eper ads

[dave]

this forum is full of posts from people who have been ripped off by mr clutch franchises, but ff eper is full of ads for them, can that they be blocked?

 

[craigb244]

i cant see any adds on ff eper?

 

[dave]

i cant see any adds on ff eper?

you using an ad blocker?

 

[Juggers2k]

It's giving me ads for 123-reg, and I spent a lot of the last few days looking at 123-reg's webhosting deals.

It looks like they're serving ads from one of the companies who use cookie tracking - your cookies give away the sites you've been looking at in the last few days / weeks, so they try to serve you related ads.

To test the theory, I just browsed to Mr Clutch and tried eper again - I then get Mr Clutch ads.

So if you're getting ads from them, it's probably because you've been on their website recently. Clear your cookies and they'll go away

 

[dave]

So if you're getting ads from them, it's probably because you've been on their website recently. Clear your cookies and they'll go away

nope never have, i was looking at gearbox's and components though on eper. i have hardly any cookies stored for IE i only use it for eper and elearn.

 

[Juggers2k]

i have hardly any cookies stored for IE i only use it for eper and elearn.

That would probably explain it. If it's not tracked you at other retailers then it'll probably pick what it considers the most relevant ads from its list, based on the content of the page.
Try browsing around a bit in IE and see if the ads change.

 

[dave]

how will that help member to not get ripped off though

 

[s130]

The code that displays these adds is:

<div style="position: absolute; left: 830px; top: 20px; height: 100%;">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3379779656896313";
/* Eper Skyscraper */
google_ad_slot = "9249638137";
google_ad_width = 160;
google_ad_height = 600;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

A simple solution for you/others is to add googlesyndication to your HOSTS file

Something like

127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com

This will tell windows/linux/network to replace all references to pagead2.googlesyndication.com to be replaced with/mapped to 127.0.0.1

127.0.0.1 is your machine so nothing will be loaded other than your browser saying it can display the target URL. Will also speed your ePER sessions up.

 

[dave]

i dont mind the ads, just this forum and others are full of posts from people who have been ripped off by mr clutch franchises, so that ad should be banned for all

 

[s130]

Looks like Ben (forum owner) made the decision to have ads on the ePER link. No doubt he gets some modest revenue for doing this that goes to help pay for the site hosting and traffic feed.

Guess you need to talk to Ben.

mrclutch.com IP address is 46.137.73.107

Maybe putting that in your hosts file will remove the MrClutch ads. Might make you feel a little better

 

[dave]

Guess you need to talk to Ben.

I thought that was what this section was for

 

[ben]

Why would an ad to Mr Clutch help people get ripped off? As said above, they are based on viewing habits (all my ads now are for interior racking) and supplied automatically by Google. It would be impossible to flag everything

 

[dave]

Why would an ad to Mr Clutch help people get ripped off?

they may go on eper to find new clutch, the add pops up they may click it, find its cheap and go use them