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Contextual Ads for Illegal Steroids

Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch has a piece on one of my favorite topics, embarrassing moments in contextual advertising. These snafus are generally best at news sites, like this example from CNN (or this one), where news coverage of illegal steroid use in professional sports pulls along with it ads for sketchy purveyors of said steroids.

TC Steroid Ads on CNN