{"id":1464,"date":"2010-01-26T19:30:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2010-01-26T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:43:15","slug":"pointless-advert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/pointless-advert\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointless advert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can spot what I find annoying about the following screenshot of an advert I keep seeing whilst browsing around, then you are fabulously geeky (like me):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Screenshot_ChromeAdvert.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Screenshot_ChromeAdvert.png?resize=213%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot of Google Chrome advert\" title=\"Screenshot of Google Chrome advert\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Screenshot_ChromeAdvert.png?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Screenshot_ChromeAdvert.png?w=382&amp;ssl=1 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google is trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teaching_grandmother_to_suck_eggs\">teach me to suck eggs<\/a>. They obviously know what Operating system I&#8217;m using so I thought they would be clever enough to detect what browser I&#8217;m using and serve me something more targeted? What scares me more is that I suspect they are actually paying someone for me to see that advert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can spot what I find annoying about the following screenshot of an advert I keep seeing whilst browsing around, then you are fabulously geeky (like me): Google is trying to teach me to suck eggs. They obviously know what Operating system I&#8217;m using so I thought they would be clever enough to detect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46,19,32],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-annoying","tag-google","tag-linux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}