FEEDBACK Temu Ads

[JayArr]

Hi All

I'm going to fade out for a while. I just can't handle the volume and intensity of the TEMU ads that bombard me when I stop by. They make it unpleasant to be here.

I know I can subscribe and make them go away but the yearly subscription price for this site is several times higher than other sites I am on (woodworking, electronics, cigars etc), $50 a year to be ad free is about my limit.

Here's something for the administrators to think about. It's not just the bombardment of the ads, it's that TEMU is rumored to be using slave labour in northern China to produce some of the goods they are trying to sell to us.

See for yourself, google "temu slave labour china"

TEMU slave labour china - Google Search

Since it seems that TEMU is now the major sponsor of GMT Nation I don't want to be here much anymore. I don't want to support TEMU in any way so my conscious asks me to stay away. I have to wonder if the site owners know about TEMUS problems or are they just so in love with money they don't care.

I'll check back in a few months, if the advertising has changed I'll be happy to rejoin, I can live with Amazon ads, at least they don't conjure pictures of children making sneakers in a sweatshop.

JayArr

 

[Ilikemy3s]

Nothing in life is free. Especially the internet. Server space, bandwidth and so on cost money. To keep costs low or free, ads are used. Are the ads what everyone wants? No. Do the owners, moderators and admins of this site or any site think they will retire? Probably not. I pay what I can, when i can, like i am sure others do. If the ads are there, so be it. I am sure Temu is not the only advertiser on the internet that has come under fire for what ever reason. I am sure there are others that are worse. But I am thankful for this site and others i use. Sorry to see you go. Take care. Hope to see you back.

 

[Mooseman]

I think you can click the X next to an and say you don't want to see those anymore but will be replaced with other ads.

However I do agree that Temu is a peddler of CCC and we can do without them. Nothing but complaints about their junk.

 

[Matt]

I believe the ads are generated by Google so the site is not sponsored by Temu. It's generally based on the search history of the user.

 

[Mooseman]

Makes sense. If you were searching Temu in Google, it would come up in the ads, which is run by Google Adsense

 

[Jman423]

The advertisements you see here are completely dynamic and based on YOUR browsing habits. We are not sponsored by anyone, and we don’t choose which ads you see, or how often. Do some research on cookies, they exist everywhere on the internet.

Oh, and if you think TEMU should be boycotted for questionable labor and business practices… I hope you’re not using Amazon or shopping at Walmart.

 

[TollKeeper]

Oh, and if you think TEMU should be boycotted for questionable labor and business practices… I hope you’re not using Amazon or shopping at Walmart.

Or Nike, Reebok, Sketchers, Levi, Arizona, Lee, GM, FoMoCo, Stelantis, AutoZone, Advance Auto Parts, NAPA, Tesla,...... And the list is pretty much endless.

 

[Jman423]

Or Nike, Reebok, Sketchers, Levi, Arizona, Lee, GM, FoMoCo, Stelantis, AutoZone, Advance Auto Parts, NAPA, Tesla,...... And the list is pretty much endless.

TAKE IT BACK!

I drink Arizona daily.

 

[TollKeeper]

TAKE IT BACK!

I drink Arizona daily.

LOL... Arizona Jean Company..

Love me some Arizona Tea..

 

[TollKeeper]

The list of American and International companies that get their products from Slave Labor/China is pretty long... And this isnt even the complete list!

AT&T Abercrombe & Fitch Abbott Laboratories Acer Electronics Ademco Security Adidas ADI Security AGI- American Gem Institute AIG Financial Agrilink Foods, Inc. (ProFac) Allergan Laboratories American Eagle Outfitters American Standard American Tourister Ames Tools Amphenol Corporation Amway Corporation Analog Devices, Inc. Apple Computer Armani Armour Meats Ashland Chemical Ashley Furniture Associated Grocers Audi Motors AudioVox AutoZone, Inc. Avon Eastman Kodak EchoStar Eclipse CCTV Edge Electronics Group Electric Vehicles USA, Inc. Eli Lilly Company Emerson Electric Enfamil Estee Lauder Eveready Family Dollar Stores FedEx Fisher Scientific Ford Motors Fossil Frito Lay Furniture Brands International ICON Office Solutions IBM Ikea Intel Corporation J.C. Penny's J.M. Smucker Company John Deere Johnson Control Johnson & Johnson Johnstone Supply JVC Electronics Mars Candy Martha Stewart Products Mattel McCormick Foods McDonald's McKesson Corporation Megellan GPS Memorex Merck & Company Michael's Stores Mitsubishi Electronics Mitsubishi Motors Mobile Oil Molex Motorola Motts Applesauce Multifoods Corporation Nabisco Foods National Semiconductor Nescafe Nestles Foods Nextar Nike Nikon Nivea Cosmetics Nokia Electronics Northrop Grumman Corporation NuSkin International Nutrilite (see Amway) Nvidia Corporation (G-Force) 3-M Tai Pan Trading Company Tamron Optics Target TDK Tektronix, Inc Texas Instruments Timex Timken Bearing TNT Tommy Hilfiger Toro Toshiba Tower Automotive Toyota Toy's R Us, Inc. Trader Joe's Tripp-lite True Value Hardware Tupper Ware Tyson Foods

