I went to Bloomberg's "Everytown" website

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Yesterday I checked out Bloomberg's Everytown website. Now, every advertisement banner I get is an ad for Bloomberg's gun control efforts. I'm talking about the advertisment blocks here on THR, which is ironic.

I know web browser histories and cookies influence they type of ads that show up, but I have to say I am surprised at the fact that EVERY ad I see is a Bloomberg ad. Quite a media blitz.

For me personally I could care less. I generally ignore them. I can clean my browser and the ads will go away.

However, I'm a little concerned about the influence this kind of mega blitz might have on "fence sitters" and people who are apathetic or unaware of the dangers of gun control.

Anyway, just sharing that I've gotten a glimpse Bloomberg's juggernaut, and it seems powerful and insidious. It makes me want to do something to counter the ad. A letter to the editor of the local paper, a contribution to a gun rights group, or take a new person out shooting. Anything.
 
We should all go there and get a cookie, and then click on every ad they post. It costs the other side a few cents every time an ad is clicked. The RKBA side should eat those cookies and spend their pennies until they run out.

Willie

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I've had ads blocked so have no idea what the focus of "everytown" is. They pushing safety or UBCs?
 
"Everytown for gun safety"

Without actually going to their website or enabling advertising, are they actually pushing safety or are they pushing UBCs and other control. If they are pushing safety it can possibly be highjacked.

Have heard alot about the big $50mil push but as I've done a decent job insulating myself from commercial advertising I have not actually seen what that 50mil is getting him. I've even heard CO is a big push (to prop up all the people that supported the laws last year) but have not actually seen an ad.

From the thread you linked hso
Where should you donate your $$$ to have the maximum impact? Preferably against whatever Mike specifically has in mind, if he's laid out detailed plans yet.
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What are Bloombergs detailed plans beyond getting a whole bunch of media attention by dumping cash into a cause?
 
Seems like ads for a website that you already visited kind of defeat the purpose. Not that I mind them spending their money unwisely.
 
If 1,000 2A supporters each visit the site 1,000 times, that will cost them 1,000,000 pennies, or $10k, pocket change for Mr B. He will will then, no doubt, claim 1,000,000 more supporters. I think that does more harm than good.
 
The ads that you see on any website are generally from sites you've visited previously. If you look at golf clubs or barnes and noble you'll see several ads for them on many different sites. It's not the same ads everyone else is seeing.

Don't take it to mean that 90% of ads seen by everyone are from bloomberg. I haven't seen a single one, I also haven't visited the website.
 
Between flashblock, noscript, and ghostery, I don't see much advertizing. More importantly, I don't have 22 trackers loading cookies, flash cookies, and ads with zero day exploits as part of the package.
 
The ad depicts a little kid mishandling a handgun without adult supervision. Kinda disingenuous considering Bloomberg isn't simply advocating proper firearms safety and teaching children about guns. Of course nobody wants a little kid to get their hands on a gun without a responsible adult around. That has nothing to do with his agenda. :banghead:
 
e should all go there and get a cookie, and then click on every ad they post. It costs the other side a few cents every time an ad is clicked.
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Uh, no, they get money when you click those ads....let's not help them out.
 
"Everytown for gun safety"

Without actually going to their website or enabling advertising, are they actually pushing safety or are they pushing UBCs and other control. If they are pushing safety it can possibly be highjacked.

Have heard alot about the big $50mil push but as I've done a decent job insulating myself from commercial advertising I have not actually seen what that 50mil is getting him. I've even heard CO is a big push (to prop up all the people that supported the laws last year) but have not actually seen an ad.
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Took a look. Didn't see anything about gun safety or handling. Certainly no mention of the 4 rules. Lots of mention of "better background checks", "closing loopholes", and "keeping guns out of the wrong hands" Just like all his previous groups and your run of the mill gun control group. Same *ahem*, different wrapper.
It's Bloomberg, what else do you want?
 
Bloomberg's 'firearm safety' is NOT about safety but

is part of the unending propaganda war this crowd has waged since 1976.

The long term goal is to redefine the public consciousness for the meaning of important concepts about firearms. Thus, 'safety' rests in a notion of no access to 'dangerous items'--and prohibition of them. Modern Sporting Rifles become 'assault weapons;' 'standard capacity magazines' become ten-round clips--and so on.

