Never considered....
Nov 7, 2016, 2:26 pm
#1
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Never considered....
Deeply disappointed that FT would take money from these scumbags.
Doubly disappointed that I have to see this crap every time I hit the FlyerTalk page...
Doubly disappointed that I have to see this crap every time I hit the FlyerTalk page...
Nov 7, 2016, 2:30 pm
#2
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Does FT sign up directly with advertisers, or are the ads provided by a third-party ad broker?
Nov 7, 2016, 2:32 pm
#3
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The ads are usually based on sites you've visited - I'm not sure FT has anything to do with what does or does not display. Perhaps you clicked on a link someone posted here?
Nov 7, 2016, 2:54 pm
#4
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they base it on threads visited. Someone mentioned that they got golf related ads because of participating in a few of the golf themed posts in Omni.
Nov 7, 2016, 3:14 pm
#5
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OP the ads are personalized based on your search history, sites you have visited, etc. So you may have read a news article / visited some site / posted something related to the NRA in the recent past.
Nov 7, 2016, 4:02 pm
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One of my faves was a google ad after I looked up "prong horned antelope".
A few web pages later, I saw an ad that said "looking to buy a prong horned antelope?" Um...no, I'm not.
A few web pages later, I saw an ad that said "looking to buy a prong horned antelope?" Um...no, I'm not.
Nov 7, 2016, 4:13 pm
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After watching the first season of Narcos, I looked up hotels in Medellín (just for a) fun and b) trying to find out what hotels they used in some scene). I received a couple of unsolicited email reminders for hotels in Colombia... 
Nov 7, 2016, 4:26 pm
#8
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Odd, I almost never see any ads on flyertalk not travel related. All of them are travel credit card ads.
Nov 7, 2016, 6:21 pm
#9
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Nov 7, 2016, 7:54 pm
#10
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I'm not sure any of this behaviour is unique to FT. I've lost count of the number of times I've google'd something or browsed something, only to realize in a day or two that ads on pretty much every forum I visit are tailored to that something.
Nov 7, 2016, 7:55 pm
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Nov 7, 2016, 10:32 pm
#13
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I'm pretty sure it's Google Adsense--it's tied to the content of the page. Unfortunately, on discussion forums this has a tendency to go hilariously wrong.
Nov 7, 2016, 10:33 pm
#14
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eBay: Looking to buy technitium-99?