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Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites
teh31337one writes "Google is refusing to advertise CougarLife, a dating site for mature women looking for younger men. However, they continue to accept sites for mature men seeking young women. According to the New York Times, CougarLife.com had been paying Google $100,000 a month since October. The Mountain View company has now cancelled the contract, saying that the dating site is 'nonfamily safe.'"
Please drill down into TFA and tell me if this is a slashvertisment for CougarLife, an unrelated violation of googles TOS, or really google being evil so I can be outraged accordingly.
Once again, another story that has NO impact on the readers of /. Neither "hot older women" nor "cute young men" can be found here. Thanks for reminding us you jerk!
If would be a different story however, if google had banned a site for women seeking basement dwelling fat people.
...so there may be a valid reason for closely examining them...
I'll get right on it!
I just searched for some sweet cougar action, and google was happy to advertise appropriately. CougarLife.com, however, comes up a fair amount in spam, and isn't advertised.
For their new Cougar Life, the first cereal to stay completely dry in milk.
The problem is that the two are not often compatible. The site for older men trolling for younger women likely intentionally does some obfuscation to hide what they are after. The cougar site, however, is relatively unambiguous by name. In the same light we seldom see political advertising that pushes facts, most political ads (the ones on slashdot being excellent examples) instead push rumors, half-truths, and outright lies.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Google has simply labelled "cougar" to be an adult term, and adult ads are not allowed on its network. Yet other ads with the same or even stronger adult theme are allowed. The same company has a site for older men seeking younger women, and that one is allowed.
So it seems Google is being very sexist about it. Probably not a high level decision, just someone who let his/her own personal views put a word on the banned word list. I don't think Google really wants to ban all the adult themed ads, it is a lot of money they would be throwing away. 100k in advertising for one site only. Even Google is going to feel it if its puritans stance is now going to force it to block all the sites aimed at men as well.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
A coupling of an older man with a younger woman has a greater chance of bearing children than that of an older woman and a younger man.
It seems to me that the Cougar scenario contains more safety from creating a Family than the other
This is just a tactical move in Google's spat with Apple. They're banning the term "Cougar" before Apple can use it as the name of its next OS X release.
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why do we always need to self-censor? Who said the web needs to be "family safe"? Why are companies voluntarily following 1950's morality codes that the FCC imposes on broadcasters?
Why do many neighborhood grocery stores not stock porn magazines? Who says grocery stores should be "family safe"? Why do the owners voluntarily follow 1950s morality codes?
Because it's their damn store, and they don't want to. They don't like it, they don't want to see it, and they don't want to deal with the people who supply it.
Freedom includes the freedom to sell what you want, not just buy what you want.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Hand in the bush, and all that.
There, fixed for ya.
And what happens when they're the only store in town, or when all the stores adopt the same policy?
Then you open up your own store and cater to the neglected demand.
Simple as that.
No one can force me to sell anything in my store I do not want to sell.
I can't stop you from setting up a store down the street to sell it, but I can keep it off my shelves.
In contrast, an older man dating a younger woman is much more likely to end up in a relationship or marriage, and while an older man actively looking for a younger woman is clearly looking to hook up as well, he is also much more likely to be looking for something more substantial, which means he's in a position to do so - meaning, not married and not in a situation where the outcome of the services provided by [his dating site of choice] will be a threat to his family.
I have several friends who are what is euphemistically known as escorts, and who have worked with dating sites of the Sugar Daddy sort. They have met many men who are very willing to engage in the transactions such sites facilitate, and they have all been married. According to one friend, who has made a tidy high-five-figure income doing this for several years as she works her way through college, at least 80% of the men on sugardaddy sites are married and looking for multiple somethings on the side, preferably multiple somethings at the same time.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.