Similarly, what was touted a year ago as 'sensible' control in the form of universal background checks was the wrapper for a registration system and a draconian list of 'possession' definitions that criminalized normal behavior among shooters.

In sum, consider any proposal from them not merely suspect but a lie. Don't fall for their propaganda.

Jim H.
 
Uh, no, they get money when you click those ads....let's not help them out.
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No, you have it backwards. They have to spend the money to place the ads. When you click on their ad and get directed to their website they pay the website where the ad was displayed.

Example: I'm on THR and see a Bloomberg ad. I click the Bloomberg ad. Via the web advertising agent (who takes their cut - usually Google AdSense) Bloomberg pays THR to display their ads here. When you click, Bloomberg pays THR for each click for sending traffic to their website.

Now, if THR started advertising across the web and spent enough we could get google to place our ads on a Bloomberg site. Every time someone on the Bloomberg site clicked the THR ad we'd have to pay for them sending us traffic.
 
This guy knows money talks, and he's got a virtually unlimited supply to throw at his personal agenda regarding firearms. He wants everyone to think like the typical New York City dweller --guns is bad. (No offense to the NYers on this board.)

Having lived in New York in my formative years, I claim to have a little insight into their thinking, and they have been so immersed in the anti-gun propaganda since the Sullivan Act became law that there's an automatic Pavlovian "Ewww!" reaction to anything firearm-related. I rapidly learned not to talk about my gun interests to any of my relatives and friends back there.

The other thing about New Yorkers is the attitude of "You can't fight City Hall," with the implication that whatever the government does is OK and is for their own good. That's why their former Mayor (who, it is said, "bought" his election to the Mayoralty with his own money) thought to go so far as to even propose the ridiculous "soft drink" limitaitons. (Whether that was a "trial balloon" to assess his own power is debatable.)

We in the more "free" areas of the country ought not underestimate this new propaganda campaign. This guy knows the value of advertising, and can afford way more than $50,000,000.00 to generate that "Ewww!" attitude in enough people to completely change the nation's attitudes toward the proper use of firearms.

It starts with just "safety" --after all, nobody can argue with that --but mark my words, this well-thought-out campaign will go far beyond that, and far beyond mere web ads.

Merely thinking that popup blockers and Contributing Memberships will make the problem go away is naive --and debating whether clicking on the ads will cost him too much is totally irrelevant.

There's an old saying that "advertising pays," and there's nobody who understands that better than that former Mayor.

He knows very well that "money talks."

Terry, 230RN
 
It starts with just "safety" --after all, nobody can argue with that --but mark my words, this well-thought-out campaign will go far beyond that, and far beyond mere web ads.
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Bloomberg has been very clear that the $50 millions in not for ads. He is spending the money setting up a ground organization in keys states and will spend the money on staff and infrastructure. He has also been clear that the $50 million is just the tip of the iceberg. If he starts seeing results he will put more money into the effort. $50 million is pocket change to Bloomberg, it is about 1/10th of 1 percent of his personal wealth.
 
Instead of wasting time clicking on ads, spend that time and some of your money supporting causes you believe in. Bloomberg may have $50 million to do the same thing, but hey he's actually doing something.
 
Dont click the ads

The ads are PAY PER CLICK ..yes, they pay per click..but it is a drop in the bucket compared to the propagation those clicks will net if they are clicked. Think of it as a sliding scale. The more clicks google ads gets, the more they push them out as winners, hoping to get more clicks and more money.

The best thing is to NOT click - it will not gain street cred then...

if you are on facebook, you can right click the ad and report it as spam/offensive whatever

Wish you could do this on web pages...
 
230RN said:
There's an old saying that "advertising pays," and there's nobody who understands that better than that former Mayor.

He knows very well that "money talks."
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Nothing could be truer. The great crime novelist, Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey), whose original career was as one of the first woman advertising executives, made this famous quote in 1930 :"Advertise or go under".

Thousands of "Madmen" have followed her advice ever since. Bloomberg, with his incredible 27 billion in the vault, is just the latest and most dangerous to our gun rights.

At age 72 and in good health, there is no one who can outspend this raging hoplophobe.
 
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