Stop Electronic Harassment

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I've seen this ad appear a couple of times - at the bottom of pages on this forum.

It offers "Help for Targeted Individuals".  Those individuals wouldn't happen to be the ones who follow the link, would they?



* Now, where's my tinfoil hat? *

[Richard Crowley]

I've never seen that advert.
Perhaps you have been pre-selected as "targeted"?   

[crispy_tofu]

I've never seen that advert.
Perhaps you have been pre-selected as "targeted"?   

Me neither. 
What I do get are ads for single Filipino women. Hmm...

[Circlotron]

The kinds of ads you get depend on where you have been browsing previously...
I get no ads at all!
I use Adblock Edge and a honking big hosts file -> http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
When I use some else’s computer that hasn't got these installed, the pages look so busy and distracting.

[Brumby]

The kinds of ads you get depend on where you have been browsing previously...

Ahhh......

This ad has shown up on a few occasions ..... and only since I've been active on this forum.  It also seems to only pop up on this forum.

I can't imagine where I've triggered such interest, but - trust me - I haven't been tempted to even scope out the link.  I've no interest in fueling that interest.

[EEVblog]

I've never seen that advert.
Perhaps you have been pre-selected as "targeted"?   

Remember, you're not paranoid if they really are out to get you 

[EEVblog]

A bit of a tangent - I used to rather enjoy the pop-up porn ads when visiting, err, the seedier parts of the internet 
But now it's all either gambling or those really annoying "I made $5000 in a week using this program" videos 

[edy]

I often laugh at some of the ads that appear on website. As general advice I tell my friends that if they don't like an ad to click on the little "x" at the top right corner and you can flag it as inappropriate.

Most ads are usually supplied based on our own browsing habits. It is based on cookie-tracking and various other signatures which are associated with our accounts and previous browsing and searching history. Everyone sees different ads, they are not based on the forum or EEVBlog, but based on *our own* browsing history.

To ensure no ads appear, I've seen a lot more use of an extension called "uBlock Origin" by gorhill on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Of course, ad blockers may also impact Dave's revenue income from the site. So to be fair to Dave, rather than block his site's ads, I prefer to "anonymize" myself as much as possible. There is a setting in your Google account that asks it to "forget" your tastes and preferences and other metrics. Also, erasing history and cookies will tend to reduce the amount of cross-site signatures being left on your machine. I also click the little "X's" in the top of the ad to report that I don't think it applies to me.

Even if you have no interest in an ad, it may still pop up because of some other reason purely due to the advertiser's poor choice of keyword and demographic or location targeting. Obviously if they are showing you ads you don't care about, their message is not going to be as effective. If you click on the links you'll just drain their advertising budget but it may just turn out that you are "baited" even more with these kinds of ads.

Online advertising is definitely changing, it will be interesting to see what happens over the next few years. Remember pop-ups? They are gone. Ad-blockers are starting to kill ads from 3rd-party sites. I think we are doing to see more directly-embedded server-side ads rather than 3rd-party services. Should be interesting.

[Muttley Snickers]

I keep getting an add about a free energy scheme and have saved a link to it on the other pc, I find it rather amusing considering some of the other notable threads on the forum, I've been waiting for someone to debunk it although if I ever do get around to clicking on one of those asian singles adds a bit of a free energy boost might come in handy.

She who randomly walks in the room could be a bit of a worry.

Magnetic Generator
energyinnovator.org

[German_EE]

Wasn't the HAARP project closed down ages ago?

[SeanB]

Can we send this as a suggestion to a certain gent in Portsmouth? he definitely has issues with electronic harassment, though in his case he tends to be the one doing so, rather than the recipient.

[daqq]

Wasn't the HAARP project closed down ages ago?

That doesn't matter to the tin foil crowd - the target audience of these ads is nutjobs who think among other things that CERN is quite literally opening a gate to Hell. Reality (that is not from a similarly tinfoil wrapped source) is irrelevant as far as they are concerned.

[Zero999]

Can we send this as a suggestion to a certain gent in Portsmouth? he definitely has issues with electronic harassment, though in his case he tends to be the one doing so, rather than the recipient.

Let me guess: you're talking about the one who's obsessed with penis ASCII art?

[GreyWoolfe]

No popup adds here as I use Ad Block plus on Chrome.  Before that, it was popup hell.

[SeanB]

Let me guess: you're talking about the one who's obsessed with penis ASCII art?

Google cache is your friend, though I would hazard his artistic ability extends little beyond drawing inside the lines in the book, and he is a little skilled in copy and paste.

[eugenenine]

I used to not run any ad blocking so I could support the forum owners.  But starting a year or two ago so many started attempting to force malware and such and none of them were related to anything I would be interested in so I ended up installing adblock edge.  I've had a couple forum moderators take issue with this but I've told them I'd be happy to support the forum once they moderate the ads.  If I were to make a post saying everyone's java is out of date and they need to click here and run this .exe they would (hopefully) delete my post so why do they allow those ads?

[AF6LJ]

You can sure tell a lot about a person by the ads they see on websites.
Thankfully all I ever see are ads for tools and organic food.

[Richard Crowley]

You can sure tell a lot about a person by the ads they see on websites.
Thankfully all I ever see are ads for tools and organic food.

And this is what I am seeing right now....

[nanofrog]

Here's the ad I'm seeing.

[rdl]

Firefox + NoScript + Ghostery + really big hosts file = 0 advertising

[miguelvp]

adsense is based on where you go on the internet. If you see weird ads it's because where you visit

Here is what it's displaying to me:


Edit: I wonder what ads will I see if I use my wife's computer, should I dare?

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Well, at the bottom of this page I had an ad for Oritech - and some halloween thing from Ali Express.

The Oritech one - well that's fair enough.

The Ali Express one?  I'm not into halloween - but I may have visited Ali Express perhaps twice in the last 12 months.

[AF6LJ]

I just see a Texas Instruments ad at the top of the page.
I click on them from time to time Good Stuff.

[steve30]

I use RequestPolicy in GNU IceCat, so I don't see many adverts, but I just disabled it, and I got this. Both are sites I've visited recently. The second one has been cropping up in adverts quite a lot recently.

Regarding Richard Crowley's advert, what is an SOS Light Bulb?

[Stonent]

If you're being harassed, just complain to the UN.

https://youtu.be/prmprJyPyv0