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HelenWheels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:47 PM Original message |
Why all the repuke ads on DU? |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. They're randomly generated. Our Administrators don't have prior approval, |
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HelenWheels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Don't understand |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 02:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Who's paying for them? thanks to Citizen's United nobody knows. nt |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
2. We generate the ads with our keywords * * PENIS PENIS PENIS ** |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
3. We really need a sticky for this question, it gets asked so much. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 05:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. I believe that's because most people here don't see the ads, our little gold star protects us. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
5. Because the Republiks are spending lots of (our) money buying ads. |
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movonne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
6. Because they have all the money...and for du to get some of that |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
7. It's called 'contextual advertising'. The ads can detect the content of a website. |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:16 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. It isn't so much the presence of right-wingers as it is simply the presence of political discussion. |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
8. Donate and they'll mostly go away - Poof! (just as if Christine O'Donnell cast a spell on 'em). . . |
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AlabamaLibrul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
10. The prior responses are correct, and I would add that the ads are pay-per-click... n/t |
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
11. Firefox + the free "Ad Block" add-on = no ads at all! |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
13. Here |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
14. $$$$$$ |
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Vickers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
15. What ads? |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 05:15 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. If you want to see the ads, just log off DU and lurk for a while without logging in. n/t |
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