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On YWN homepage, there is an advertisement for ladies’ tights and socks, accompanied by a picture of an attractive young woman. Is this appropriate for a website like YWN, which is also used by men? And in the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah, no less?
This ad has never been served to me.
I don’t know what you’ve been searching and viewing, but it might be related.
Try clearing cache and cookies?Where can I find the picture please
It’s not a problem until you address it. Who knows how many people looked for that ad now that you mentioned it.
ads are often personalized based on your web browsing history – by the ad agency, not YWN.
So, either your female family members are shopping for socks on the same computer or your own browsing history makes the ad software think that you might be interested in those pictures. In the latter case, something to think about during asara yomei teshuva.
Some Jewish web sites, whose names I will not mention,
to avoid Lashon HaRa, sell segulot or yeshuot or refuot,
in exchange for donations or purchasing merchandise.Two quick examples:
[1] Rabbi _______ sells “a rare blessing”
“To be signed on Yom Kippur for a revealed miracle!”
and “a year in which they will see a visible miracle!”If this “rare blessing” does not work,
can the donor get his money back?[2] One organization sells “a silver knife with a personal inscription”
as “a segulah for abundant parnassah”.If this segulah does not work,
can the donor return the knife and get his money back?One final question: If these segulot are so powerful,
then why do the people who sell them need donations?definitely not.
You are totally right i thought of this many times myself….
YWN should really take it down…Absolutely treif.
Gedol Hador:
That particular ad seemed fairly small on my screen, not a full-page banner, so I can understand why they might not have realized it’s an issue. But I agree that such an ad has no place on a site targeted to men (and women).Gedol: If you were ready to pay a nominal monthly fee to access the site, perhaps the publishers wouldn’t need to run ads with pictures of varbeshe socks that you find so offensive and threatening to your yetzer harah.
I have found them disappointingly innapropriate. I was very surprised to see them.
The ad is back!!!!
But relax on the attractive woman, it’s like a 10 year old girlI just saw the ad. It is inappropriate for a frum site. But if it’s a jewish-owned business somehow it’s kashered.
I am getting only apartment ads, is something wrong with me?!
I love how the original replies “knew 100%” that the ads were from google with what someone on the computer was searching for
This obviously isn’t true (my phone that’s whitelisted gets it too)
If you’re worried about non tzniyusdike pictures, you shouldn’t be on the Internet. It’s like kvetching that you’re trying to walk down the street but cars keep getting in your way.
If you are worried about seeing inappropriate things but ABSOLUTELY need the Internet, the TechLoq filter blocks all pictures of people (and reads all your passwords, but that’s another story for another time).
There are ads on YWN home page? I mean other than the ones for magical knives and such?
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE! YWN SHOULD TAKE DOWN EVERY SINGLE AD IN FACT!
An advertisement for ladies’ tights and socks, is a big segula to want to buy them. 🙂
Use an ad blocker.
> ladies’ tights and socks,
indeed, you are supposed to make simcha for the female side of your household, that is clothing and jewelry. For now you are getting socks based on your IRS filings (sold to advertisers by HR Block) or EBT payments (sold by Wholefoods). When AI finds out what your undeclared income is, you’ll start getting ads for jewelry like the rest of us.
come on
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