Chess.com: A Family-Friendly Site?

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boy do i sound like a salesman

Ah, I see. So the ad network chooses what ads are displayed. Then I guess the lonely nerds should thank the ad network. ;P

rofl This way the lonely nerds can just come to this thread - no more need to refresh in hopes of certain ads! ;D

There is nothing wrong with "interacial dating" ad, it's far from pornographic.  The other ad isn't remotely pornographic either; so there is a wee bit of nudity but big deal and who cares? The problem is when people mythologise nudity to children as some kind of daemon that devours their self esteem; not the nudity itself.

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You're not getting my point - if you are that hypersensitive on behalf of your poor bubble enclosed children, nowhere online is 'safe'.

They analyse all available information on your computer for the closest available match to your tastes, thus if you regularly look use search terms such as 'interracial' and 'slim/skinny', that would give the same intelli-ad.  Can't think what you'd have been looking at with those search criteria though.

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

I'm too ignorant to know if this is accurate or not, but, if it is, I love the irony.

Whew. I was wondering when someone was going to chime in and remind the hyper-sensitive-to-the-natural-human-form Yanks that not all the world believes that the slightest glimpse of human flesh is porn. The very idea of that diet ad being suspect is itself suspect. The human stomach and bottom, male and female, are regularly seen in soap ads or holiday ads for time in Ibiza... and diet ads... not overly worrying.

As for the dating ad, well dating ads in themselves are generally harmless (I assume most Western children know that people date) -- but there is actually a problem, in my opinion, with it being "interracial" (this from an interracial person), because of the way it promotes interracial dating like it were a fetish rather than just part of life. "Whew hoo [insert bells & whistles] Date a black gal here, Date an Asian gal there...." ew. But most of that would fly above children's heads... the images in the ads are nothing of concern.

Except in many cases it's the ad network that is generating the cookies.  So if you go on multiple sites with that ad network, they know more and more about the types of things you are interested in.

This isn't game analysis. Use the right forum.

Wow!  A rational, considered, and polite post in this forum!  Amazing!

This gives me a good idea. There are a few chess magazines out there, but how many really good chess nudie mags are out there on the market? Not many. Probably none.

Look, all I am saying is that if you want chess to be more popular, start linking it up with nudity.

Nude Chess Magazine, coming to a news-stand near you in 2010.

No-script for firefox is your friend. Block the ads if they bother you.

There's plenty of stuff worse than this for children on prime time TV, at least in the U.S.

thank you b97, just what i was getting at

to get rid of the ads switch to firefox, the ultimate browsing experience ever!

How annoying to try to click on the latest game analysis thread and get this crudge... OP is going on the "ignore" list.

So many angry posts, so little time!

AMcHarg: Originally, I was not objecting to the ads, but that chess.com claims to be a family-friendly site and censors other parts of the site, but allows these types of inappropriate (For a family site) ads to be displayed. I've now been enlightened; chess.com has no control over what ads are displayed.

Beelzebubble666: Re: Post #36 - I don't have kids. I was saying that these ads would not be appropriate for children, not my children. Re: Post #37 - I don't understand how these things work, but I really don't know why anything on my computer would prompt an ad like this. :S

JG27Pyth: Re: Post #41 - It was a joke. If you really need me to talk you through it, I will. But try to figure it out on your own. Re: Post #50 - I love you too.

RainbowRising: Whatever you want to tell yourself. :)

jamesjddong: Then I should say, "Children, please read on," right?

eddiewsox: Yes, there is. But the networks aren't saying "This is a family-friendly TV station."

namdude: I once heard a story about a certain pot who called a certain kettle a certain something . . . ;D

And that's it!

this thread rules...

Ginatloser is... like...  golden!

i love this defense for "bad" stuff.

 You're right - just because worse can be seen somewhere else, it doesn't make something bad good.