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louise1966
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Once I access a website on my laptop, advertising for that site, i.e. cosmetics, pop up on other sites; when I came onto DS, items of EH skincare were advertised and I had just been checking prices of Emma Hardie's range. Is there any way of stopping this without buying software to do it? It's just like spam mail, an invasion of privacy. Obviously the computer remembers which sites the user has been on. Thanks.
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Use Ad Block Plus to stop the rest
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Remember to check it every month as it doesn't update automatically.
This have been going on for years, it is all to do with cookies, well most of the time anyway, large advertising companies, one of them being Google and there are loads more, will stick a cookie onto your computer with a unique number that will stay with you until you clear cookies.
This is how they track people and show them adverts they think they may be interested in.
There are many way to stop it, the simplest way is to block third party cookies, you still get adverts, but no tracking.
You can get third party software that cost you nothing, Ad-block is one, I don't like that one as it blocks adverts and I got nothing against adverts, just the tracking.
Abine produces DO not Track+, which is great with firefox or Chrome, not sure if they got a version for Internet Explorer. DNT+ put cookies onto your machine, but they are set to zero, so the advertising companies know that you do not want to be tracked. All these advertising companies have got opt outs, but without something like DNT+ it is difficult to get them all.
Ghostery is another one, It don't work so well on chrome, but firefox it is fine.
Click and clean is also a browser add on, that will delete all cookies when you close the browser and also the cache. Ok you can do that with browser settings, but I like click and clean.
Myself I use Dragon browser ( chrome clone) DNT+ and click & clean.