Side panel surprise

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

This morning – after reading about the 2025 issue of ME&W arriving 12 months late, there were adverts for erotic nightware etc in the RH side panel !!

Bob

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

It would seem that the advertising dept have taken to accepting adverts by Google that are featuring Aliexpress and ebay amoung others and go knows what they will pop up as possibly being of interest to readers to wear while tucked up in bed reading their latest issue.

Seems the ELS kits are coming up quite frequently as well a sthe Xuhan carbide cutters that I have found to be quite good. Not sure if the adverts are based on what the viewer has previously looked at, what has been on the site or just random.

Not sure how happy our regular advertisers will be with the likes of Ali coming up?

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I first noticed it while reading the ‘EV charging’ thread and ‘solar slates’ were advertised.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

I must have led a sheltered life in Gooblimey’s view ‘cos I’ve not seen ads for sexy lingerings.

I had though wondered where the rubbish ads for rubbish were coming from.

The side panel on mine, and displaying now, are two copies of what looks like some sort of puzzle peddled by some outfit called “Herowars”, but it gives no clue as to what the childish nonsense is.

I am not going to try to find out either.

Our own trade suppliers must already be suffering from users here promoting Chinese and American on-line “supermarkets” without the advertising department letting Google, which presumably pays more, replace the site-relevant ads with meretricious tripe of no relevance to anyone.

 

(Except those who read ME&W in the boudoir, perhaps.)

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