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Castle Courtyard => General Discussion / Questions => Topic started by: Paint Your Wagon on October 19, 2013, 06:28:10 AM

Title: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: Paint Your Wagon on October 19, 2013, 06:28:10 AM

On the summary page and on every topic page I get a grey band
with in very difficult to read whitish letters the sentence
" adds not by this site"
I read the HTML and it looks like Google adds took over

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: Triggersmob on October 19, 2013, 11:17:29 AM

I am not seeing anything out of the normal.

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: Nevol on October 19, 2013, 11:46:03 AM

No grey bands on my screen, and no odd lettering. 

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: Goose on October 19, 2013, 03:19:35 PM

Nothing on my screen.

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: AdamL on October 19, 2013, 04:34:25 PM

I have not seen them either.

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: Humpybong on October 19, 2013, 07:47:57 PM

KOTCT does not do ads in our castle.

Must be your ISP or your Browser........maybe download a new version of browser and remove old one first.

I keep 2 browsers going just for that purpose (Google Chrome and  Internet Explorer).
Used to use Firefox but found ads came thru them.

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: Paint Your Wagon on October 20, 2013, 12:45:16 AM

I have DONOTTRACKME on firefox 24
It says google analytics is in the castle and trying to track me

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: Paint Your Wagon on October 20, 2013, 12:48:34 AM

I visited a few other sites and got up to 5 companies trying to track me secretely
A few other sites got grey bands too when I block google analytics
So it looks if you do not know you are tracked you do not see the grey bands but
if you block google analytics up comes the grey bands

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: Pocketcoins on October 21, 2013, 02:38:17 AM

Here in the U.S. company's don't have to track us. The Gov. does it for them.  ;D

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: Templar on October 21, 2013, 05:51:35 AM

I have  not been bothered by such adds so far

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: Paint Your Wagon on October 21, 2013, 08:53:01 PM

After searching several hours I found "ads not by this site" is an adware malware program and it is not
recognised by any of the virus scanners I used but sits in firefox extensions

So I disabled all firefox addons and by trial and error found the extension is called magnipic 1.5
I do not even remember why I put it there if I did
So I deleted this extension and the problem is gone

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: longnine009 on October 30, 2013, 05:51:50 AM

They're watching  you August.   :D

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: Paint Your Wagon on October 31, 2013, 01:11:50 AM

Quote from: longnine009 on October 30, 2013, 05:51:50 AM

They're watching  you August.   :D

Like they say
It is not because you are paranoiac that nobody is out there to get you  :D

Today I installed NOSCRIPT and I was truly amazed that up to 8 different trackers
were tracking me even here in the castle
Google is the frontrunner with its analytics script

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: longnine009 on October 31, 2013, 01:42:13 AM

Google    Goog  Gog  My Google  MyGoog  
Mygog  Magog   oops  :o

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: Paint Your Wagon on October 31, 2013, 06:46:17 AM

Armstrong seems to be right about one thing
Every country is looking for money
The Germans have plans to tax everybody who uses their roads also tourists that
go thru germany on the way to austria ski vacation
Like 80 euro per year even if you use the roads only two days in a year

Nothing new there since the french have had tollways for as long as I can remember
but they were privately built and owned

Title: Re: Adds taking possession of the castle
Post by: longnine009 on October 31, 2013, 09:26:29 AM

Over here china will probably own our roads
and bridges, if they don't already.   >:(