Political Ads
 

I realize that advertising income is necessary to support the forum, but if blatantly false political ads with completely discredited claims are going to become frequent, I think I'll be limiting my visits until after November.

I can understand the feeling.
I believe the ads come from Google.

The site doesn't choose the ads. Google provides different ads to different viewers based on their database of each person's search and browsing history. So that ad was chosen for you, specifically, by Google, based on what it thinks you look at on the Web. OrchidBoard has nothing to do with it. Each one of us sees different ads that are based on our search and browsing history.

Yes, the ad was clearly targeted for someone in my state. Regardless of the lack of control over ads, when that kind of thing is what I see while I wait several minutes for each page to load it will limit my use.

What you can do is, before loading this site, delete cookies both through your browser and on your computer. If you have windows, do a search for 'cook,' select Delete cookies/history. After doing this, go into your browser and get rid of the cookies. I do this even if I browse incognito as it seems to help. I also use an anti-malware program that deletes cookies. I find that gets rid of nearly all the targeted ads. :)

I just pretty much pay no attention to them. I can't see getting to upset by these type of things.

I live in Canada and still get all the American ads because we use satellite TV. It just seems to be what we have to put up with during an American election. On here, I am almost blind to the ads. I just don't pay attention. But many of them are certainly based on your browsing history and location.

Several months ago,my son installed something called "AdBlock". I'm not techy and cannot explain further but it works!

LMAO.
It's worse on FaceBook.

What you can do if you use Chrome as a browser is go to the Chrome store and download Adblock for free. I've used it for years and I see absolutely zero ads. It's great.

Another happy Adblock Plus user here:)

Another thing that could help...remove the name of the city you live in and go with something like "SE Wisconson".

I use "Heartland of Florida" and I don't get/see any political ads because that's not the name of a town/city here..it's a regional "name" like "The Sunshine Coast", "The Golden Mile", or The Space Coast".

Political ads can't find you if they don't know where you are (hehehehe).

If you do this, do it while you delete your cookies.


I don't think it's really relevant that other members know the city/town any of us live in from our profiles.
I don't think these ads will follow anyone if we tell our town/city in a post.

Just install adblock plus on either chrome or mozilla, dont think Edge and IE have any ad block system. Opera and maxthon is another alternatives. Maxthon is a light weight browser, but it does comes with some neat features.

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They know where you live because your Internet service provider tells them.

Odd...I'm on numerous political sites and I get a number of "newsletters" and yet, I have never seen a political ad on here. With that said, I also don't really pay attention to them so it's quite possible I just missed them. I think the ads are worse on many other sites so, for me, it's not a big deal over here.

If you ever spend any time on a news/political site...the ads are overwhelming and the pop-ups are beyond annoying. And this happens even with my pop-up blockers turned on! Thanks for the heads up on the ad blocker...will be installing it immediately.

I get ads for items I've already shopped for. :roll:

Bet they'd pay a fortune for an algorithm that accurately PREDICTS what I'm going to buy.

You can remove/change many of them.

***BRB, have to log out to see them.***

Click "x" in the corner of the ads if there is one. Click on "Stop seeing this ad". Next choose between Repetitive, Inappropriate and Irrelevant. You'll get new different ads.

Ya wanted to know what ads are really b*tches (don't know if ir proper to spell that out completely) are those animated ads..the ones that have movement in them.

Talk about slowing down an already slow navigating.
Or logging-in. Oh the fun I just has cause of them.

Oh well.
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