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mrkgnao: Attached is an example of what I believe the OP is talking about. It's an ad I got while browsing some other (non pornographic) website. Obviously, to see these kinds of ads you need to disable ad blockers.
Yeah, GOG has always had issues with age inappropriate content not quite being so well filtered. Instead they just geoblock it in certain areas instead of following protocol.

...In spite of being located in an EU memberstate.
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mistycoven: Yeah fair enough, that's not a great look. GOG maybe needs to set a whitelist for what games can appear in those ads, or a blacklist for adult games, whichever.
No one would object to gore and horror games being shown. Not all games on this list are even for adult audiences, some have clearance for 16+, Lula/Wet is a business simulation. I guess, Vampire, Cyberpunk and Baldur's Gate contain some nudity and therefore in the same list.

I find it strange hoewver, that these all have the same theme. Then again I should not be surprised, GOG offered me Alien Isolation Deluxe Edition Upgrade and Agony Unrated edition as similar game to Lego DC Villains Deluxe Edition.
Post edited October 23, 2023 by neumi5694
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mrkgnao: Attached is an example of what I believe the OP is talking about. It's an ad I got while browsing some other (non pornographic) website. Obviously, to see these kinds of ads you need to disable ad blockers.
What an unprofessional low click bait to advertise their website .
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Darvond: Pics or it didn't happen, literally.
Consider using an alternate image host such as a NSFW allowing Discord or...maybe a drive link of some kind.
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mrkgnao: Attached is an example of what I believe the OP is talking about. It's an ad I got while browsing some other (non pornographic) website. Obviously, to see these kinds of ads you need to disable ad blockers.
So... do they directly have anything to do with GOG, other than GOG actually selling those games? Can GOG somehow control that?

For some odd reason, when I visit some normal web sites and discussion forums, I get quite often ads about e.g. dating slavic women (with photos of attractive sexy (slavic?) women), and also quite often ads for sexy leather and latex dresses for women, with photos of busty women with huge behinds crammed into tight dresses.

I just can't understand, why I am seeing them. I don't recall visiting any dating sites for like 15 years (I've been happily married to my wife over 10 years now and have had absolutely no reason to look elsewhere), and no I am not in a market for tight leather or latex dresses for women either. Nor do I really visit any pron sites either, and if I did, I'd probably use some Tor browser in incognito mode or something.

So... why am I seeing such ads? Somehow some ad providers seem to think I am in a market for meeting some slavic women online (so at least they somehow know I am a middle-aged man?) even though I never click those ads. Those sexy clothes ads, I am wondering whether my wife has visited any such sites on her phone because she does like to dress up, and she has used our home wifi for phone while doing it, and hence the whole family is marked as being interested in sexy clothes?

I think I need to start using some serious adblockers because in some discussion forums it is so irritating to see those "meet busty slavic women!" ads all the time, while discussing electric cars or politics. It was funny when I was at work googling for some Linux server administration instructions online, looking with my colleague, and even those Linux sites kept pushing those damn dating and sexy clothes ads to my face.

Between the busty slavic women in tight latex dresses, I read the instructions how to add permanent static routes in Rocky/Alma Linux 9 or how to set up a sftp server in Linux. My colleague sure chuckled.


EDIT: I also find it odd I wouldn't get those similar "GOG busty ladies" ads as in your picture, considering I visit the GOG site quite often with various computers, both from my home and work. Why am I being left out for those GOG ads, and get the slavic dating ads instead?
Post edited October 23, 2023 by timppu
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mrkgnao: Attached is an example of what I believe the OP is talking about. It's an ad I got while browsing some other (non pornographic) website. Obviously, to see these kinds of ads you need to disable ad blockers.
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timppu: So... do they directly have anything to do with GOG, other than GOG actually selling those games? Can GOG somehow control that?

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I'm not sure what it is that you are asking. It's a GOG ad. I'm sure GOG is paying someone somewhere to have these ads shown.

I saw this specific ad on a video game discussion forum, so it was a relevant ad --- certainly more relevant than the steakhouse ads I often get (I am vegan). It's just the game selection shown that is troubling.

In the past month, I have seen these GOG ads at least five times (I usually use ad blockers) --- every time more than half the games displayed were porn games, usually more or less the same ones seen in the attached picture above (if not exactly the same).
Post edited October 23, 2023 by mrkgnao
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mrkgnao: Attached is an example of what I believe the OP is talking about.
If so, then it's much ado about nothing.

Those ads are not pornographic in any way at all whatsoever. There is literally nothing wrong with those ads.
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mrkgnao: Attached is an example of what I believe the OP is talking about.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: If so, then it's much ado about nothing.

