2012-01-21T18:14:42+00:00 Zend_Feed_Writer https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/709 AUGW info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ 2012-01-15T14:58:50+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/709#3162 Thomas Maude info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Does anyone understand how the ads work in Safari. I mean for example if you have been searching for sports shoes and also pine furniture so you've been looking at a range of pages for these items. When you are then on another site completely, say youtube ( could be any ) then the ads that come up scrolling in there are related to ...sports shoes and pine furniture !! Is there any way you can disable that kind of tracking inside the preferences of Safari ? and if so could you please explain it as simply as possible. Many Thanks Tom 2012-01-16T16:13:18+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/709#3164 Thomas Maude info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Come on you Safari boffins ! surely this little blighter hasn't got you .....has it ! Tom 2012-01-16T16:28:36+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/709#3165 Euan Williams info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Hi Tom (you're getting impatient in your old age!) Try this: Open Safari, open Safari-preferences, select 'privacy', look for 'Cookies' and then 'details'. All the cookies installed on your Safari are in there and you can delete according to need. Remember that some sites don't work properly if their cookie isn't available, so don't delete wholesale. Good luck. 2012-01-17T22:00:11+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/709#3171 Thomas Maude info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Thank you Euan for a valiant effort but it's not the cookie thing that is causing it specifically. When upgrading to the latest Safari a few weeks ago I happened across a mac forum which I can't remember which one it was but in there they where reviewing and cross referencing it with firefox and other browsers. There was a discussion around lot's of things ..one of which was somthing that comes with the browser ( the exact name and description of which eludes me ) but which means that even if you remove the cookies this something which is buried in the depths of the browser retains item's for sale you have been looking at and displays them at a later date. This code that comes with the browser is a recent inclusion and they where discussing the merits and morals of if it should be included. There was I think also a description of how to over ride it as well which meant disabling something that wasn't the cookies. More than that I can't remember and maybe when I have the time I will try to search out the description ....but I wondered 1. if the ads and how they appear at a later date was a common thing others had noticed during their browsing 2. I was hoping ( as you do ) that someone in our group was across this already and would be able to clarify and enlarge on my rather sketchy and amateur description. Tom 2012-01-17T22:41:09+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/709#3172 Thomas Maude info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ This was a couple of the threads I think http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/15675/apple-safari http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39587/ipurge-safari-caches 2012-01-18T10:44:20+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/709#3173 Mick Burrell info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Thomas - I'm running Safari 5.1.2 and don't have the problems you do although I haven't done anything 'clever' with my installation. Could you perhaps point me to some of the sites where you looked at items with a view to buying and then had their adverts keep reappearing? I'll have a look and see if it happens to me. 2012-01-18T13:12:41+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/709#3174 Eric Jervis info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ I've noticed this; I suspect eBay as it's the site I use most for buying things. I also use eBay.fr and there is definitely a close relationship there, as the English site frequently assumes that I want items delivered to my French address, and vice versa. 2012-01-21T18:14:42+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/709#3184 Gordon Clyne info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ a suggestion is as follows, ..... Somewhere there is a text file that has your recent typings in the google search field in Safari, and the site that seems to know where you have been is using this and is firing a javascript to read it and match it with an ad search. that is my suspicion, but it is only an educated guess. youd need to forensically examine the lastsession.plist, and stuff stored in the user library /safari/localstorage folder but there could be other files sprayed anywhere that apps such as Glims use to seem smart.