Approach_Medium
Trainz Addict
How do I opt-out of Trainz ads on my Facebook page?
This is going beyond what I could consider good advertising practice!
FW
This is going beyond what I could consider good advertising practice!
FW
Trainz ads on my Facebook page?
- Thread starter Approach_Medium
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A lot of sites are now beginning to mine data from your cookies and placing ads based on what they find into web pages you go to. Facebook, along with a lot of other social sites are especially vulnerable to them.
I use Firefox and one of the best Add-Ons you can use is called AdBlock Plus. This lets you right-click on an ad and choose 'Adblock Image' or 'Adblock Frame' to get rid of the ad forever. I don't know if this is available for IE as I don't use IE at all.
EDIT: For instance, the top of this very forum has ads in the upper right corner. I don't see them at all.
Bill
I use Firefox and one of the best Add-Ons you can use is called AdBlock Plus. This lets you right-click on an ad and choose 'Adblock Image' or 'Adblock Frame' to get rid of the ad forever. I don't know if this is available for IE as I don't use IE at all.
EDIT: For instance, the top of this very forum has ads in the upper right corner. I don't see them at all.
Bill
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Approach_Medium
Trainz Addict
I do use Firefox, but I thought there was a way to stop the ad before it actually got there, by opting out on my Auran profile, but I didn't find anything there.
I'll just do what you say, and Adblock the ads.
As for other cookies, I do not save any of them from the sessions, except the ones I choose to allow, which are only banking and other necessary ones.
FW
Well, FW, you're right and you're wrong. If that makes any sense.
The very first time Firefox shows you an ad, you right-click on it and use the Adblock menu to get rid of it. From then on, you'll never see that ad again unless you go into the Adblock menu and choose "Show blockable items" and 'unblock' that particular ad again. It will re-appear.
I love Adblock - especially on my newspaper web pages to kill all the ads that appear daily.
There is another add-on called Flashblock. This one shows you a white triangle in the middle of the flash movie frame that you have to click to start the movie running. This stops those moving ads on sidebars that keep running all the time.
I also kill cookies that I don't want.
Bill
The very first time Firefox shows you an ad, you right-click on it and use the Adblock menu to get rid of it. From then on, you'll never see that ad again unless you go into the Adblock menu and choose "Show blockable items" and 'unblock' that particular ad again. It will re-appear.
I love Adblock - especially on my newspaper web pages to kill all the ads that appear daily.
There is another add-on called Flashblock. This one shows you a white triangle in the middle of the flash movie frame that you have to click to start the movie running. This stops those moving ads on sidebars that keep running all the time.
I also kill cookies that I don't want.
Bill
You have to do a lot more than blocking cookies and deleting your cache though; there are many persistent methods that work across sessions. Most major sites have used these for many years and use it as a backup to cookies. The only significant protection again this is to place your browser in Private Browsing mode (in Firefox this would be under Tools->Options->Privacy->History->Firefox will Use Custom Settings->check Private Browsing.
AdBlock Plus works great, especially with the Easylist subscription. A HOSTS file is a great option too, especially for non-Firefox users, but you have to use a small one i.e. 100-200 lines at most. Fortunately, that's more than enough to block pretty much all ads, including those lovely fake ads that drop malware.
BTW, and this is not just directed at the OP but to everyone, I should point out that as a Facebook user, you pretty much signed your life away the moment you signed up for it. None of the revelations about Facebook's data collection process, ads, privacy, etc. were any surprise to anyone with more than an atom of common sense let alone any tech background, and what you have seen is probably only the tip of the iceberg. So the bad practice here was for you to get on FB to begin with. Did you really think no one was going to try monetize all the information you so freely give out? Did you really think FB spends hundreds of millions of dollars on servers and infrastructure and expect nothing in return?
AdBlock Plus works great, especially with the Easylist subscription. A HOSTS file is a great option too, especially for non-Firefox users, but you have to use a small one i.e. 100-200 lines at most. Fortunately, that's more than enough to block pretty much all ads, including those lovely fake ads that drop malware.
BTW, and this is not just directed at the OP but to everyone, I should point out that as a Facebook user, you pretty much signed your life away the moment you signed up for it. None of the revelations about Facebook's data collection process, ads, privacy, etc. were any surprise to anyone with more than an atom of common sense let alone any tech background, and what you have seen is probably only the tip of the iceberg. So the bad practice here was for you to get on FB to begin with. Did you really think no one was going to try monetize all the information you so freely give out? Did you really think FB spends hundreds of millions of dollars on servers and infrastructure and expect nothing in return?
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Retro00064
New member
Yeah, like those ultra-weird "Someone has a crush on you!" or "This Is Not A Joke - You are the 100,000th visitor!" ads.
:hehe:For some people, it might be worth it to block those humorous and weird ads just to preserve their sanity and to keep them from literally rolling on the floor laughing (while I have not laughed at the ads themselves, I am almost giggling from even mentioning them above
). 
If any of these plug-ins work in Internet Explorer 8, then I might have to check them out myself.
Regards.
IE 9 has the support built-in. Check under the Safety item on the tools/options menu.
John
Thank you for that advice Bill, I have now installed ABP as a FireFox add-on and it works brilliantly.
That it does. I really like being able to block out annoying visual ads that flutter around and jump up and down to get your attention. The best part is that once you block an ad it will remaim blocked no matter what web page or site it appears on.
Bill