On 9 December 2013 09:14, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: > On 12/8/2013 9:18 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: >> >> I can confirm there existence on my home computers. > > > They aren't a secret. They are there on purpose, and have always been there, > and help defray the site hosting fees. > > I actually kind of like seeing what Google thinks are relevant ads for D :-) > > I briefly tried Amazon context sensitive ads, hoping they would show ads for > relevant programming books. Wouldn't that be cool? But most of the ads were > for the latest Batman movie. Even worse, it would delay the page loading by > up to 40 seconds. So I gave up and removed them. > > > As an aside, I recently bought a kitchen faucet. For weeks afterwards, I was > bombarded on web pages by ads for that very same faucet from the same > vendor. How many kitchens did they think I have? It was an epic fail of > their (I don't know which company did the ad delivery) data mining ad > delivery software.
In my most recently departed job at a hosting company, we used to always get google adverts from competing companies, some of whom worked just two doors down in the University our office was based. ;-)
