Publishers do have the ability to block ads from businesses they choose, so the fact that they are allowing that type of ad to come up is pretty funny.OneGun wrote:
You're right. I did visit the NRA website recently to purchase a 3-year renewal of my NRA membership. Nonetheless, I still found it humorous that there was a NRA Carry Guard ad on an anti-gun article.
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- Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:54 pm
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Re: Houston Chronicle - Packing a gun at your business sends the wrong message
- Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:24 pm
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Re: Houston Chronicle - Packing a gun at your business sends the wrong message
That's a targeted ad based on your browsing history. It was purchased "programmatically" and directed at you in miliseconds as the page loaded because you've been to their website, or a similar one. It wasn't sold to the NRA by the publisher. If you were researching baby formula in the last 2 days it would have likely been for diapers.OneGun wrote:
However, what I found most interesting is the following. The article also had an advertisement for NRA Carry Guard!
It could have also been what they call a contextual ad. Google's supercomputers crawling the web and put that ad there because of the content of the story...picked up on "Concealed Handgun License" in the text.