spanx undergarments. Even on THIS VERY SITE.
The key thing here is, it is using cached info on YOUR computer to offer up ads that YOU might be interested in. So if you are seeing ads that are offensive, it is because the ad sense engine found keys words in YOUR cache that said they would be good ads to run. I not saying that you search for offensive stuff ( I'm not ruling it out either ) but you did at some point search using words that are now cached on you computer that the ad sense engine is using to try and market directly to YOU. It has NOTHING to do with the content on this site. All you have to do is clear the cache in YOUR browser and they offensive ads "should" go away. That all depends on the algorithm used by the ad sense engine. Clear your cookies also.
The reason it has started showing up on here as of late, is probably as simple as those ads weren't on ad sense until recently.
All that being said, Sean probably could dictate the types of ads that are allowed on this site.
I tend to believe Wade is correct. The issue here is the content WITHIN Tubenet. The language that is posted within the Tubenet threads is what is generating this advertising.TubaTinker wrote: She needs to be looking at HER computer activities... or perhaps someone else on her network.
Wade... it's not Tubenet's fault.
Remember, there is a post from bloke stating that he got the ads on a brand new computer if I remember correctly. Odds are it's as much internal than external. With that being said, Tubenet has long been a place I wouldn't recommend to minors. Sad, but true. Hell, there is very little that the web has to offer that I would recommend to minors.Uncle Buck wrote:I tend to believe Wade is correct. The issue here is the content WITHIN Tubenet. The language that is posted within the Tubenet threads is what is generating this advertising.
Individual user computers may have browsing data that contribute to the problem - but the problem exists independent of that.
Having said all of that, Tubenet is what it is. So don't recommend it to your minor students.
I did! They were by far preferable to the boobies one encounters on TubeNet.TubaTinker wrote:I wonder how many kids watched the boobies and listened to the double-speak on The Oscars last night!
Isn't that like saying "I would never join a club that would have me as a member"?Biggs wrote:I did! They were by far preferable to the boobies one encounters on TubeNet.TubaTinker wrote:I wonder how many kids watched the boobies and listened to the double-speak on The Oscars last night!
the elephant wrote:
I believe that the advertiser was pulling a fast one and posting different ads than what they contracted for, using mundane words to see if they could get around filters that way....
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I still believe that some company was spoofing Google and that Google pulled the ads themselves.
The Big Ben wrote:Has anyone given further thought to a different funding model for TubeNet?
If the random/semi-random advertising was removed and replaced with donations and/or genuine musical advertising content placed by TubeNet, some or all of TubeNet's blocking problems would disappear. This would take organization and cooperation from Sean but has anyone else considered this as a possibility?
Aa random thought which has come to me is that, perhaps, "TubeNet" as a name is being misinterpreted by filtering agents. Variations of the "YouTube" name are being used to draw attention to sites which provide dorn video content. Or, the 'tube' in TubeNet is being interpreted as refering to male 'tubes'.
Jeff "Grasping at straws" Benedict
It could also be that certain words (used innocently) like dating, girls, "Naked Lady" are found on this board and are misinterpreted. With the filtering of some algorithm these "keywords" might be drawing in the ads...."TubeNet" as a name is being misinterpreted by filtering agents.
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+1. This remedy resulted in a very significant/positive change in the "viewing experience" on this site (at least for me) with the 'questionable ad' matter. (In other words, suddenly more "kid/wife/student -friendly...)LJV wrote:Thanks for that. This works very well!...ppalan wrote:I just installed a free app on my MacBook called Do Not Track Plus (DNT+) from a company called Abine http://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php?.