Food Ads

Ashley777 · 12-09-2010, 01:46 PM

Okay so almost every time I click on something here to read right beside the beginning of the persons post is a rather large picture of either fries, a big fat burger or one of those giant cupcakes with more icing then cupcakes. What on earth is with that? Most of it is for advertising coupons in the city in which i live. Pictures can be a trigger so I often speed read the first few lines of the post or miss it altogether so as not to see the picture.
I tape almost every tv show I watch so am able to skip the ads, cause sometimes late at night the burger just looks real good. I know adverstisers do this at night so we will think oh gee that is what I will have for lunch tomorrow thus planting that thought in our head but even if I accidently see a food ad at night i just close my eyes and if you here it and not see it it doesn't even bother me.
There are so many good tips to combatting temptation. I have a giant food court in my building so I usually walk outside to get to my office. When it is real cold out like -20c or colder i opt to walking thru the building to get to my office. I just would like to win the war more often!

Shannon in ATL · 12-09-2010, 01:51 PM

It is google ads, I see groupon offers and ads for Tivo. Most of the local coupons do have pictures of food, though.

It does make it hard when things pictured are triggers. Maybe you could run an ad blocker add in? is there one that blocks the google ads?

JayEll · 12-09-2010, 02:28 PM

There was a time when you could subscribe to 3FC for a nominal fee--and then you would get no ads. But I don't know whether it's still possible. You can always post about the ads in the Announcements & Forum Help forum--sometimes they don't know what's going up on the board.

Jay

Ashley777 · 12-09-2010, 02:33 PM

good ideas, great thank you!

Eliana · 12-09-2010, 02:45 PM

I hate it when the people IN the show are eating.

Nothing makes me crave pizza or Chinese food like a good television show.

beerab · 12-09-2010, 05:57 PM

Egads I've never noticed them much!

The worst part about those ads though is it's always a THIN person eating that crap. Grrr....

Rosinante · 12-10-2010, 07:04 AM

For a while I kept getting banner ads advertizing all I could eat for £5 in my city..... and the picture was of glazed doughnuts...... I'm not a huge doughnut fan but boy, these looked good!

RoseRodent · 12-10-2010, 07:43 AM

I wasn't sure if I was allowed to say adblockers, since sites support themselves by deriving their income from advertising revenues. It's not really in the spirit of free websites to block the ads, but then again I'm not sure if the ad providers will know that I didn't see them, so hopefully they still pay 3FC.

Another option for ads that you find difficult to block with software blockers is to update your profile to include other trigger words. I was fed up with my disability blog having ads for helping "the disabled" with some kind of sob story so I wrote the word "pharmaceuticals" in one post and the ads changed overnight to ads for medical products. Not sure exactly what 3FCs ad profile is based on, some of it is the data given by your IP address identifying where you are. IP masking and proxy servers can veil where you are so that your offers don't come through for a local restaurant, but it probably still has pictures of food.

It's a fantastic example of the way that the media prays upon us, though, isn't it? See any words to do with dieting and weight loss and you fill the page with food ads in the hope that you have found a captive audience of people who have a weakness around food. It's acceptable when it's done with food, imagine the uproar if they put beer ads on an alcohol addiction support site?

katy trail · 12-10-2010, 09:25 AM

it's not the ads or coupons that get me. i never go anywhere. if i buy something it's from a grocery store. its rare for us to ever bring home soda, chips, donuts. its the stuff i know is ok in moderation. healthy as long as i don't go overboard.
garlic and olive oil

cheese(i recently started liking and buying ff, but it's not always available)

nuts

fruit- there's nothing wrong with eating all the fruit i want. my body's fine with it. but if i don't ration myself sometimes, i'll eat it almost all of it. what about the kids and dad? they want/like/need fruit too!

whole wheat bread, ditto share w/family.

yogurt this is gone in 2 days or less. everyone wants some.

ok so there's some foods i can eat as much as i want, be on plan, and doesn't bother my fam.
greens, salads, lots of other veggies they don't like, most kinds of legumes, anything with more than a few lentils, thats all i can think of. oh, cabbage. they aren't big fans of cabbage.

Samuel · 12-10-2010, 07:08 PM

Hello there any one of you in slimgenics?