Those ads are not pornographic in any way at all whatsoever. There is literally nothing wrong with those ads.
The OP did not say the ads were pornographic. She said they were embarrassing --- I believe they are.
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mrkgnao: I'm not sure what it is that you are asking. It's a GOG ad. I'm sure GOG is paying someone somewhere to have these ads shown.
Mainly asking as I don't know how those online ad companies operate and who does what. But yeah I guess someone at GOG has "designed" that ad and told the ad company "I want you to show this picture of busty ladies to target audiences A, B and C", and it is not some advanced advertisement AI that has gathered those images from GOG pages and shows them to certain audiences, just because GOG has some deal with the said online ad company.

It is still interesting why e.g. I never see that kind of ads, even though I visit GOG quite often. Ie. what is the algorithm that decides when to show e.g. that specific busty ad. Apparently they don't feel I would buy such games from GOG, for some reason. Stupid AI. I still get those date-slavic-ladies ads for some odd reason.

Oh, that reminds me: how come maybe 80% of the ads I see in Youtube are those same fake "Hero Wars/State of Survival/what have you" ads? Are others seeing the same, or have those shit fake game ads just targeted me for some reason?
Post edited October 23, 2023 by timppu
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timppu: So... do they directly have anything to do with GOG, other than GOG actually selling those games? Can GOG somehow control that?
Certainly. They could mark/bury those as the kind of game that shouldn't be off to the advertisers, like I imagine they had to do with Tribal Hunter, a thinly veiled fet game.

Of course, be it on the advertisers to actually obey those hidden tags or requests.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: If so, then it's much ado about nothing.

Those ads are not pornographic in any way at all whatsoever. There is literally nothing wrong with those ads.
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mrkgnao: The OP did not say the ads were pornographic. She said they were embarrassing --- I believe they are.
OP did say she was getting soft porn type game ads. Which is still pornographic.

Now is the ad you posted pornographic? Maybe, idk.

I never got ads like this from GOG. Dose it depend on what website you are visiting?
Post edited October 23, 2023 by Syphon72
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mrkgnao: The OP did not say the ads were pornographic. She said they were embarrassing --- I believe they are.
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Syphon72: OP did say she was getting soft porn type game ads. Which is still pornographic.

Now is the ad you posted pornographic? Maybe, idk.
When someone says that they have seen a porn game ad, it means that the ad advertises a porn game, not that the ad is necessarily pornographic itself. I believe most of the games in the ad are clearly pornographic games (most of them not "soft" at all).

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Syphon72: I never got ads like this from GOG. Dose it depend on what website you are visiting?
No idea. I have an ad blocker on my desktop, so I only see them on my phone and I don't browse a lot on it, certainly not ad-infested websites. I think I saw these ads only on video game websites and forums, but I'm not sure.
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Syphon72: OP did say she was getting soft porn type game ads. Which is still pornographic.

Now is the ad you posted pornographic? Maybe, idk.
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mrkgnao: When someone says that they have seen a porn game ad, it means that the ad advertises a porn game, not that the ad is necessarily pornographic itself. I believe most of the games in the ad are clearly pornographic games (most of them not "soft" at all).

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Syphon72: I never got ads like this from GOG. Dose it depend on what website you are visiting?
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mrkgnao: No idea. I have an ad blocker on my desktop, so I only see them on my phone and I don't browse a lot on it, certainly not ad-infested websites. I think I saw these ads only on video game websites and forums, but I'm not sure.
I agree with you. But I know some people would classify those as pornographic images being advertised, about them being not soft porn.

Well, I would not know, and I'm still traumatized from Steam showing full-blown furry porn, even when I have it filtered. So, I never click on those games after that. lol

Honestly not sure who buys porn games.


Same I only see GOG adds when using YouTube on my phone.
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Syphon72: I agree with you. But I know some people would classify those as pornographic images being advertised, about them being not soft porn.
Well, the images are neither, no matter how some people feel about it.
They do advertise games containing nudity however and in some case games containing porn scenes.


I have never seen an ad popup for GOG, but then again I have add blockers, popup blockers and script blockers installed.

But these advertiser companies try to do their best to determine what the person might be interested in even if you try hard not to give your consent to anything.
When I was looking for a new car and searched for information, I got adds for cars all the time. Of course sometimes they are quite off the track. I bought Jagged Alliance 3 in the special edition (looks like some sort of survival kit) and got adds for paramilitary outdoor equipment. My girlfriend bought an umbrella and got adds for latex costumes.