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Post by Mark R. on May 14, 2012 15:16:25 GMT -8
Sure didn't take long for all the advertising and tracking cookies to appear !
Every page I go to now, I'm warned of anywhere from one to three tracking cookies being downloaded to my computer. Fortunately, I have my system configured to warn me of these tracking cookies so I can immediately delete them, but it is rather annoying.
Usually sites give you a full month free before you have to start paying to keep the site ad free. Bummer.
Mark.
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Post by Donnell Wells on May 15, 2012 5:25:38 GMT -8
Hi Mark,
We only had two weeks of ad-free forum time, and it was rather nice. Yeah...it's one of the unfortunate "benefits" of having "free" server space to host a "free" forum.
Honestly though, I think I'm going to spend the $7 to become ad-free once again.
Donnell
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Post by keystonecrossings on May 15, 2012 6:56:13 GMT -8
Honestly though, I think I'm going to spend the $7 to become ad-free once again. Donnell You do know that is "monthly", right?  I'll put up with it. |
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Post by Donnell Wells on May 15, 2012 8:38:15 GMT -8
Yeah, I know...I'll play it by ear.
Donnell
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Post by Mark R. on May 15, 2012 13:33:53 GMT -8
And that $7.00 only covers 50,000 page views per month !
Based on 200 members and over 300 guests, each person has only to look at three pages (not topics, PAGES) each day to chew up that 50,000 views.
Come to this site, one page view - open a sub-section, two page views - open a topic, three page views. If everyone only looked at ONE topic, only ONCE per day - there goes the ad-free service.
Starting to understand why it cost Atlas so much to keep the old board running so clean ?
Mark.
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Post by rhpd42002 on May 15, 2012 14:20:40 GMT -8
And that $7.00 only covers 50,000 page views per month ! Based on 200 members and over 300 guests, each person has only to look at three pages (not topics, PAGES) each day to chew up that 50,000 views. Come to this site, one page view - open a sub-section, two page views - open a topic, three page views. If everyone only looked at ONE topic, only ONCE per day - there goes the ad-free service. Starting to understand why it cost Atlas so much to keep the old board running so clean ? Mark.  OUCH!!! While only slightly annoying, I pretty much ignore the ads. If I want something, I usually know where to get it or ask the knowledgeable folks here about where to find it!!  |
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Post by Mark R. on May 15, 2012 14:43:52 GMT -8
What I find annoying is my AVG Resident Shield keeps popping up on every page warning me of tracking cookies that I have to delete.
If you don't have a tracker on your anti-virus system, those tracking cookies are automatically being downloaded to your computer without you even knowing it.
Just to get to this page to post this reply, I was bombarded by no less than five tracking cookies.
Mark.
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Post by riggelweg on May 15, 2012 16:33:44 GMT -8
What I find annoying is my AVG Resident Shield keeps popping up on every page warning me of tracking cookies that I have to delete. If you don't have a tracker on your anti-virus system, those tracking cookies are automatically being downloaded to your computer without you even knowing it. Just to get to this page to post this reply, I was bombarded by no less than five tracking cookies. Mark. What browser are you using? I use Firefox, and I have the Ghostery extension/add-on installed, as well as NoScript and BetterPrivacy. Ghostery blocks these trackers, such as Gigya socialize, Google analytics, etc., from this site in the background. I highly recommend using Firefox. I'm a dummy with these things, but it wasn't hard to install Firefox and these extension. |
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Post by riggelweg on May 15, 2012 16:34:26 GMT -8
Just ran a virus check, and I have no tracking cookies ;D
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Post by Mark R. on May 15, 2012 18:39:26 GMT -8
A virus scanner won't catch tracking cookies .... unless you have an add-on specifically designed to do so. Tracking cookies aren't considered a virus.
I use AVG 2012 with the Resident Shield add-on which catches most all tracking cookies, spyware and trojans. I also regularly run Malware-bytes which does a good job of cleaning up any remnants. I have my Resident Shield configured to warn me every time it catches a tracking cookie. This way I can manually delete them as I go instead of (hopefully) relying on the system to automatically delete them when found. It's amazing just how many tracking cookies there are on sites when you are alerted to them. Most sites usually only have one when you first open the site - this site has at least one to three per opened page.
Should it be a concern ? I dunno.
Mark.
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Post by riggelweg on May 17, 2012 17:19:19 GMT -8
Yes, usually the virus scanner won't catch it.
I have Norton with the malware add-on. It picks up tracking cookies during scans. I can't say whether it picks them all up, but Firefox appears to be blocking most in the background.
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