Check this awesome add I got on giantbomb

I am not offended or anything, but it's amusing seeing stuff like this.

I dont know what else to say, this thread may be locked because I cant think of enough stuff to write to warrant a discussion, but just though I'll share this.

I'll discuss that you should have clicked it, and see where your new wantings take you..

Obviously her name is Minerva.

No porn tabs and you're seeing advertisements? Are you over 40?

I like how Patrick post all these feminist articles then ads like that pop up.

Jesus! White background! Ew

@toiletbob said:

The Editorial staff don't have complete control over what ads show up on the site.

Dude, I have seen worse then that on this website...and it sucks.

The grossest.

Should get @rorie in here, as he might be able to do something to have that ad taken out of circulation for the site.

"ad", isn't short for "addvert"

Good stuff.

Ad not add

@alternate said:

But "add" is?

On topic, I don't understand what the advertiser is getting from running that ad, who the fuck would ever click that? You are paying for impressions here, and that ad conveys nothing.

@alternate: It is. Unless you meant that "add" isn't the abbreviated form of advertisement.

Yeah, Patrick's such a hypocrite. Designing that ad himself and selling it to CBSi just so it could show up on his own website. The Nerve!

I'm sure there are quite a lot of people who would instinctively click that ad.

Are you saying that her anus is a spacious recreation room?

I studied marketing in university for a couple years and they really encourage stereotyping, racism, sexism and ageism. It's their bread and butter. It's not surprising for these types of ads to be targeted towards the Giant Bomb demographic.

The bastard has been playing us all along...

Kleptok you sly motherfucker! YOU PRESS SNEAK FUCK!

Well there you go. IF you ad-block, you'll never get to spank it.

GiantBomb incentives. They know what they're doing......

Yeah, hearing Jeff say that he has no way of controlling what ads go up on the site, he can only get them pulled after the fact made me really sad. I didn't really expect anything else, but still a though thing to hear from the man himself.

That's the best part, man. The irony is so delicious.

I'm going to complain, I find that as a premium member I should also be able to spank that.

the only ads im seeing are mostly the warped tour UK adverts, which annoys me only because its advertising that event and I havent got my ticket yet. That and a questionable one below this text box about a "zip extractor" with a handy giant sized download button

II think there is a more direct link to what Alex said during an Bombin the A.M which was basically don't use on Ad-block on sites you want to support E.G Giant Bomb.

Hey we want to support....we just hate stupid adverts...E.G this one.

Doesn't matter to me in this case as I am a premium, how ever outside of GB I am not and so many stupid adverts....I am just tired of it thats why I block them.

At the same time a webcomic said much the same and I went "ok Ill do it." what I saw was 6 ad's of stupid and one was a badly animated British Commando popping his head up from water to tell me only 99.9% of applicants don't become Commandos...join today at Army recruitment. I went nope and switched ADblock back on.

We can always tell this to @rorie or @jeff if they can do something about it.

@akyho: I know what you mean, I tried it on Twitch but it would show an ad every 2 minutes, so back to AdBlock on. Advertisers really should learn to make simple classy ads.

I wonder if that add might be related to your cookies? If so somebody's been going down to the red light district of the net.

Google AdSense at work. Ads tailored to you based on your browsing history. Use incognito mode in the future broski.

@subjugation: exactly.

@raethen: @gaspower: @andreii: Sorry I didn't see this earlier. I can always get ads taken down when they're dumb or interfering with page loads, etc. Is this one still popping up?

cc: @andreii

Yep, pretty much these can affect what ads you see. Like for me, I logged out and then went to a page with ads, refreshed about 15-20 times or so and mostly got the following: T-mobile, insurance/medical related ads, EVE Online expansion, and car ads. None of them had anything resembling/similar to what you screen capped.

(cc: @rorie)

And this is why I use adblock, so I don't have to deal with this garbage.

And that's why I subscribe, so I don't have to deal with this garbage.

You should come over to Premium Land, it's awesome over here..

Anyone who has worked in the media knows that advertising never has the last say of what goes on editorial pages. I'm not saying this was approved by them, but fuck they own the site, they should controlthis shit.

O the promises they once made that it would never become this...

@gkhan: @newmarcom: These cats know what's what. :3

Also not living in the U.S. helped immeasurably with not seeing a majority of ads, back in the Whiskey Media days. I think the only thing I'd see when not logged in was the occasional site re-skin.

Just dropping by to congratulate you on listening to Voicians.

Yeah, and look how that turned out. The site got sold. Them bones ain't going to make themselves, holmes!

Anyway, there have always been ads on the site. At one point we even had sponsored quests. All that's changed is that the ads are now more consistent and there is less control over what they are. However, if they are reported as inappropriate, the staff can have them removed.

For a site to have complete control over the ads they show is both a rare and privileged position. The content on Giant Bomb isn't the bullshit sensationalist nonsense or click-traps that dictate the ridiculous traffic of IGN and Kotaku, so they don't have that luxury of being able to pick and choose. That's the price. All things considered, it could be a hell of a lot worse.

Enough people.

well a simple classy ad wont stick in your mind and be assigned to a specific emotion. These ads that anger you stick in your mind better then some classy ad you will most likely forget in a few secs. The problem for ad developers is that we learned to fight back.

Back in the days before Dvr, there was no choice but to wait. And on the occasions where I had recorded the show I wanted to see, I took SOOOO much pleasure in fast forwarding the ads. As soon as I could I opted out, and I was not aware of how angry I was at ads either until the opportunity presented itself.

A) You should have followed up your post with screenshots of where that Ad took you. (Because we all know you clicked it.)

B) This reminded me to whitelist Giantbomb.com in ABP

So, thanks for B I guess.

I wish I got ads like that, not because I'm into that.. Giantbomb ads just seems to be cool.
I don't get ads at all, even when I turn off adblock or use chrome.. not a single ad on giantbomb for some reason.

Lots of these ads are based on what you look at, the tabs don't have to be open for that. I was shopping around looking at whats on sale at the supermarket and I get ads for cheerios and gasoline right now. This guy, obviously looking at something raunchy. Want ads like that to go away, stop looking at porn before you look at Giant Bomb.

uuhhh what?

@gkhan: @newmarcom: I don't earn enough money to waste it on a subscription that's only use is to codify my community superiority and erect an illusory pedestal to condescend from.