Ads.

[petal54]

seem to've dozensof ads. popping up all the time!!!

[MargoTester]

Me too Petal and every I look at something on another site up pops an ad for it on here. Pain in the proverbial!

[petal54]

sorry to hear,but glad not just me

[AB Editor]

Hi - what do you mean by popping up?

Can you describe the ads?

[Khandro]

The most infuriating ones are those under the AB heading (where I'm writing now) to the right of the space for 'best answer'. These are invariably 'live' and if the cursor strays onto them you can get whisked off to some other website, this is obviously the plan and I can't figure out how to stop it.

[Khandro]

Ed. mine are all German

[MargoTester]

At the moment I have one for Speedy Fuels and Lordos Hotels - not that I have looked at those. But if i look at shoes for instance on M & S everything I have look comes up on this site. I used a iPad by the way.

[AB Editor]

Margo, that's how it's meant to work.

Petal, can you help by describing what you mean by pop up and what they look like/are for?

[AB Editor]

Khandro - what are they for?

[Khandro]

Actually having said that, the next one that came up is in English; 'Transfer Money try the new way to transfer money 10 times cheaper than banks' then it says 'AdChoises'
This would seem to suggest evidence of prying, because the transfer of money internationally is some thing I have been doing of late.

[MargoTester]

Thanks Ed - so I suppose there is no way to stop this happening?

[Khandro]

I've been looking at sites for used cars, one called Autoscout, specifically a Honda CRV, and I get lots of ads showing CRV's for sale within a 200km radius.

[AB Editor]

"Thanks Ed - so I suppose there is no way to stop this happening?"

Stop buying nice stuff from M&S? :)

[AB Editor]

It's called "retargeting" in adworld Khandro. It's not a big deal. And is not the subject of this thread.

[Khandro]

No ads on Wikipedia here

[AB Editor]

Hi Petal - If you come back I would be interested in your answer to Methyl's question. You may have some kind of browser plugin malware which is inserting ads as you wander from site to site - without the site's knowledge.