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

[Loadstar]

Goofy...well, in my opinion, yes for certain things. For example, I see AT&T advertising here on a banner, top and side which is very pricey. I have to wonder if anyone ever looks at their ad and goes " I never thought about At&T!"

But for our real estate I think a national ad to a targeted audience is beneficial. Unless you have been searching for quite some time for rural property, odds are that you have never heard of Hancock County Tennessee. Back in 2001 I found it by accident when looking at a tract of land here, but I had no info on the County until I did my own research. Many folks are trying to get away from the larger cities and be somewhat self sufficient. They are also trying to escape excessive taxes(especially in the NE), overzealous code enforcement, high property costs, the list goes on an on. We think our County is unique in that it is remote, almost zero industry, which make it a prime candidate for Retirees like myself. So reaching out with a banner ad here to catch the eye of someone about to make a change in permanent location makes sense to us.

Sy, I think you were right, since I have turned on the ad's here I see ads for things I have recently looked at....I am being tracked. I don't think any of us like being tracked by advertisement stalkers, and the only way to stop that is to block them. Then they are still stalking us, we just can't see them. Like it or not we all leave footprints all over the internet highway every time we log on.

Goofy was a poor choice of words but it works. I understand your situation a little better now glad you explained a little more. It probably is not a bad avenue for you advertising on this site being that many people are after a "rural escape" on this site.

 

[aczlan]

That's actually a workaround, not a fix. The fix is to complain loud enough to places they quit running doubleclick and similar on their sites... I like all the content on a page to come from the server I chose to visit, not having parts of the page pimped out to third party advertising firms.

While I agree with you on the ads, the fix in this case (with the useless back button) is for the IE developers to get their act together and learn how to code a real browser. It ONLY happens in IE (not FF, Chrome, etc), therefor its an IE bug.

Aaron Z

 

[MotorSeven]

Well, I guess I was naive, I thought ads here on TBN had to be related to the topic at hand. It seems that anyone selling anything can be on here, which is good for the forum owners...no so great for the users....there should be certain parameters to qualify an ad before it runs. Because the end result will be that most users will just block them all.

 

[Sysop]

I don't block anything on TBN specifically, I keep stuff like doubleclick blocked therefore sites like TBN simply show me an empty spot where the ads should be.

aczlan: I'm not out to get into a browser war discussion, there's plenty of IT forums out there to rehash such things. The long and short of the situation is a site such as TBN should use what works for their users, their users should not have to perform workarounds and install additional flawed code to their systems (all code has flaws, and all browsers are the worst of all code)...

Doubleclick is NOT something you want your systems to have access to no matter what browser you use. The users infected on NBC by were using all sorts of browsers, not all that were infected were even Windows machines. Making changes to anything except the advertising system used here is a workaround and doesn't fix the real problem.

 

[IXLR8]

I think the reason I am not seeing banner ad's, or a lot of other ad's, is due to the fact I am using "disconnect me" to stop sites from tracking me.

 

[MotorSeven]

Ok, so let me ask y'all this. If ad's were screened for applicable content regarding each subforum, and they were embedded into the page you are now viewing, and were not tracking you...would you be ok with that?

 

[Loadstar]

Ok, so let me ask y'all this. If ad's were screened for applicable content regarding each subforum, and they were embedded into the page you are now viewing, and were not tracking you...would you be ok with that?

Yes. Some things are more appropriate. I have not viewed your add but with your intentions it's a good fit. I am on a truck forum and if I actually view it in HTML format where I see the adds it is only adds geared at my truck by vendors on that site. I'm fine with that. Another instance is adds on pandora radio because they are throwing darts in the dark as far as advertising. It is terrible which is maybe the reason people pay for it lol.

 

[Sysop]

Only advertising I'm ok with is ads that come directly off the server that is hosting the site (pretty-much non-existent). When I type www.whatever.blah I want every bit of info going in and out of my system to be to and from whatever.blah, not bits of their pages displaying content from servers such as doubleclick.

 

[daugen]

I think the reason I am not seeing banner ad's, or a lot of other ad's, is due to the fact I am using "disconnect me" to stop sites from tracking me.

could one of you very bright people please spend a minute and remind the rest of us how to block doubleclick specifically; do we type it in manually? I use Firefox btw. IE locks up/freezes up so often that I gave up on it.

I've said this before but flash a national Verizon ad on TBN or Citibank or... and I'm paying no attention to it. It's just junk
advertising that we are bombarded with everywhere we go.

 

[daugen]

now this is annoying. The banner ad recently is for Autozone, in SPANISH only. No subtitles, only a foreign language.
Do we really have any just Spanish speaking folk on this site? I don't think so....
Now this kind of advertising is just absurd.