Not going to cry about ads on the site, they pay the bills and are fairly innocuous, but I think it's a little off to advertise 18-27 year old women available to date on a forum about youth sports for young women.
If it's possible to filter out certain categories of ads, I think it would be better.
The moderators keep telling us that the ads are based on browser history, but I think that is a line of BS that the company placing the ad fed them...
Actually not BS. Facebook was really one of the big pioneers of "contextual advertising." Google does a lot of it too. When you go to different websites, pay attention to what pops on the side.
I know some DFP members here are going this find this hard to believe, but I am certain that NO ONE has ever search for Chinese or Russian girlfriends on this computer....
That one made me laugh.
It's all about the algorithms the ad services use. Some are better than others. The better ones will show you reasonable content. The lesser ones can be pretty random. Maybe you read an article about Putin, and then look up something about NPF and they somehow put it together that you are interested in Russians and you are interested in women so you must be interested in Russian women. I see enough ads here that at least make some sense for me that I doubt they're totally random. That just wouldn't make sense in the pay-per-click world we live in.
Or that you spend all day thinking about softball, your wife left you last month and you did not notice, so you need a social life - "Hey check out these lonely women."