Originally Posted by
joanek
Thank you for responding. I realize that it's practically impossible to police ads and scammers are very good at getting things through in any case. I am, however, surprised to not see more complaints about those ads --at least from women. Even if they won't do any good.
I saw some of those in my gmail account yesterday, presented by google in the top two lines of the gmail interface itself under 'social' & 'promotions'. Today they were gone. As far as gender goes, the adsense ad server knows (or thinks it knows) your gender and various other details and serves you ads the algorithm thinks might suit you. One would assume that the people sending you those ads requested they be shown to a certain demographic which certainly doesn't include women.
