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Jun 5, 2009 | 03:39 AM

73'360f100

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Why are there so many chevy ads everytime i come to this site. I just find it wierd that a fte site would have so many of them.

Jun 5, 2009 | 06:27 AM

horsepuller

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Originally Posted by 73'360f100

Why are there so many chevy ads everytime i come to this site. I just find it wierd that a fte site would have so many of them.

The forum software tracks all of your mouse clicks and url's you visit on the web. Then Google uses that information to provide personalized advertising content based on your interests and items you are predicted to purchase. So essentially, it's yourself who determines what ads you see here. You are lucky though. You get to see truck advertisements. All I get to look at is ads for women's magazines and feminine hygene products!

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Jun 5, 2009 | 06:47 AM

hanklin

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Where`s my **** then? kidding
I`m lucky I quess cause I don`t seem to get all the ads

Jun 5, 2009 | 10:51 AM

jake00

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Originally Posted by horsepuller

it's yourself who determines what ads you see here.

all I get is hot naked chicks...

Jun 5, 2009 | 12:31 PM

00BlueOvalRanger

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Hmmmmmmmmmm. . . I get ads, but, they're FORD ads.

If Google is tracking what/where I go. . . does that tell ya somethin'???

Cut me. I bleed Ford blue.

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Jun 5, 2009 | 01:44 PM

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Actually google ads does not track what websites you visit. Those would be tracking cookies, or spyware - which is a big no no, especially from a company like google.

How it works, is that it scans the site for keywords, such as truck, car, engine, chevy, ford, dodge...etc, and whenever it does its scan of the site to update the ad rotation, it sometimes might see the word "Chevy" or "Silverado" or whatever in a post, and then it decides that a chevy ad is relevant. So if you, and everyone else stops posting the word chevy completely, then the chevy ads will go away