That's definitely part of the equation Woodsman. I've had a long-standing contract with Google whereby they provide the ads and pay me a cut of their advertising proceeds. That money helps funds the site and allows me to do things like pay for the recent upgrade. Google targets the ads you see based on what they know about you. With the new software, I think I'm showing one more ad on the list page than I did with the old forum software. Some of the position of the ads changed given the new site layout.Could be cookies tracking your internet history & sending you the adds that = your past history.
Try downloading an extension such as adblock.I haven't seen an a single ad since I did it.
We get it, advertisements are annoying!
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