(08-30-2018, 12:56 PM)Bullseye Wrote: While I understand the need for advertising and agree generally with how it's been implemented, I do object to the political ads,/banners.

Political discussion is generally forbidden on all boards except the political forum.  Anyone posting political threads in inappropriate forums could have their threads deleted and potentially receive warnings up to banishment.

However, with several advertisements of a political nature or from political websites, the rules regarding political posts ting hollow.  Furthermore, given the ads are typically from one side of the political spectrum, I am left to wonder if duvalpride.com officially endorses that viewpoint.

We use Google AdSense advertisements, so the adverts that are shown are adverts targeted for you based on the Google AdSense magic, part of which is who advert sellers indicate they want to target and how much they are willing to pay (since the highest paying advert wins).

We have previously blacklisted specific adverts based on malware or deceptive advertising concerns (aka a big fake download button) but it has been quite a while since any of that has been reviewed. To be honest, I hadn't considered that we are in a political season and that would cause offense.

That being said, I don't know if your comment about the leaning of the adverts (I haven't looked at the data, so I have no idea which direction it could be) is based out of a misunderstanding on how web banner advert systems work or if there is some other motive, but I would hope that one would give us (me?) the benefit of the doubt vs jumping directly to the charged statements.

Some more info on how it works: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9713?hl=en & https://www.webnots.com/how-google-adsense-works/

I will review the recently displayed adverts and see what can be done.

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