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Old 2nd February 2009, 2:39 PM   #1
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Why the **** are there ads for companies that promote infidelity running on LS?!?!?!?
For Christ's sake, people come to LS to get help with their problems.This company is in the business of CREATING problems.

Mods, are you paying attention?

Does anybody else find this pretty disgusting?

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Old 2nd February 2009, 3:14 PM   #2
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LS uses Google ads, which search web pages for keywords. A poster started a thread about this service so Google picked it up. As a premium subscriber, I don't see the ads but it's the same on my forums. There's Alzheimer drug ads everywhere

BTW, the thread you started here added more ad placements
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Old 2nd February 2009, 4:13 PM   #3
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i never really see the ads... they just blend like white noise....... just ignore it.
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Old 2nd February 2009, 4:34 PM   #4
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LS uses Google ads, which search web pages for keywords. A poster started a thread about this service so Google picked it up. As a premium subscriber, I don't see the ads but it's the same on my forums. There's Alzheimer drug ads everywhere

BTW, the thread you started here added more ad placements
I've been seeing the ads sporadically over the past few months, so it wasn't just today's threads...but yeah, it's picked up with the recent spate of mentions of a certain site. Oh, the irony. OK, let's all stop talking about that company now and maybe it'll just go away.
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Old 2nd February 2009, 5:31 PM   #5
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The company likely buys keyword placement, for example "infidelity", but precise naming of the company will generate a more pervasive hit. They pay for how well the keywords target the ad, as well as the click-through's.
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Old 2nd February 2009, 5:58 PM   #6
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I don't see ads (you just need to subscribe )

Plus I disagree that it is creating problems.. maybe they are solving problems..

Plus.. I don't smoke so.. if I see an advertisement about cigarettes.. it won't make me smoke..

It's a FREE WORLD!!!
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Old 2nd February 2009, 6:59 PM   #7
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Here's another way to look at it: The company supporting infidelity pays for the ad placement, and for the click-throughs, right? Doesn't this have the potential to be a kind of a reverse action kind of thing, where you know that they are probably getting sub-average return from these ads, yet they are still paying good money for them?
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Old 9th February 2009, 7:45 PM   #8
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For Christ's sake, people come to LS to get help with their problems.This company is in the business of CREATING problems.

Mods, are you paying attention?

Does anybody else find this pretty disgusting?
I found it upsetting too!

I'm sure it is just clumped in with all the other advertising, but like some have said I may look at becoming a supporting member and then there is no need for the ads. They need the ads so people will click on them to keep this website up, but yet if members like us would pay for a membership....no need for the ads!!
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Old 9th February 2009, 7:47 PM   #9
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Old 9th February 2009, 7:47 PM   #10
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Old 9th February 2009, 8:19 PM   #11
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PEOPLE.. if those ads upset you.. gosh... just SUBSCRIBE... what's wrong with you guys.. you pass most of your free time on this board and you don't want to spend the equivalent of a coffee/muffin in order to enjoy this place for a full month...

Shame on you... cheapee.. cheapee..
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Old 9th February 2009, 8:26 PM   #12
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I'd guess that the ads help support the site that you enjoy so much. Take away the ads, and you might not have a LoveShack to even bytch about it.

And yes, get a subscription if it bugs you so much. Maybe if more people subscribed they wouldn't have to run those kinds of ads.
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Old 9th February 2009, 8:27 PM   #13
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Does anybody else find this pretty disgusting?
indeed, i do. and i'm withdrawing LS's access to the $7 million endowment fund that i set up. this is intolerable
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Old 9th February 2009, 8:29 PM   #14
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PEOPLE.. if those ads upset you.. gosh... just SUBSCRIBE... what's wrong with you guys..
well i subscribed twice a long time ago thinking i would get preferential treatment and i didn't. so why would i subscribe again?
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Old 9th February 2009, 8:29 PM   #15
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indeed, i do. and i'm withdrawing LS's access to the $7 million endowment fund that i set up. this is intolerable


Actually, no offense to anyone but whining annoys me more than those ads.

(Sheesh...why do I like it here again?)
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