Banana Republic Bausch & Lomb, Inc. Baxter International Bed, Bath & Beyond Belkin Electronics Best Buy Best Foods Big 5 Sporting Goods Black & Decker Body Shop Borden Foods Briggs & Stratton Calrad Electric Campbell 's Soup Canon Electronics Carole Cable Casio Instrument Caterpillar, Inc. CBC America CCTV Outlet Checker Auto CitiCorp Cisco Systems Chiquita Brands International Claire's Boutique Cobra Electronics Coby Electronics GAP Stores Gateway Computer GE, General Electric General Foods International General Mills General Motors Gentek Gerber Foods Gillette Company Goodrich Company Goodyear Tire Google Gucci Guess? KB Home Keebler Foods Kenwood Audio KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken Kimberly Clark Knorr Foods K-Mart Kohler Kohl's Corporation Kraft Foods Kragen Auto Office Depot Olin Corporation Old Navy Olympus Electronics Orion-Knight Electronics Pacific Sunwear, Inc. Pamper's Panasonic Pan Pacific Electronics Panvise Papa Johns Payless Shoesource Pelco Pentax Optics Pep Boy's Pepsico International PetsMart Petco Pfizer, Inc. Philips Electronics Phillip Morris Companies Pier 1 Imports Pierre Cardin Pillsbury Company Pioneer Electronics Pitney Bowes, Inc. Pizza Hut Plantronics PlaySchool Toys Polaris Industries Polaroid Polo (see Ralph Loren) Post Cereals Price-Pfister Pringles Praxair Proctor & Gamble PSS World Medical Pyle Audio Uniden Electronics UPS Valspar Corporation Victoria 's Secret Vizio Electronics Volkswagen VTech Walgreen Company Walt Disney Company Walmart WD-40 Corporation Weller Electric Company Western Digital Westinghouse Electric Weyerhaeuser Company Whirlpool Corporation Wilson Sporting Goods Wrigley WW Grainger, Inc. Wyeth Laboratories

Coca Cola Foods Colgate-Palmolive Colorado Spectrum ConAgra Foods Cooper Tire Corning, Inc. Coleman Sporting Goods Compaq Crabtree & Evelyn Cracker Barrel Stores Craftsman Tools (see Sears) Cummins, Inc. Dannon Foods Dell Computer Del Monte Foods Dewalt Tools DHL Dial Corporation Diebold, Inc. Dillard's, Inc. Dodge-Phelps Dole Foods Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. Dow-Corning Haagen-Dazs Harley Davidson Hasbro Company Heinz Foods Hershey Foods Hitachi Hoffman-LaRoche Holt's Automotive Products Hormel Foods Home Depot Honda Motor Hoover Vacuum HP Computer Honda Honeywell Hubbell Inc. Huggies Hunts-Wesson Foods Land's End Lee Kum Kee Foods Lexmark LG Electronics Lipton Foods L.L. Bean, Inc. Logitech Libby's Foods Linen & Things Lipo Chemicals, Inc. Lowe's Hardware Lucent Technologies Lufkin Qualcomm Quest One Radio Shack Ralph Loren RCA Reebok International Reynolds Aluminum Revlon Rohm & Hass Company Samsonite Samsung Sanyo Shell Oil Schwinn Bike Sears-Craftsman Seven-Eleven (7-11) Sharp Electronics Sherwin-Williams Shure Electronics Sony Speco Technologies/Pro Video Shopko Stores Skechers Footwear SmartHome Smucker's (see J.M. Smucker's) Solar Power, Inc. Spencer Gifts Stanley Tools Staple's Starbucks Corporation Steelcase, Inc. STP Oil Sunkist Growers SunMaid Raisins Sunglass Hut Sunkist Subway Sandwiches Switchcraft Electronics SYSCO Foods Sylvania Electric X-10 Xelite Xerox Yahoo Yamaha Yoplait Foods Yum Brands Zale Corporation

 

[Jman423]

LOL... Arizona Jean Company..

Love me some Arizona Tea..

Carry on…

 

[TollKeeper]

Carry on…

Especially the Mucho Mango, or Sweet Tea... yummy!

 

[Mooseman]

GM,

Noooooo!

 

[Matt]

Yay, KIA is not on the list!

 

[JayArr]

I'm back and I've noticed something that may or may not be relevant.

I arrive at this site with ZERO cookies. I have Cookie Auto Delete installed and I'm running FireFox 106 in a MATE desktop environment on a FREEBSD Unix server. No Chrome/Google and no Microsoft.

I still get inundated with Temu ads.

I think my conclusion is that Temu is the DEFAULT ad package if no cookies can be found.

Maybe if I had cookies from other places Google Adware would serve up something related and I wouldn't see so many Temu ads.