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    Shouldn't it be hello little weed . Weeeed?
     
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      I joined Facebook many years ago. I haven't used it for yonks. Anyway, when I joined, I put my date of birth as the first of January for whatever year it was. I kept getting adverts for nappies. Maybe algorithms have a sense of humour:heehee:
       
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        Blobdy blob weed....weeeeed
         
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          It is Google Ads, yes, so it will be having a fairly accurate guess as to where you are.
           
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            I suspected as much. Might even click on some.
             
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                Ladybird4 I'm a gardener. What's your super-power?

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                :sign0016:@Little_Weed
                 
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                  Why @Star gaze Lily would you want to stop them? I'm pretty certain the adverts are paying for the forum's keep, it costs us nothing. TBF it's hardly anything compared to the huge adverts on GW. Or am I misunderstanding you?
                   
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                    @Jenny_Aster No sorry, I don't mean stop all ads. I was just rather concerned that they are so close by.
                    Sorry for any misunderstanding
                     
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                      Yes the advertising goes to keeping the forum going; hosting server space and whatnot. Possibly worth noting no-one here gets paid, everyone helping, contributing, moderating etc is all on a voluntary basis.
                      The advertising algorithms use a mix of witchcraft and chicanery to target adverts related to your online 'life', so if you start searching holidays for example then mysteriously you'll see adverts for holidays appear ... I think you can make it random but you'd have to do an internet search as to how as it's not governed by us.
                       
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                        Sadly not, they are served up by Google Ad services (as far as I know); their ad servers know roughly where you are logging in from and will show ads that it guesses might be relevant.
                         
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                            To get a classier advert choice try googling the current price of a Rolls Royce Phantom, Bollinger by the case and Hotel Chocolat.
                             
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                              Only joking by the way :)
                               
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