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Is the Insider pro Obama? I see an AD on your web page and I think it is inappropriate and disgusting.
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I saw a JC Penny ad I thought was inappropriate and disgusting too! I'm pro Dillards!

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10 months ago

ejhou65 said...
Is the Insider pro Obama? I see an AD on your web page and I think it is inappropriate and disgusting.

Oh good grief, I don’t even notice ads on web sites I visit because I only focus on the information that brought be there in the first place.
I am set up in such a way that I see NO ads on this site at all. So put a little work into you system and lower your blood pressure.
Next people are so over sensitive and over judgmental in our country today. We live in a country of diverse people and opinions. So just get over it.
Additional, this post is not appropriate for this board.
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10 months ago

I would guess this was the poster's way of injecting a political comment of his own with no other intent. This is deceptive political advertising on the part of the poster and is done all the time now. They think other people are too stupid to know what they are doing.
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He needs to join his neo -nazi buddies on say Fox news
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10 months ago

I am not that naive and you can read it anyway you desire and since you were wondering and so there is no mistake, I have no love for Obama or his policies. I had a legitimate question which simply asked if the Insider was pro Obama? If so, that might dictate whether or not I continue paying for their service; a right which I hope to retain in a supposedly free USA. This is a service I subscribe to for information about OU but when I see political ads I feel obligated to respond.
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ejhou65 said...
I am not that naive and you can read it anyway you desire and since you were wondering and so there is no mistake, I have no love for Obama or his policies. I had a legitimate question which simply asked if the Insider was pro Obama? If so, that might dictate whether or not I continue paying for their service; a right which I hope to retain in a supposedly free USA. This is a service I subscribe to for information about OU but when I see political ads I feel obligated to respond.

Fair enough. But the explanation is simple and already provided in this thread.
OUI has ZERO control over ads. The infrastructure is owned and operated by 247 sports. 247 sports gets paid a fee by GOOGLE to place ads on all of its websites. Google selects the ads for each viewer individually based on what it perceives your interests to be based on your prior viewing habits it collects through its other services and the cookies installed on your machine.
If you wanted to "vote with your feet", the proper target isn't OUI. It would be either 1) stop viewing political websites on the web, 2) install an ad blocker, 3) stop visiting sites that use cookie-based advertising (which is probably almost every site on the internet).
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So you've made your point...you don't believe anyone but your candidate should have the right to advertise and you will be punitive and small should they exercise their right. Move on already instead of pontificating. We will all miss you and your two non political posts every two years (neither one actually relating to sports even).

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ejhou65 said...
I have no love for Obama or his policies. I had a legitimate question which simply asked if the Insider was pro Obama? If so, that might dictate whether or not I continue paying for their service; a right which I hope to retain in a supposedly free USA. This is a service I subscribe to for information about OU but when I see political ads I feel obligated to respond.

If your real objective was to find out the political preferences of this boards staff then a private message inquiry to that effect makes sense. Your decision to make a public statement on a sports discussion board make your question both illegitimate and inappropriate.
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I have no problems with them having people paying them to advertise, as long as it is not immoral. I can ignore adds pretty easy. I see adds for a lot of things that I don't care for, or am not interested in all the time. We need to be a lot less sensitive.
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Is the Insider pro Obama? I see an AD on your web page and I think it is inappropriate and disgusting.

ADBLOCK.com works for me!!!
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kwest2 said...
Fair enough. But the explanation is simple and already provided in this thread.
OUI has ZERO control over ads. The infrastructure is owned and operated by 247 sports. 247 sports gets paid a fee by GOOGLE to place ads on all of its websites. Google selects the ads for each viewer individually based on what it perceives your interests to be based on your prior viewing habits it collects through its other services and the cookies installed on your machine.
If you wanted to "vote with your feet", the proper target isn't OUI. It would be either 1) stop viewing political websites on the web, 2) install an ad blocker, 3) stop visiting sites that use cookie-based advertising (which is probably almost every site on the internet).

4) Dump or disable your cookies....
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.........when I see political ads I feel obligated to respond.

If that's the case you must be a very busy man responding to each and every political ad you see.

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He needs to join his neo -nazi buddies on say Fox news

LOL @ this tool's post...
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10 months ago

This thread is a good study in why there should be no political discussion allowed on this board.
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10 months ago

Although I would assume that staff members have an opinion, we are not pro politics. We're an OU sports site. In my 12 years here I have never heard anyone on the staff discuss politics, or have been directed to ever mention politics in any form or fashion.
It is true that your interests are reflected in the ads you see. We have NOTHING to do with what is on your screen in the ad box.
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"O"CLUB'64 said...
ADBLOCK.com works for me!!!

Thanks Oclub! I just installed it and it works.
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