Why is THAT ad on a car forum?

I don’t think I’ve been served that one, clearly the adbots have realized that I switched to a dermatology practice.

 

Have you been looking for a good pulmonologist lately? I would think most of ads you see on on-line are targeted ads generated by your browsing and/or searching histories.

 

This was on mine this morning.
Fairly generic.....

 

Hmm, not sure if that’s the case, seems like a pretty specific market there.

 

I’m always entertained by what triggers a given ad selection/placement. It could be the contents of the page itself, your recent browsing & search activity (at least from that same browser) and there are plenty more data streams to mine too...

 

I use Adblock Plus on my browser. I see almost no ads on any of my pages I browse, including Amazon links on a comment on PC threads. If the site requires to turn off Ad Blocker to read the page, I move on. But then I find this article ... Hummm

Google removes two Chrome ad blocker extensions caught 'cookie stuffing' | ZDNet

 

They don't care.
It's the "shotgun" method.
Just random chance will mean that the shots hit a few appropriate targets.

I wouldn't be without an ad blocker.

Do you realize that those are "pass through" messages ?
That is, this site gives permission to another SITE to pump in ads.......without any screening at all.
What that means is: Those "foreign" sites can send links to all kinds of nasty things that they want.

The question you asked is kind of evidence of that.

 

Back in the 'old days', before most of y'all were members here, this is exactly how several incidents of malware were served up to numerous PC members.

Those episodes turned my then-cursedly-slow DSL connection, with a low monthly data limit, into a blessing. To make my connection usable -- for web surfing in general, not specific to this forum -- I had previously blocked all the ads and scripts and third-party page content that otherwise severely slowed down page loading and wasted huge amounts of the data allowance. Those blocks kept all the ad-served malware out.

 

ka block! but now i feel like i'm missing out

 

This site motivated me to install an ad blocker: for a while there it was completely hamstrung if I didn't use an ad blocker, wouldn't even load.

 

I use AdBlockerPlus and haven't noticed it causing a problem with links posted in the body of a post.

 

I’ve enjoyed adblockers since WebFree in 1997. But lately I’ve been messing with a different browser and have only tried it raw so far.

 

Waiting to see a "Coffee enema Equipment" ad........................

 

About 6-8 weeks ago I was pestered by bogus, pop-up offers:

• PDF reader
• infected MacOS scanner
• e.t.c.

These are just virus delivery software and the pop-ups were immune to my ad blocker. So I took a different approach.

The HTML of the pop-ups can be examined using "show source" and identify the domain name of the thieving servers. I then add them to my "/etc/hosts" file, both IPV4 and IPV6 to give:

Code:

127.0.0.1 usine.puopla.site
::1 usine.puopla.site
127.0.0.1 update4now.yourspaceofpage.info
::1 update4now.yourspaceofpage.info
127.0.0.1 www.pdfmac.com
::1 www.pdfmac.com
127.0.0.1 maketypeflare-rawclicks.icu
::1 maketypeflare-rawclicks.icu
127.0.0.1 check4free.getbestvideo.info
::1 check4free.getbestvideo.info
127.0.0.1 myvoxnews.com
::1 myvoxnews.com
127.0.0.1 0fficial.page
::1 0fficial.page
127.0.0.1 www.onesafe-software.com
::1 www.onesafe-software.com
127.0.0.1 cdnjs.cloudflare.com
::1 cdnjs.cloudflare.com
127.0.0.1 performprogressiveuberfile.icu
::1 performprogressiveuberfile.icu
127.0.0.1 set4update4u.mainworldofcontents.info
::1 set4update4u.mainworldofcontents.info

The "127.0.0.1" and "::1" are network bit buckets for IPV4 and IPV6. Once added, I could either refresh the page and/or hit the download button only to see them fail. All of the pop-up traffic going to a network dead-end. But I did run into one problem.

The last pop-up had:

Code:

#127.0.0.1 ajax.googleapis.com
#::1 ajax.googleapis.com

This was a link to a google Java object. It cause two, previously useful web pages, autoline.tv and fueleconomy.gov, to suffer problems. In effect, Google had probably delivered the rogue pop-up. Regardless, commenting them returned normal operation and I've not had another rogue pop-up.

Bob Wilson

 

I don't use ad blockers for the same reason that I don't block trolls in this forum.
As long as they're not cluttering up the browser, I'm out of rats to give about what's flashing in the bar at the top of the page.

Today's ad:

 

The ad guys aren't totally dumb. To run a good ad campaign you have to run the same ads against a control group every so often to verify that your real targeted group is in fact worth paying extra to reach.

Mike