adverts on AB

[emmie]

They may be necessary, though having 4 splashed on the page is too much, however i am quite disturbed by the fact that a site i recently looked up and purchased an item from now appears when i open out AB. does that mean that one is being targeted, and that your details are now known. Perhaps the ad is only privy to me, but i don't like this one bit.

[EDDIE51]

I have already commented on this , I looked for car insurance, now I get insurance adverts , but they are for my exact model of car.
Just looked at that windfarm thread now it is ads for solar panels & alternative energy.

[emmie]

Eddie, so it's true, well i can't say that i like this, it's bad enough being bombarded all over the page with flashing adverts.

[emmie]

flashing as in on off on off, before someone makes a comment

[ummmm]

This has been going on for yonks. I think it was google that first introduced targeted ads...

Simple answer....if you don't like this 'free' site you use....try another site!

[emmie]

ummm yes indeed

[ojread2]

What ads?

I see no ads :)

[emmie]

currently banks, MWB business exchange, post office and top of the page changes to different adverts.

[emmie]

M&S and a makeover site so they change a lot.

[EDDIE51]

If you use Firefox instead of IE it has an adblocker which gets rid of 90% of the adverts. I just ignore them .( just answered the thread on payday loans so now I'm getting ads for credit cards for poor credit.)

[emmie]

use firefox, so how do i get rid of them,

[ummmm]

Go to the orange box in the top left hand corner...click on ad ons.

[Khandro]

^^ It seems it only works if you install Firefox; is that correct?

[bibblebub]

it's also available in Chrome

[emmie]

Eddie thank you, will see how this works out. By the way i had to uninstall my internet security to install a newer version which hasn't arrived in post as yet, so could that have been the problem, as it blocks banners

[emmie]

also have do not track installed so thank you again

[ojread2]

google chrome and ad block

[jno]

much as I hate to quote the Mail, do ABers know what Google is up to? This seems like a serious breach of privacy to me

http://www.dailymail....ng-history--late.html

[mrsweasley]

Just deleted mine, thanks jno. I will use bing more in future as its easy to delete theirs-do it once a week. My son uses laptop and don't want any virus's, he does downloads a lot