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A. I'm not defending the web advertisers. Just stating how they work.

B. You admit you do go gaming on your work computer. So you game advertisements. Just so happens, that maybe the most advertised game, uses ads with lots of cleavage and suggestive innuendos. That doesn't mean you had to have porn on your browsing history to see these types of ads.

C. Someone in your office, may visit a dating site, so then again you get a popular advertisement that uses lewd/suggestive ads. Again it doesn't mean you've been looking at porn.

Thats all I'm saying. I'm not defending anyone or attacking anyone.

plus 1!

Well, you are to some degree interested in mmorpgs and financial stuff, since this is a (economics) management game and a mmo..., just not an rpg. that´s not THAT far off, isn´t it? And if you don´t have any information about the guy you´re trying to hit him with SOMETHING, and if all you know is that he´s (a) playing online games and (b) playing a management game, I can tell you where they are coming from.

Wolph - why do you take everything so personal? Honestly, it´s quite common sense that public computers actually consume PLENTY porn, and if you´re one of many users, the theory that the history of your system leads to the advertisements you´re getting is by no means a personal attack against you. It´s just some kind of explanation, which may help you solve your problem: try to clean as much history (cache, cookies, maybe switch URL if you have the power to do so) as you can get your hands on, and with some (solid) possibility you might see less raunchy advertising.

Just for everyones info, i found out some info regarding the 'personalised' advertisments that you get and how to disable it.
The info is more with regards to Adobe Flash, but im sure this is the same as other applications.

If your on Windows, go to Control Panal - Flash Player
Then click on the Storage tab. (it might look different if ur using Windows 7 or something like that . im on an XP computer at the moment).
Just have a read of that tab before going any further. It says "Local storage may be used by websites to save data about this computer's use of Flash Player, such as viewing history, game progress, saved work, preferences, or data that identifies this computer."

Scary!
Ok go and hit the Local Storage Settings by Site button.
This will list the sites that you have previously visited which have stored something on ur PC.
Im not going tell u to delete stuff, because that would be bad practice on my behalf but go and do some research on the topic, find out what the impacts are if you disable/delete and make ur own choice. Also google Flash cookies, some interesting articles on that.

Im guessing that this is an example of how locally stored information can be used to customize advertisments.

If there is real porn, follow Marin's indications.

So you wont change anything about it, say it right away...

What is wrong with porn?
Who didn't dream about their hot teacher when we were kids..

The GM's will not change anything. There.

i am going t close this, since it seems to be all about the surfing behaviour of some user recently.

If an add is to inapproprate for the game, we know what to to(send Marin a mail, since a post here would be just free ad for this company), so this thread isn't needed anymore.