Was This a Badly Placed Internet Advert?
I usually get notification of newspaper polls on the death penalty from a list I belong to on the Internet. This was the latest request I got.
Please help turn this poll around. Thanks! http://www.ydr.com/local It’s down on the left.
I voted appropriately. The paper incidentally is the York Daily Record.
But imagine my surprise that the placed adverts on the site were for theTrainLine.com, who I’ve recently used to buy a ticket on East Coast to York. And they were trying to sell me a ticket to York! Obviously, there’s an Atlantic Tunnel I don’t know about.
Seriously though, the advertising system was probably looking at my cookies and made an appropriate decision.
I’m not particularly bothered, but I can see that some people will be!
I hope everybody who reads this votes using the link.
–abe
The Anonymous Widower 
I did indeed go and vote that I dont agree with the death penalty – worries me that just over 50% of people voting do agree with it. I wonder if they would be as in favour if it was one of their relatives sentenced to death.
The advert on my page was for Lakeland, the store which is full of indispensible gadgets which you didnt know you couldnt live without until you saw them in the store.
Comment by liz | January 23, 2011 |