Or it's possible someone else in his close circle was using a computer on his network that was looking for things that would trigger those types of ads. Cable DSL routers usually only have 1 dynamic IP.
It's just as likely that nobody was bidding for his target demographic, so the bottom feeding dating sites that take the cheapest of the cheap ad slots bought the top 20% of his screen for millipenny CPCs.
I have given it a thought, but it doesn't make sense to me:
Nobody wanted to target a well paid dev with small kids and holiday plans except the cheapest of the cheap?
The explanations I find more likely is either
- my account got grouped up with a demographic 14 years ago when I worked in an environment that certainly did have those kinds of signals and that signal was too strong.
- scammy dating sites like expensive credit cards pay extremely well and Googled fudged their data to make me fit the criteria.
Lived with my wife and 5 kids, not many visitors, protected metwork. This went on for a decade even despite me trying to trigger other alternatives (search for WordPress hosting).
