Reply To: Weird Coffee Room ads

“Wedding Planner Ireland”

“Kareo Free EHR” (whatever that is – maybe it’s not weird at all)

“Spa Software”

“All New Grilled Chicken”

“Kosher Goose” (actually, why not?)

Crazybrit: No one else uses this user account on the computer.

Thinking out loud: I wasn’t talking about most of the ads, e.g. any of the ones with color+/animation, just the ones at or near the top and partway down the left side (they may have green arrows). If you reveal them again, you’ll see that the click URLs start with googleadservices.com instead of theyeshivaworld.advertserve.com.

I don’t think they relate to the user, unlike the ads in, say, Gmail. They may well relate to the site – ads featured on the YWN news article “Musician Patient Plays The Violin During Brain Surgery In Israeli Hospital” included “7 Hidden Dementia Signs”, “Epilepsy Treatment”, and “Fiddle & Violin Packages”, none of which I remember seeing before.

Many ads don’t get paid for unless you click on them, so I

don’t know if you contribute to the Internet’s market worth

just by not blocking ads. Maybe I should get an ad blocker.

It’s probably worth the effort…