EDIT: CHILDREN, PLEASE KEEP READING!! THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER THAT NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT TO YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION!!! 

I know that chess.com is a "family-friendly site." I've made another forum topic about this, but I titled it randomly and as a consequence, this important matter could not be brought to the community's attention.

The matter I am talking about is chess.com's claims and the actual content displayed on the site. While simply trying to play some chess, I came across the following ad:

If you don't know what I was talking about, I was talking about . . .

That guy and girl. I should make it clear that I have nothing against interracial relationships, but this is just plain CREEPY!!!!!! I have to see some scary guy leering at some random girl while simply attempting to play chess. In fact, to me, this ad looked more like:

I've been so haunted by this ad that I had a dream (No, NIGHTMARE!!!) in which I saw:

Yeah. I think you'd be creeped out too.

Now today, I see an ad that I don't mind AS much - but it's still not faithful to chess.com's "family-friendly" promise:

Erik, I am sure that some of the lonely chess nerds on this site are thankful to you for giving them some arse to look at while it's not their move. I just think that these ads aren't appropriate for a "family-friendly" site.

Which brings me to my point: Is chess.com a family-friendly site or isn't it? I'm fine either way, but I think that one should be chosen. It's like when a father tells his kid the kid can get an ice cream cone and the mother says no. Who do you believe?

P.S. I found the "Game Analysis" Forum to be most fitting for this thread. ;D

*clears throat*

hmm theres something called... Friendly site..

when... you buy.. MEMBERSHIP!

Hahahahahahahahaha. I think on the whole that this is serious, but it's very funny. I actually think that it is a pretty big issue, and I don't think that I'd want my (hypothetical, young-aged) children on the site, expecially the forums, but, considering what gets said in chats, really playing either. These advertisements don't help either, although (disappointingly) it seems that you can't go very many places at all these days without seeing those kinds of ads.

So, sadly, my answer is "No, it isn't a family site"

Yes, I know. I'm a useless pile of crap because I don't pay. I have my reasons: 1) I'm spend too much time here already. With the ability to do more, it would be ridiculous 2) Can't afford it at the moment. Believe me, I wish I could upgrade.

But the point here is that chess.com doesn't say that you have to buy a membership for it to be a family-friendly site. They say it is regardless. I'm wondering what the real deal is.

lol  RainbowRising's post is, "You're such a twat."

I think you have your anwser.

inapporiate

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Yeah, this is kind of a joke. I personally don't really care, but I'm saying that if I were a ten year old looking to play chess, I might not be mature enough to see these ads.

I agree with you on the chat thing and that these ads are everywhere. Society's changing, there's nothing more to it.

Of course it's inappropriate!!! Is that not exactly what I said!?!?! =D

As TheGrobe said on the old forum that was poorly titled, "The ad probably served up based on RainbowRising's charming contribution to that thread."

I agree, these ads just distract me and make me lose all of my games.  Chess.com needs to cut down on the damn pornography and find sponsors that actually fight for a good cause.  Find some MMOG's to advertise or something.  That is my opinion.

I saw those, but now I have membership....lol good point about the friendly part

The ads served up are usually unique to each user and are based on their own individual web caches and browsing histories.

I'm pretty sure that they're not able to see what your browsing history etc. is.  They're generally served up based on the context of the page that is currently being viewed.

Cookies and spyware and I am 100% positive this is used on the adverts here, as it is on every large commercially successful web site.

It has nothing to do with this site and I am not saying it is their policy, because it is not.  I am saying they cannot control what the portal is used for and that the people using the ad portal are able to use cookies and spyware in order to tailor ads to individual users.  And they do this as it is SOP for sites such as this one.

Cookies are generally only visible to the site that created them and I'm doubtful about the role of spy-ware in selecting your ads.  I'm pretty sure that the ad selection process is simply based on keyword searches from the page they're served up on.

Language, please.  There might be children present.

I am 100% on the ad spyware.

I have cleaned my registry and they have been numerous things that have come form ads on this site, probably loaded up I upgraded membership.

AVG continues to warn of malicious scipts if I log-out and come to the site as a non-member.  It is picking up scripts in the ads.

It is not just about reading ones PC, it is also about reading one's browsing history, which is also stored outside the PC on remote servers. Everyone's web histories are very available if one knows where to look.

I didn't see anything wrong with that ad, but of course if anyone actually clicked on it, it might be different than the PG rated ad might indicate. I think people should be more concerned with the garbage talk going on in the chat room than any ads they might see. 

Pyramid schemes promising stupid people easy money, adult 'dating' sites promising ugly people poon, bogus diets promising fatties they can lose weight without doing the obvious, that is what forms the the bulk of available online advertising revenue.  Not much anyone can do about it short of rounding up all the ugly fat stupid people into death camps.

Join up or put up with the same advertising you see everywhere else basically, if you don't want kids to see such tame adverts as that, you really don't want them online at all.