I'd find that drastic difference pretty damn suspicious.
How internet safety aware are your parents? If they aren't technical at all and they're blasé to the point of idiocy about online security, it's possible someone has unknowingly installed something malicious on at least one of the machines on their WiFi network that sends out "Kick Me!" packets to an advertising bot (or bots) somewhere. Since the IP addresses of ordinary domestic consumers are not fixed and usually change every time the connection to the provider drops for even a second, those signals have to be sent regularly. And, yeah, given the nature of the advertising you were getting, it seems to me the odds are good that whatever whomever has unknowingly installed, it was probably porn-related. And possibly the advertiser's algorithm is clever enough to take account of how particular flavours of porn sent to particular machine's are more likely to get a click.
But on the other hand, it's possible the ads had nothing to do with your parents. Advertising algorithm are seriously weird and often unpredictable things, even to their creators. Who knows? Maybe the algorithm has registered that people in the geographical area of your parents' house are more likely to click on those sorts of ads. Is there a seminary nearby? Do they live near Bob Jones "University" or some other infestation of young, male Bible bashers?
Thanks for your long and detailed response. No, there aren't any seminaries near me. Nobody in that household has a faith except me, when I visit them.
My parents' marriage is sexless (according to my mum) and my adult brother lives with them. He has a long-distance boyfriend whom he can't see because of corona. So pretty much everyone in the house is sexually frustrated.
In situations like these I know that people are susceptible to developing porn habits, but it's just too weird/creepy/sad for me to imagine any or all of my close family members masturbating to porn alone in their rooms under the same roof, especially since they're all in long-term romantic relationships.
If the ads I get through their WiFi networks are almost all about pornographic games, then it feeds into the conclusion that that's what they do...
My game ads get more pornographic at my parents' house. IIN
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I'd find that drastic difference pretty damn suspicious.
How internet safety aware are your parents? If they aren't technical at all and they're blasé to the point of idiocy about online security, it's possible someone has unknowingly installed something malicious on at least one of the machines on their WiFi network that sends out "Kick Me!" packets to an advertising bot (or bots) somewhere. Since the IP addresses of ordinary domestic consumers are not fixed and usually change every time the connection to the provider drops for even a second, those signals have to be sent regularly. And, yeah, given the nature of the advertising you were getting, it seems to me the odds are good that whatever whomever has unknowingly installed, it was probably porn-related. And possibly the advertiser's algorithm is clever enough to take account of how particular flavours of porn sent to particular machine's are more likely to get a click.
But on the other hand, it's possible the ads had nothing to do with your parents. Advertising algorithm are seriously weird and often unpredictable things, even to their creators. Who knows? Maybe the algorithm has registered that people in the geographical area of your parents' house are more likely to click on those sorts of ads. Is there a seminary nearby? Do they live near Bob Jones "University" or some other infestation of young, male Bible bashers?
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Thanks for your long and detailed response. No, there aren't any seminaries near me. Nobody in that household has a faith except me, when I visit them.
My parents' marriage is sexless (according to my mum) and my adult brother lives with them. He has a long-distance boyfriend whom he can't see because of corona. So pretty much everyone in the house is sexually frustrated.
In situations like these I know that people are susceptible to developing porn habits, but it's just too weird/creepy/sad for me to imagine any or all of my close family members masturbating to porn alone in their rooms under the same roof, especially since they're all in long-term romantic relationships.
If the ads I get through their WiFi networks are almost all about pornographic games, then it feeds into the conclusion that that's what they do...