Has anyone else noticed that The Sportsman's Guide add banners are adaptive now. I guess they are storing info in cookies on you machine or something because whenever I see one of their add banners now it is showing me deals on items that I recently looked at.

 

For me, this is driving me away. I am actually less likely to use their website because I do not want to be marketed to in this way. Anyone else hating on this too, or am I just an old fart?

 

Edited: Stalking, not Stocking.

Edited October 2, 201214 yr by TheDon

it is google, every time i look at an item online it shows those items..

If you aren't already get rid of IE and get Firefox, then get two key add-ons, AdBlock Plus and Do Not Track plus.

There is an excellent Add-On call Ghostery. It will show you unobtrusively any and all tracking cookies for a site and you can have it deny the cookies automatically, set exceptions etc. Together with AdBlockPlus it is a good set of tools.

 

For example on this forum we have Google +1 and Google Analytics, which are being blocked by my Ghostery.

 

In reality though - you are an old fart :-) The Internet is the way forward and the store is just trying to up-sell and cross-sell which is no different to what happens in the real bricks and mortars stores although on the Internet they can tie in more quickly to what you are looking at.

 

I dislike advertisting of items that has no relevance to the website I am looking at, however when shopping at an on-line store I don't have an issue with the store showing me special offers.

 

Just my view though

 

TheWombat

SG is horrific though. Your orders come in with ads from all over the place. (Some not pertaining to shooting/hunting at all). Then the emails start in...ohhhh the emails about evvverything. I knew something was up when you had to deny becoming a member 3 times during the order process. : )

TOR Browser all way.

Sportsmans guide does not stock me, I am one of a kind and I am out of stock everywhere.

I think you mean stalking? I noticed the SG profiling a while back but dont care, when I log on its for something I already want and just prompt to it and checkout. SG is just a quick stop for me to buy ammo or a great deal on acc's with the free ships.Same thing when the box arrives. Take out the goods, grab the receipt to shred-done, off to recycling. Dont even look at whatever's in the box. Treat it like junkmail, from the mailbox to the recycling box. I've got other things to care about.

I have some special ad-ons and plugins, but they are very complicated.

 

I have Javascript and Cookies disabled. I don't need to see adds and flash garbage all over the place. I enable cookies for sites where I log in and enable JS in the very few instances where I need it. I don't need it here, for example.

 

See how complicated that was?

 

Also, I add sites to my hostfile so my computer directs to oblivion when the url is on a webpage. At the top of the list is Google.

Cookies are going to go the way of the Dinosaur by 2014, since HTML 5 is going to be the new standard. They'll still be used, but not to the extent they are now. All your information will be stored on your computer. In fact, thats probably what SG is doing right now. Wouldn't surprise me one bit really.

 

But if you want to stop it, ad-block plus and no-script are the tools to use to block things like this. As a plus, if a site is infected with a rouge file, no script will stop it from executing and taking you to different web pages than what you typed in.

Has anyone else noticed that The Sportsman's Guide add banners are adaptive now. I guess they are storing info in cookies on you machine or something because whenever I see one of their add banners now it is showing me deals on items that I recently looked at.

 

For me, this is driving me away. I am actually less likely to use their website because I do not want to be marketed to in this way. Anyone else hating on this too, or am I just an old fart?

 

I noticed it too but now I just don't look at any ads that are on the web pages since I know I'm being pushed ad materials based on where I've been.

Hey, welcome to ten years ago. Pretty much every website stores your recent search information to personalize the ads for you.

 

Look into browser plug ins to eradicate this if you find it bothersome.

If you aren't already get rid of IE and get Firefox, then get two key add-ons, AdBlock Plus and Do Not Track plus.

 

thank you!!!!

Yeah, another ABP user here, can't live without it! :-)

Also clear out your Adobe Flash cookies - separate from the cookies your browser attempts to store.

 

I forget offhand how to do it manually, but there are articles out there that illustrate how.

 

If you are on a Mac, the app PrivacyScan has this as one of its options.

I discovered that I could opt out of those targeted ads by clicking the upper right corner of the ad which takes me to adchoices and lets me opt out of the targeted ad.

Not just SG. I've found that if I searching for something it winds up coming up. I've gotten a couple questions from the wife like, are you looking for a new backpack...tent...zombie tracker...etc.

 

We have a common PC for the family so the parents can monitor what goes on. So on a side note, if Santa is browsing for stuff, you don't want the kids seeing the American Girl doll ad popping up every time she is playing her games.

would you rather have viagra ads?

would you rather have viagra ads?

 

They don't sell me blue pills, they try to push penis length pills on me. I know which of my ex's they talked to