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[Carmen Winstead]

I just noticed two ads while browsing through the forum which I never got before on any other website and well, it surprised me a bit to say the least.
The ads are for the far-right party AfD which will be running in the upcoming German federal election here in Germany on the 23rd of February.
Getting those ads from my own algorithm wouldn't make much sense for me because I definitely do not belong in their demographics and I also don't visit or consume content on other pages with any right-leaning content or anything like that.
So I wondered if GAF is the reason I got those ads because this forum definitely is anything but a leftist forum and that my visits on GAF and being a German just lets the algorithm assume I tend to be right-wing with my views.

I've been lurking for around 10 years in this forum and this has been the first time I've ever come across an advertisement for an election in Germany while just browsing casually, I never got any ads for elections before on any other page, let alone AfD ads.
I know political discussions should stay minimised in this forum and I'm not trying to start a debate whether which party should win the next election or who I best see fit, it just caught me off guard and I wanted to know if any other members from Germany got any kind of election advertising while browsing through GAF, maybe even for some other parties?

Spoiler: The ads:

 

[chakadave]

what is the concern?

I'd say it is targetd to young males. They are leaning conservative.
I don't know what you mean by "far right". The center and Left have gone "far Left" decades ago and and now everything even slight right is "far right".
Orange man is barely a conservative 20 years ago.

 

[TommyCronin6969]

what is the concern?

I'd say it is targetd to young males. They are leaning conservative.
I don't know what you mean by "far right". The center and Left have gone "far Left" decades ago and and now everything even slight right is "far right".
Orange man is barely a conservative 20 years ago.

It's a political ad on a website that does everything it can to move away from politics?

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

it’s not a gaf thing, world is leaning right rn

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

It's a political ad on a website that does everything it can to move away from politics?

What are you talking about? We literally several trump and musk threads every day it seems

 

[TommyCronin6969]

What are you talking about? We literally several trump and musk threads every day it seems

I barely see them or even any if all. Could they be hidden from showing up or some reason I don't think I've disabled anything like that.

 

[HoodWinked]

Ads by Google. You can click that for more info. This site doesn't really control the ads, its based on your traffic. Also if the ad is target you and you're not voting for them then they actually hit the bullseye on which demographic that they're trying to flip.

 

[IDKFA]

I just noticed two ads while browsing through the forum which I never got before on any other website and well, it surprised me a bit to say the least.
The ads are for the far-right party AfD which will be running in the upcoming German federal election here in Germany on the 23rd of February.
Getting those ads from my own algorithm wouldn't make much sense for me because I definitely do not belong in their demographics and I also don't visit or consume content on other pages with any right-leaning content or anything like that.
So I wondered if GAF is the reason I got those ads because this forum definitely is anything but a leftist forum and that my visits on GAF and being a German just lets the algorithm assume I tend to be right-wing with my views.

I've been lurking for around 10 years in this forum and this has been the first time I've ever come across an advertisement for an election in Germany while just browsing casually, I never got any ads for elections before on any other page, let alone AfD ads.
I know political discussions should stay minimised in this forum and I'm not trying to start a debate whether which party should win the next election or who I best see fit, it just caught me off guard and I wanted to know if any other members from Germany got any kind of election advertising while browsing through GAF, maybe even for some other parties?

Spoiler: The ads:

You've either been to their website, or you've been searching them on your browser. At least looking up a lot of politics anyway.

That's how ads work here. They're based on what you've been looking up online.

 

[YCoCg]

I don't know what you mean by "far right".

If you ask AI's they state that NeoGAF is now right leaning. Thought that was curious.

 

[kevboard]

what is the concern?

I'd say it is targetd to young males. They are leaning conservative.
I don't know what you mean by "far right". The center and Left have gone "far Left" decades ago and and now everything even slight right is "far right".
Orange man is barely a conservative 20 years ago.

germany has multiple right leaning parties, and the AfD is clearly far right, no matter your definition. the CSU is a center right party, as is the FDP.

this isn't the US where the 2 party system results in a single viable left leaning party that has to internally juggle everything from slightly left leaning people all the way to literally communists, and the same for a single viable right leaning one where extremists and moderates are mixed into eachother.

in germany you got a party for every flavour... I mean just recently we got a new left wing conservative socialist one that gained decent traction.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Good that you're getting these ads, now make sure to vote for them!

 

[RoadHazard]

what is the concern?

I'd say it is targetd to young males. They are leaning conservative.
I don't know what you mean by "far right". The center and Left have gone "far Left" decades ago and and now everything even slight right is "far right".
Orange man is barely a conservative 20 years ago.

This is the dumbest take. I don't know if you're European, but no, not everything "sightly right" is seen as far right here. AfD rightfully is though. They're far, far right.

As for the orange man, no, back then he wasn't far right, he was supposedly a Democrat (guess it served him better at the time). Now he's very, very far right. He has no ideology of his own really, he only does what can give him and his oligarch friends the most power and money. He doesn't care about anything else.

 

[SJRB]

Just buy gold and all your troubles melt away.

 

[HRK69]

God, I love my (mostly) ad-free internet experience

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Just buy gold and all your troubles melt away.

Buy gold? This is a problem that can only be solved by faith and prayer to god. The god of the church that is NeoGAF:

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Germany seems like a hot mess. I loved it when I went to Düsseldorf a couple of years back for new years eve, the people were lovely, met some nice folks. I took my wife and son. Whilst in the main square at ten to midnight the place got swamped with some right dodgy fuckers who ended up chucking fireworks into the crowds and getting rowdy amongst families with young children, and there was hundreds

We went back to the hotel, I couldnt risk my family being in the middle of it.

I personally saw a few girls getting accosted by gangs of migrants too down on the train platforms, it was awful.

Whether you think 'Oh no, Far right' or dont. You must admit there is a serious problem over there, especially if you're a young girl..



It is what it is I guess

 

[DAHGAMING]

My wifes German, I showed her your post and reckons your chatting shit, and the truth is your device has heard you singing the song Ausländer Raus with pride.

 

[EviLore]

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