4/25/15 9:18 AM

Lots of websites have eye catching links to outside sponsors, cyclingnews for example. So you're interested in formula one or lycra stretched over a starlet and you take the bait.

At the linked site there are invariably more links but with some revolting picture of a miracle food, a headline that says 5 foods you should never eat, always eat or a headline for 5 exercises you should never/always do.

Observation:
Most of us have never been exposed to this crud because although we may be interested in the cover of the Star, the Enquirer and so on, we never bought a copy so we missed that s**t.

But now we may click on the ads because it's easy.

After trying a couple of times (twice) in the last few years to see what the 5 reasons, foods, exercises are, I've always given up after a couple of dozen of their slides because I figure they know the more someone clicks the more likely they are to be enough of a sucker to pay for it at the end. If I didn't have a private/secure browser I wouldn't have even done that. It's bad enough lingerie advertisements follow me around the internet. Wait a minute, did I say that?

Question:
Still has anyone here ever followed through to see what any of those ads have to say?

4/25/15 10:41 AM

Ad tracking. It is all over the net.

Look at Drudge Report. The banner ad you get will be related to other sites you visit. You can search your browser setting and turn off/on ad tracking but most are hard to find and difficult to understand.

The scary part is when the ads follow you from device to device.

I put a plug in on my safari browser call AdBlock and it appears to help. Clear your cookies often also.

Don't surf up porn, or that will show up too. If you have a FB account or G+ those track you even if you don't open them in your browser.

You can use your browser in "porn mode" but then you won't have things like log-ins for this site automatically done for you.

The net and the browser industry is full of "big brother". I just live with it, you can't beat it and I don't anything to hide, so, so what.

4/25/15 12:01 PM

Adblock and ghostery ad ins

4/25/15 2:53 PM

What question are you answering?

From above:

Question:
Still has anyone here ever followed through to see what any of those ads have to say?

Thanks for all the pointers! They really work, that's why I can laugh about lingerie ads following me around.