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Old Jan 02, 2020, 10:29 AM
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Anxiety Princess Anxiety Princess is offline
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Originally Posted by Access Denied View Post
A possible reason for your seeing these ads may be because your PC's cookies were retained when you visited some of those sites, or likely those who had online association with those sites. When they recognised you were visiting even briefly, they requested you agree to their cookies, ie. by clicking "I agree", you gave cyber-consent. So when you visit forums such as PC here, any spaces in-between posts and topics will reveal advertising.

I don't use Windows 10 (thankfully yet). I am still using Windows 7. Therefore with regret, I wouldn't know how you would adjust your browser on '10'. But I hope your problem soon goes.
I'm on Windows 10, using the Microsoft Edge browser when I see the ads. I don't believe that it's got anything to do with the browser storing cookies in my case, because I restored the computer to factory default right before I joined PC, and I've only ever visited PC since it was restored. In addition, to cover my tracks (hide my browsing history) from my abuser (husband), I have my browser set to delete my history and cookies every time a tab is closed.

That being said, I've never had an advertisement when on Tapatalk using my android phone.

I'll install firefox on my computer this afternoon and start using that to see if the ads continue to show up, or they disappear.
Thanks for this!
Anonymous42019