 Confuse Google
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Check Pants
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Check Pants
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Let's say you search the web for a bike tire, now wherever you navigate, even though you decided on and bought a tire 5 days ago, it's tire flashing ads, dropdowns and pop ups ad infinitum.
Send this passage to yourself via email:
" Sam!
A loud ringing of one of the bells was followed by the appearance of a
smart chambermaid in the upper sleeping gallery, who, after tapping at
one of the doors, and receiving a request from within, called over the
balustrades -'Sam!"
Now checkout the lack of ads thrown at you, Google doesn't have a clue how to link that meaningless passage to a personalized ad campaign. Try it, it works everytime I have used it so far.
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Re: Confuse Google
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Loquacious
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Loquacious
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Have you tried "Adfender" Ryk? I use it and the ads are few now.Free download.
Dinosaur.
"Oh Man I only ride 'em.I don't know what makes 'em work". Donald "Oddball" Sutherland
"Don't let the bastards get you down". Kris Kristofferson
"I am only paranoid because everyone is against me". Larry [Frank Burns] Linville
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Re: Confuse Google
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Check Pants
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Check Pants
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I'll check it out, Paul, Thanks
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Re: Confuse Google
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Adjunct
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Recently loaded an updated ad blocker myself and things are much better on the ad supported sites / search engines.
Went with Adguard. Search and you will find a few options, I'm using an older MAC machine browsing with Firefox.
09 America, some modifications
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Re: Confuse Google
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Quote:
I'll check it out, Paul, Thanks
No worries. 
Dinosaur.
"Oh Man I only ride 'em.I don't know what makes 'em work". Donald "Oddball" Sutherland
"Don't let the bastards get you down". Kris Kristofferson
"I am only paranoid because everyone is against me". Larry [Frank Burns] Linville
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Re: Confuse Google
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Joined: Nov 2009
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Loquacious
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Ryk do you use Google mail or does that refer to any server? I am not sure how sending that to my Rogers account will do anything but worth a try.
Then maybe I'll try Adfender because I am sure the speed of my relatively new computer is slowed by all the advertising.
Last edited by SMJoe; 08/28/2016 2:45 PM.
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Re: Confuse Google
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Check Pants
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Check Pants
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Yepper, I have a gmail account. I downloaded Adfender. The BS definitely slowed down.
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Should be Riding
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Should be Riding
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Epic Browser. Ghostery plugin or Ghostery browser if mobile. Pale Moon too. Google blows. Try alternative search engines like DuckDuckGo, etc. On iOS stuff reset often the advertising Privacy>Advertising>Reset Advertising Identifier and while there toggle Limit Ad Tracking. Although it is kinda funny when the wife picks up her ipad and all these adds for motorsickle stuff pollute her web pages. 
Blowing gravel off rural roads
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Saddle Sore
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Saddle Sore
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Motorsickle ads would be a lot better than ads for hot MILF' s nearby. 
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