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21. You mean you're just now noticing the ads don't necessarily match the site content?

Did you miss all the "I'm a Morm0n" adds during Romeny's run for President.

The ads are often "sold" in bulk as revenue to the site. The sites don't really get to pick and choose which ads out of the bulk adds they get paid to run on their site.

As was also mentioned, Google has a lot to do with which ads are presented to you as a result of your search history and site-visit history.

It's not "crazy" it's the way the web works.

I'm sure that people at Free Republic or Redstate get pissed when they see automatic banner ads on those sites that are completely outside what would be content or opinion on their sites.

This comes up over and over again here and elsewhere. The right thing to do is be happy the ads are showing up here paying for DU and not having any real marketing effect. In other words, when the ads show up here it's a waste of those organizations' advertising dollars.