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DennisN
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| jackbarry wrote: | I've just seen an advert as I posted on another thread on PGPSW which I think is a bit sinister. It advertises a laptop computer that I was looking at in the John Lewis web site this morning. Anyone else experienced this phenonema?
jack.
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I dunno - is that the same as ads for enhancing your base instincts?
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arfurdent
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| jackbarry wrote: | I've just seen an advert as I posted on another thread on PGPSW which I think is a bit sinister. It advertises a laptop computer that I was looking at in the John Lewis web site this morning. Anyone else experienced this phenonema?
jack.
Edit - PS It's still there! |
they are picking up on the cookies and trackers stored on your computer. you can either use adblocker and ghostery or just run ccleaner on a regular basis |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| molerat wrote: | | No ads or orange banners here. I do have a small box on the right hand side with GPS Shopping in it and an empty white box at the top and bottom. Don't know what you are all on about. |
What ad blocker do you use? |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| arfurdent wrote: | | jackbarry wrote: | I've just seen an advert as I posted on another thread on PGPSW which I think is a bit sinister. It advertises a laptop computer that I was looking at in the John Lewis web site this morning. Anyone else experienced this phenonema?
jack.
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they are picking up on the cookies and trackers stored on your computer. you can either use adblocker and ghostery or just run ccleaner on a regular basis |
Just to clarify that "they" are the google ads and NOT us. We don't look at files on your computer. |
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arfurdent
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| Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | | arfurdent wrote: | | jackbarry wrote: | I've just seen an advert as I posted on another thread on PGPSW which I think is a bit sinister. It advertises a laptop computer that I was looking at in the John Lewis web site this morning. Anyone else experienced this phenonema?
jack.
Edit - PS It's still there! |
they are picking up on the cookies and trackers stored on your computer. you can either use adblocker and ghostery or just run ccleaner on a regular basis |
Just to clarify that "they" are the google ads and NOT us. We don't look at files on your computer. |
correct, apologies for the inference |
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Kremmen
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:15 am Post subject: |
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Google isn't that clever then.
I keep getting an advert to go to Disneyland Florida, but I've never had a passport 
or, do they think the picture of Mickey Mouse applies to me ....
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arfurdent
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| Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| Kremmen wrote: | Google isn't that clever then.
I keep getting an advert to go to Disneyland Florida, but I've never had a passport
or, do they think the picture of Mickey Mouse applies to me .... |
unless Mickey has your passport |
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M8TJT
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| Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | | We don't look at files on your computer. |
Not even cookies? |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| M8TJT wrote: | | MaFt wrote: | | We don't look at files on your computer. |
Not even cookies? |
Cookies are used for login stuff (I *think*) and for storing what country you use as default for Camera submissions.
Even then *WE* don;t look at them. The website uses them to save you some time.
When I made that comment I was meaning with regards to looking at your browser history and shopping habits etc etc.
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M8TJT
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| Thanks for the enlargement on your statement MaFt |
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Anita
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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Is anyone else getting ads showing images of scantily clad "young ladies" and text such as “Are you lonely?” , “Russian Single Beauties” and “Join us and find your happiness”, and with invitations to visit sites like charmdatebeauties.com and singlesrussian.com?
Hardly accurately targeted advertising when I’m a 75-year-old woman!
Reported to the Team who are blocking them, and have suggested clearing my cookies, but if that doesn't work I'm afraid I shall be turning my ad blocker on again for this site.
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Anita
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Seems it could be because I recently Googled "Surrey school term dates" and Google interpreted the word "dates" differently from the way I intended it. Since clearing all my history I'm getting more appropriate ads, but it's a pain in the bum losing everything.
Thanks to Rob for blocking the ads and suggesting the possible cause. 
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Kremmen
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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When I had Amazon product suggestion turned on you should have seen some of the ludicrous suggestions it made.
I could sort of follow that because I bought a Canon inkjet cartridge that I should now buy one for an Epson, Brother and HP printer as well 
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| DennisN wrote: | I have no idea how to get an adblocker - I simply ignore ads.
Now if I could find something that would block my email crap I’d rejoice. I’m now getting something like 20 every time I open mail and it’s a real pain deleting them all. I’ve set up dozens of Rules, but they seem to be using pictures instead of text and obviously I can’t block pictures. |
Kaspersky Total Security has a pretty good spam blocker. I'm fortunate that my ISP allows me to create an unlimited number of aliases, so if I start to get lots of junk mail to a particular alias, I just delete it. It amuses me to think of all that junk going nowhere.  |
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