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by thumbsup2 2 views

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Is it really necessary to allow ads on the TR web site which install tracking cookies? To be specific, the ad that loads up prior to the TR home page being displayed is dropping cookies on us. I delete the cookie and it's right back again next time I visit. I know you have to pay the bills, but come on guys! Can't you be more selective about it?

And, while I'm at it... NIX the danged Google ad server! It's slow, sometimes even non-responsive and hangs the TR forum from loading anything until the ad server has loaded it's trash. How about programming the web site so that it will load first and let the ad servers go blank forever if they can't perform?

How do the rest of you feel?

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by absolutely

ThumbsUp2: [i]How do the rest of you feel?[/i]

Inventive & industrious.

I have had very large hosts files for quite a while because of that kind of advertising and marketing research. Tracking cookies make me want to break down the door of the programmer that wrote them. Instead, I use hosts files, and recently obtained the assistance of more experience web content-filtering specialists. Now, instead of whatever rubbish the Management is trying to sell you today, just below "TechRepublic Featured Jobs," I see the word "advertisement," and just below that, a blank rectangle.

It doesn't do anything about bad layout and inefficient WYSIWYG coding, but it does keep out the very worst of the www:

www.squidguard.org

by cmiller5400

I use Firefox with Adblock Plus. I do not get any ads on my pages, and I also use SpywareBlaster to block cookies.

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