Placement targeted ads on account that opted out

Adsense = broken

[zett]

I opted out from placement targeting in spring 2008. After I received the confirmation e-mail, placement targeted ads continued to run for about 50 days, albeit on a reduced volume. Then the plague of placement targeted ads was gone. Every single day was showing a good round zero when I checked my reports.

You see, out of habit (and utter distrust to Google), I continued to request detailed reports for contextual and placement ads, just for the "fun" of it.

Guess what? On 30/04/09 I saw for the first time since last year a very low number showing up again in the reports labeled as "placement targeted". And on 07/05 again. #*$!? It's not that those few pageviews do anything to me financially, but I am more than ever concerned that the black box known as Adsense is completely out of control now. How can placement targeted ads show up after 280+ days of zero placement targeted ads? After successfully opting out in 2008? What is going on?

[purplecape]

Did you ask Google? I've seen stuff like that and assumed that it was some kind of testing.