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Topic Started: Apr 25 2012, 02:19 PM (426 Views)
Mobson
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There are two rectangular slots on our forum main page that flicker ads....Yesterday morning I looked up hand-held electrical blenders on the John Lewis website; site....right now the flicker adverts on top & bottom of the page are showing all the recent products including blenders, that I have looked up on the JL site....

How is this happening?....I presume no-one else gets what I'm getting!
Edited by Mobson, Apr 25 2012, 09:56 PM.
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Aware-Adult


That will be your cookies my dear <seeya>

Web-sites often send a cookie, a small text file, through your browser which lurks in the hard drive until next time you visit the site. I use a cookie to track people visiting a music web-site and virtually nobody deletes or blocks it! Absolute madness as they soon build up a profile of your browsing habits <ninja>

Most browsers give you an option of choosing to accept cookies, but this soon becomes boring. Far more convenient is to find out where the little buggers lurk and just delete them manually. For example, my ‘Music PC’ stores them at: C:\Users\Music\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cookies

There is also a ‘Cache’ of locally stored files which is worth peering at occasionally <smashyourcomputer>

The odd thing, as you point out, is how the web-sites seem to recommend an item you looked at previously. I bought a small tripod a fortnight ago yet I am still being recommended no end of pricy Manfrotto and Gitzo items I have no interest in. Oh, I stopped looking at the adverts ages back, except for the amazing spinning dancer .gif previously commented upon.
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Schrodinger's Cat
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Adverts? What adverts?

(I use Adblock Plus <dalek> )
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Adverts pay for the internet apparently ..... hard to see how, and also make fortunes. I've never been tempted to buy anything whatsoever by internet adverts .......... <huh????>
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Mobson
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Thanks AA & S.Cat - I have had a look at my preferences re: cookies and adjusted my settings!!!!! I'm on a Mac using Safari and when I went to look for the cache of stored files you mention - it just says 'Empty Cache' - so I did!

Mac's are not supported by Adblock, unless I download either Firefox or Mozilla....I'm not that bothered by ads per se, it was a bit weird to see exactly what I had been searching earlier flickering across the ad box!
Edited by Mobson, Apr 26 2012, 02:42 PM.
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BTW, I caught a very interesting piece on You & Yours this lunchtime ; A government body, The Information Commission, says that two thirds of people passing on computers leave themselves open to fraud - so how do you clear your hard drive properly?.....look here for further info.

http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_the_public/topic_specific_guides/online/deleting_your_data.aspx

There's a request from ICO to place cookies on my computer "to help us make this website better"....because of my preference change that's the first time I've noticed this notice! and then "I accept cookies from this site" !!!
Edited by Mobson, Apr 26 2012, 02:55 PM.
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That Blair chap (Eric Arthur) was right! ‘The Information Commission’ - YIKES! :O

Here comes 1984 <crikey>


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Mobson
Apr 26 2012, 02:55 PM
BTW, I caught a very interesting piece on You & Yours this lunchtime ; A government body, The Information Commission, says that two thirds of people passing on computers leave themselves open to fraud - so how do you clear your hard drive properly?
<smashyourcomputer>
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Ah, the physical destruction method. I'm surprised there is no mention in the "Pros" column of the pleasure that smashing your computer might afford.
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Talking of which ...... Seen this? (probably) ...... more where it came from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZrdrfdAl44&feature=related

(might be genuine, i guess)
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Mobson
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<laugh> That is very drastic action against what is really an emotive object - although in saying that, I couldn't possible take an axe to my beautiful Mac who is called Apple-- <rose> ..... :wub:
Edited by Mobson, Apr 27 2012, 11:51 AM.
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rumbaba
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The apple of your eye, Mobs?
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Caro

If I (or more likely my husband) gets rid of all our cookies then I have to log in to my messageboards every time, and I don't want to do that. It doesn't bother me that people see my browsing habits, though I got a little surprised when I went to IMBD and saw the last dozen or so movies I had checked out. I have bought two books over Amazon, and sometimes book travel or accommodation online, paying with a credit card, but that's about it.

I got very upset one day when my computer kept showing me what I considered pornography (moving pictures of a couple having sex right in my face with a great big penis) - when I described it to people like my dil with some shock she laughed and said that was mild, but it wasn't mild to me - it was gross and objectionable and I was in tears because it wouldn't go away. But I wiped the cookies and that has never happened again.

There's not much in my life that it would matter if people knew about.
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Hi Caro, depend on which browser you use. I use Google Chrome and there's an option of choosing which sites I trust to accept cookies/password &c.

Try out Chrome, or Mozarella!, I've given up on Opera but it used to be good. Different browsers give different levels of 'configurability' (HA - New Word!).

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Edited by Aware-Adult, May 2 2012, 03:01 PM.
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Mobson
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Has anyone else experienced the talking ads? When I come into the forum an american male voice calls out! Think he's gone away at the moment because probably so has the ad!
Edited by Mobson, Jun 1 2012, 10:20 AM.
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He gave me astart too, Mobs ....... they change so it'll probably disappear.

If it is a nuisance the support people are very helpful so they could be asked to stop it. Ads are a necessary evil but shouting at you is just going too far!
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Mobson
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:'( Heck! He's back saying "Congratulations you've won! - does he know something I do not! <wink>
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