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04-25-2009, 10:30 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
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I am seeing George right now. I usually don't pay much attention to ads but this one is getting on my nerves. Ads for cell phones, books, retirement communities I can take but I'd rather do without annoying cr@p like that. Time to switch to Firefox and load it with an ad blocker.
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47 years old, single, no kids. Exited the job market in 2010 (age 36). Have lived solely off my investments since 2015 (age 41). No pensions.
Current AA: real estate 64% / equities 10% / fixed income 16% / cash 10%
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04-25-2009, 12:01 PM
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#22
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
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I once saw the virgin Mary in a plate of spaghetti...
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Have Funds, Will Retire
...not doing anything of true substance...
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04-26-2009, 06:01 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Someone posted on the forum about such a business venture last year. I can't recall what came of it.
As far as ads, I have never really noticed them. When I go look now, I see Billy and Akaisha, but generally my eye skips right over them. And I certainly never click on internet ads in any event.
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Living an analog life in the Digital Age.
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04-26-2009, 10:56 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: At The Cafe
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How do it know? ERS Bob is showing up, seems I can buy his book on Amazon. How do they know it is one of the books I haven't read. Spies everywhere.
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04-26-2009, 10:58 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: North Oregon Coast
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by HFWR
I once saw the virgin Mary in a plate of spaghetti...
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And you didn't keep it and sell it for $1,000 on eBay?
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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04-26-2009, 01:07 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ziggy29
And you didn't keep it and sell it for $1,000 on eBay?
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No, the drugs wore off...
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04-26-2009, 09:46 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,502
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HFWR
No, the drugs wore off...
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Whatever drug you took, I'd like some because I have never seen a virgin much less one named Mary.
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04-26-2009, 09:59 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FUEGO
Ad Block Plus for firefox.
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Originally Posted by kumquat
This site has ads?
What Fuego said.
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Originally Posted by Notmuchlonger
Yep not complicated to setup.
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^^ What they said. :yup:
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04-29-2009, 09:28 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahW
^^ What they said. :yup:
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+1 to FireFox/AdBlock Plus (and NoScript). When I use IE it's kind of jarring to suddenly see the clutter and distraction of ads. It's like advertising on television. For all our lives we've been used to our shows being interrupted by blaring commercials, but after avoiding "live" television in favor of Netflix for a couple of years, DW & I are surprised to find television almost unwatchable because of the annoyance of commercials inserted in the middle of the show.
I realize that many web sites depend on advertising revenue, so I have mixed feelings about the use of AdBlock Plus. I have disabled it on a few sites for that reason.
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04-30-2009, 10:56 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,274
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Can we get the ad back on again about good real estate investment opportunities in Bulgaria? I never had a chance to go back and click on it, to see what I might be missing...
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-- Telly, the D-I-Y guy --
Two fools dancing on the hands of time
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05-01-2009, 08:31 AM
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Location: North Oregon Coast
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Originally Posted by SC
I realize that many web sites depend on advertising revenue, so I have mixed feelings about the use of AdBlock Plus. I have disabled it on a few sites for that reason.
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Agreed. When there are sites that I want to support and such, I will leave ads on and even occasionally click through. But that requires that the ads not be obnoxious or too intrusive. Garden-variety banner ads are something I could usually take. But the political ones irritate the crap out of me (in the general case) and normally I'd want to block ads on a site that has them. But I feel at least some obligation to not do so here.
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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05-04-2009, 12:18 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hooverville
Posts: 22,983
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It is clear that Google has some software that is capable of parsing my posts. I have never seen a liberal oriented political ad. Mostly I am encouraged to hate George Soros, which seems a little off topic even for a committed social conservative. When I posted "Who's your Daddy?" I started seeing ads for dating young women.
I really should break down and get Firefox, but then I wouldn't have this insight into my web image.
Ha
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05-04-2009, 12:25 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: May 2008
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Originally Posted by haha
It is clear that Google has some software that is capable of parsing my posts. I have never seen a liberal oriented political ad. Mostly I am encouraged to hate George Soros, which seems a little off topic even for a committed social conservative. When I posted "Who's your Daddy?" I started seeing ads for dating young women.
I really should break down and get Firefox, but then I wouldn't have this insight into my web image.
Ha
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Ha, not to disount your hypothesis, but I am seeing dancing heads of Soros, Pelosi, Reid and Michael Moore. But then again, maybe the mods are doing it just to antagonize me? 
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05-04-2009, 01:00 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Nowhere, 43N Latitude, NY
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Same here with the dancing heads. 
I've told George over and over again not to call me, cuz I don't want to see him anymore, but he persists.
He just can't take  for an answer. 
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05-04-2009, 01:54 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by haha
It is clear that Google has some software that is capable of parsing my posts. I have never seen a liberal oriented political ad. Mostly I am encouraged to hate George Soros, which seems a little off topic even for a committed social conservative. When I posted "Who's your Daddy?" I started seeing ads for dating young women.
I really should break down and get Firefox, but then I wouldn't have this insight into my web image.
Ha
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A while back I did a test on what is being tracked by this forum.
http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...light=tracking
You might notice in the above link all the activity tracking that is done. For fun and profit I presume. Each time anyone posts a message that message is analyzed for content and ads are tailored based on content. YMMV. 
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05-04-2009, 03:39 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: May 2008
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..I have found a constructive way to deal with these annoying ads. 
Now, who should I link with the erectile dysfunction screenshot?
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05-04-2009, 03:48 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Hooverville
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ls99
A while back I did a test on what is being tracked by this forum.
http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...light=tracking
You might notice in the above link all the activity tracking that is done. For fun and profit I presume. Each time anyone posts a message that message is analyzed for content and ads are tailored based on content. YMMV. |
No, my mileage does not vary at all from that. That is exactly what i figured had to be happening, from looking at the ads I see.
Ha
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05-04-2009, 05:22 PM
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Administrator
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Location: Pacific NW
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So now one besides me is seeing the IE 8 ad with the strange extra mouse pointer? First time I ran my mouse across it I wondered if my wheaties had been laced with something odd?
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05-04-2009, 05:44 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Janet H
So now one besides me is seeing the IE 8 ad with the strange extra mouse pointer? First time I ran my mouse across it I wondered if my wheaties had been laced with something odd?
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I'm seeing the IE8 ad also.
Can we be bad children and put some out of context words here as bait to see what ads pop up? No 4 letter words of course  , just silly stuff like kangaroo, pregnancy, aardvark, Metamucil, diarrhea, Mickey Mouse, locusts, etc etc 
Real time update - This post just caused my ad to change from IE8 to Showboat Mardis Gras Casino. Now which keyword caused that change? Aardvark or locusts?
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05-04-2009, 05:55 PM
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Location: New Orleans
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No fair! All I get is that same old "Neptune Memorial Reef" ad.
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