Question...how many of you can see the Banner ad's here on Rural Living?

[wngsprd]

I see the ads and like many of you, when I pay any attention to them, they appear to be driven by what I looked at most recently on Amazon, etc.

 

[daugen]

currently have Kubota finance ad at top and John Deere ad on right.
All tractors, fine with me. Maybe that blocking website did the trick.

I got so tired of seeing Norwall generator ads because I priced some gens online before buying locally.
I wonder if they will come back...they'll just use an alternative identity.

 

[JDgreen227]

Not really.. They do make money with them.

As the saying goes: "A fool and his money are soon parted"

 

[JDgreen227]

I happen to like IE...problem is that TBN is the ONLY site I visit (or did) on a regular basis where the ads are a HUGE IRRITATION...they even block much of the RIGHT SIDE of the screen on my laptop when I am viewing this site. THANKS so much to the advertisers who have turned this site and the others into something to be avoided.

You are doing a wonderful job of alienating the very customers you are seeking to sell your crap to. I will NEVER, EVER buy ANYTHING from an online advertiser who is obtrusive.

 

[von-mil]

I, too, have preferred IE over the years but now I am in the process of switching to Firefox, mainly for its ease of using the AdBlockPlus and NoScript addons. I am saddled with a dial-up internet connection and the main killer for me are the imbedded scripts in most webpages that in turn force unwanted web content - both ad and non-ad material. I am also trying the Stylish addon which I can use to modify the CSS used by web pages and thereby reclaim the screen areas that would normally be taken up by the ads. I just started using NoScript yesterday and so far I like it a lot. I'll just have to see if it becomes too cumbersome to maintain.

 

[MotorSeven]

Muhammad responded that as far as he knows nothing has changed. Weird, because my ABP used to block all ads, so maybe it's just these "tracking" ads that have figured out a way to go around ABP. Oh well, some of our advertising works, some hasn't. Being #1 on the google search page cost a lot of money, I know we tried. We stick with the one's that work, drop the one's that don't.

 

[daugen]

https://support.google.com/adsense/...3EA6otZ6mvYnuyWO9mTBz2vP60wOgBgKAB5Kzmi0&rd=1

hopefully this will work, a good collection of info regarding Google's handling of your personal data. I got to this from the little blue diamond thingie in the top right corner of the ad.