how come i get advetising on thinkbroadband

hi all ive just noticed something werid , im with vivacit surfwise luu and when ive been looking at gpu and hoiladays when i come on here they r being shown on the left of homepage as advetisments weid?some 1 spying on me?use ccleaner and the ads stop showing btw vivacit is a reseller of o-bit i think any ideas? bit scary like some 1 watching me

Likely to be Google Ad-words tracking.

I posted some items from a courier the other day, and now I see more ads targeting that sector.

Matt

If you want to block the adds suggest you take a look at the add on here at Ghostery.com

Edited by deleted (Wed 29-Dec-10 20:00:24)

With ie7 i use an add-on called IE7 Pro that also has a built in download manager and an add blocker/flash blocker user configurable IE7 Pro add-on

Edit the Host files.

Eh? I didn't want to remove them, just saying that it is advertising directed at me as it is relevant.

Matt

Access to here (both the forums and the main site) is free, but they cost money to run... so you get adverts.

They do use tracking via Google, but they're hardly intrusive.

No, you edit the hosts file to INCLUDE/ALLOW the safe ads here - I wouldn't have it any other way, Bill.

TBH I can never really understand why people get so het up about adverts... if I consider a site is too overloaded with adverts or they're too intrusive then I simply don't go there again.

For reasonable levels of adverts I suppose I could use an ad-blocker, but they're not 100% effective. Whereas the one behind my eyeballs is

In reply to a post by billford:

TBH I can never really understand why people get so het up about adverts... if I consider a site is too overloaded with adverts or they're too intrusive then I simply don't go there again.

For reasonable levels of adverts I suppose I could use an ad-blocker, but they're not 100% effective. Whereas the one behind my eyeballs is

I have no problems with the ads here as they are not the least bit intrusive.

I only block ads when they do become intrusive like the ads that sometimes appear on PC Advisor.
They are so bad that they obstruct the text that you are trying to read if you accidentally hover your mouse over them!

To block them I use both the Firefox NoScript and the Adblock Plus add-on.

If a few ads is the price we pay for this site and all the know-how we get from it, then it's for nothing. Thank you.

In reply to a post by adsl24thebest:

hi all ive just noticed something werid , im with vivacit surfwise luu and when ive been looking at gpu and hoiladays when i come on here they r being shown on the left of homepage as advetisments weid?some 1 spying on me?use ccleaner and the ads stop showing btw vivacit is a reseller of o-bit i think any ideas? bit scary like some 1 watching me

Hi, I think the op is experiencing similar that I experienced where the same advert banners follow you around on each website you visit and when you realise this you sense something eerie and wonder what is going on.

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/general/t/3966058-a...

For Windows XP, I zapped it with�

CCleaner http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ccleaner.html

Wise Registry Cleaner http://www.snapfiles.com/get/wiseregistry.html

RegSeeker http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regseeker.html

...and got rid, the computer now runs much faster.

In reply to a post by uno:

Likely to be Google Ad-words tracking.

Or perhaps StalkStalk's own PHORM revival!