It's a Google world

[justice]

 But in pulling a couple of screenshots for Local University Advanced on Thursday, this one for “pizza” really struck me.

from http://www.davidmihm...m/blog/google/world/

2008 comparison shot:
https://twitter.com/...493662257152/photo/1

Personally I haven't been able to replicate this though, was wondering if you had?

[4wd]

Comodo Dragon with AdBlock Plus, Do Not Track Plus & Ghostery installed and enabled.....and still the ads get through.



If I put it into Incognito mode then they stop.

Interestingly, if I disable AdBlock Plus, DNTP & Ghostery I get two sponsored ads instead of one.


Makes me glad I use Firefox

[Tuxman]

Interestingly, people still use Google.

[Jibz]

No adds here using Crome with AdBlock -- have you tried clicking that "why these adds?" link and see if it's something you can disable perhaps?

[tomos]

No adds here using Crome with AdBlock -- have you tried clicking that "why these adds?" link and see if it's something you can disable perhaps?

-Jibz (June 06, 2012, 12:56 PM)

No adds here using FF & Adblock - I wonder is it a European vs. US thing (me & Jibz being in eu/europe)

[Jibz]

No adds here using Crome with AdBlock -- have you tried clicking that "why these adds?" link and see if it's something you can disable perhaps?

-Jibz (June 06, 2012, 12:56 PM)

No adds here using FF & Adblock - I wonder is it a European vs. US thing (me & Jibz being in eu/europe)

-tomos (June 06, 2012, 01:05 PM)

Good point.

[4wd]

No adds here using Crome with AdBlock -- have you tried clicking that "why these adds?" link and see if it's something you can disable perhaps?

-Jibz (June 06, 2012, 12:56 PM)

No adds here using FF & Adblock - I wonder is it a European vs. US thing (me & Jibz being in eu/europe)

-tomos (June 06, 2012, 01:05 PM)

Good point.

-Jibz (June 06, 2012, 02:57 PM)

I'm down under

But yes, I tried disabling/enabling AdBlock/DNTMP/Ghostery a few times, (this is only in Dragon), and it's come good, ie. no ads.  Don't know what happened, maybe it managed to sneak in an extension update while I wasn't looking.

Firefox, (plus addons), has always blocked the ads - that's my main browser.  Dragon is my portable browser.

[zridling]

Most google search results now are tied to your location and social network. Start by getting rid of that Gmail account if you have one.

[justice]

I'm not sure why you think this is a personal problem, it's not my screenshot maybe read the articles

[TaoPhoenix]

Yikes. They must also have some kind of location thing using your IP address by region because when I type "pizza" I get *eight* listings for local restaurants in my town! I'm not even logged in to any Google services!   

I don't yet know what I have to fiddle with to turn that off. 

[TaoPhoenix]

Good enough that I don't use Google anyway. I've used Startpage or the related Ixquick (one day when startpage was misbehaving on me). Not many ads there.

[Jibz]

I'm not sure why you think this is a personal problem, it's not my screenshot maybe read the articles

-justice (June 07, 2012, 03:48 AM)

Probably because with the hline and everything the links at the bottom of your post look more like a signature to me than part of the post .

[Josh]

Does anyone know how to remove the "google ads" from the results listings using either ABP or ad muncher?

[4wd]

Yikes. They must also have some kind of location thing using your IP address by region because when I type "pizza" I get *eight* listings for local restaurants in my town! I'm not even logged in to any Google services!  

-TaoPhoenix (June 07, 2012, 04:11 AM)

They've had IP based ads for years - although I don't normally see them due to Firefox addons.

Does anyone know how to remove the "google ads" from the results listings using either ABP or ad muncher?

-Josh (June 07, 2012, 05:04 AM)

Here's mine for AdBlock:

It's a Google world

It's a Google world

And when you open AdBlocks Blockable Items list, I have:

It's a Google world

The three items blocked are: Bottom Ads, Right-Hand-Side Column and Top Ads.