Ad Blockers highly recommended

[rdwyer]

Ads, tracking cookies, etc is what he's talking about. I use Adguard. As you can see, many websites are now tracking you.

[Snapolit1]

Jeez. Every time I click on CNN or Marketwatch I assume I'm being tracked by 1000s of sites. If this kind of crap keeps me up at night I'd be trully insane.

I'm sure there is also a setting on Firefox so you can block all of this in a matter of seconds.

[steve B]

I'm not familiar with any of those blockers.

The cumulative numbers may be time related. The cycling ad may have to request "new" graphics for each change, so over a period of time the number could get pretty high.

Some ads also keep trying if they're blocked, which would also increase the count.

Although, all the ones I have currently are static, and are just .GIFs so there shouldn't be much going on there.

I had a glitch a while back, maybe two years or more where I was getting the weird hover over ads where random words appear as links. Turned out to be some adware that had downloaded from a site that had a bunch of those, (And was probably something like a legit news site if I remember it right) Finding and removing it fixed the problem.

Steve B

[rdwyer]

I also use Blur. 33,932 trackers blocked since April 16th.

[ksabet]

not to sound like a kissass but I try to actually click the ads when I go to any auction sites.

I am assuming by clicking on the links it somehow helps this board.