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Sometimes, the ad-banner database has no heart.

CBC.ca’s banner ads are dropped on the page by a database, not a human. Sometimes, I think the computer should have been mandated to the internal Respect workshops.

Hat tip to Truro NS web designer Daniel MacDonald who spotted this and took a screenshot.

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2 Responses to “Sometimes, the ad-banner database has no heart.”

Chip says:

That is kind of an unfortunate ad to have on that page.

One time I was reading an online article about saving endangered woodpeckers, and there was an ad on the page about how to keep woodpeckers away from your house…

SWalker says:

It would have been really funny if the endangered woodpeckers article had carried an ad for Viagra.

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