Targeted adverts on the forum

[vladi]

Have noticed recently that, in the classified section of the forum, adverts are appearing that appear to be related my recent search words in Google. I find this very unsettling

Any one else noticed this behaviour?

[Administrator]

You have personalised ads enabled in your browser.

Most browsers have an option to disable personalised ads for all websites.

• If you're using iOS, go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Apple Advertising > DIsable Personalised Ads
• If you're using Chrome, there is an 'Ads Privacy' option in Settings

 

[Sally Eva]

Or use different browsers. Opera or Firefox block adverts by default.

 

[vladi]

Admin,

II do not want targeted advertising  as it makes me feel that I am being monitored, tracked and targeted.
I use Edge and had the relevant option turned off in Personalisation & advertising .
Kindly advise further on how this issue can be addressed.
 

Edited November 5, 2023 by vladi
clarification

[Administrator]

@vladi Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

The ads in the classifieds forum are by Google, who supply much of the internet's advertising.

The reason you might still be seeing personalised ads is because you are logged into your Google account, and you have personalised ads switched on. You can check this and disable it here: https://myadcenter.google.com/home

Disabling personalised ads there will turn them off for every website, not just this website.

[jazzer]

cookies - TURN OFF YOUR VENDOR PREFERENCES 

[Sue]

cookies - TURN OFF YOUR VENDOR PREFERENCES

Eh?

Edited December 1, 2023 by Sue
Quoting previous post

[vladi]

8 hours ago, jazzer said:

cookies - TURN OFF YOUR VENDOR PREFERENCES 

That depends on the browser, no?

[Twoddle]

Might I also suggest changing your default search engine to something like DuckDuckGo that doesn't track you at all. If you really want to see Google results from with DuckDuckGo you can just add !g to the beginning of the search as a one off.

On 05/11/2023 at 08:25, Sally Eva said:

Or use different browsers. Opera or Firefox block adverts by default.

 

Firefox has settings to block social media tracking scripts, cross-site cookies etc. If you want it to block ads you'll have to install an addon like uBlock Origin although youtube is starting to get funny over adblockers. You can still whitelist individual sites like this one to allow its ads.

[Sally Eva]

I use Firefox and Opera and I don't get ads in either. I haven't installed any adblockers. Probably in settings. I get asked about cookies in both and they are easy to reuse and delete

I don't use Chrome or google search.