Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 21, 2013

The ads that give me the willies are the anti-google ads telling me google reads every word of my gmails. Who are they to speak, following me around the web with their creepy eyes?

That reminds me, I need to go click on some ads at a certain guitar forum. It generates income for the forum owner, and he’s a good guy.

Reminds me of when I was at school, and all my friends would always ask “how can I clear out my Yahoo/Google search history, so my siblings/parents cant see what I’ve been searching?”

When you are not very computer knowledgable and inadvertently click on something (on your spouse’s computer ), sparks will fly. Been there, done that.

I think he clicked on some ‘adult’ pages and those amazing Google-eyes are now tracking him with that in its files.

Arlo doesntt need those Adult sites…he has Janis who provides all the adult action he could ever want…shes dreamy…

You are quite right. He was thinking of ordering some lingerie for Janis. Now all he sees are semi-naked women. Those who do not believe this should try it. Google (or froogle) “sexy lingerie”. Then watch how your web pages change. Not necessarily a good idea on systems used by the kids or work-based systems, unless you want to answer some questions.

Google’s targeted ads have prompted me to use DuckDuckGo more often now. Sadly, I still like Google’s shopping search.

Oh my, Arlo found one of those sites.

Reminds me of a story in the WSJ years ago called “My TIVO thinks I’m gay”. So the guy tries to fix it by watching manly things like westerns and kung fu movies and it just gets weirder.

Switch to Good Search. They donate one cent to any charity you want each time you use it. A penny is not much, but if enough people use it, it can add up pretty fast. Our private school has earned about $150 since last fall using it. Also it is powered by Yahoo.

Popup Blocker

I have Filipino inlaws and sometimes read news from the Philippines online. Now I keep getting ads to meet young women from the Philippines.

Arlo was simply making another one of his on-line lingerie purchases for Janis’ up-coming birthday present.

RESET! RESET! EMPTY CACHE! EMPTY CACHE! DELETE COOKIES! DELETE COOKIES!

AdBlock

Pop-up blockers and other sorts of animals are only partially effective and I’m loaded for bear. If there’s something to be sold out there, they’ll find a way to shove it onto your screen. I just roll my eyes and click it away. Or re-open with Chrome. Or re-re-open with Foxfire. THEN I get busy doing what jerrythemacguy just said !!

My anti-virus software blocks ads from known ad servers, not just pop ups. But Google’s g-mail has read your e-mails for years, it’s part of the agreement if you actually READ it….

Since I installed Adblock Plus, I do not get any of those things popping up. The ones I really hated were the rollover pop-ups. I was always activating them by accident. No more. Not even one.

I just changed my hosts file and now I am ad free on google and almost every other website.

The best cure for Googly Eyes is “ghostery.com.” Works with IE and Opera – cannot say for certain about Firefox, Safari, or Chrome.