TheCatsDomain.Com Message Boards: Targeted Advertisement

This is topic Targeted Advertisement in forum Civil Debate - Politics and Other Hot Button Topics at TheCatsDomain.Com Message Boards.

To visit this topic, use this URL:
https://www.thecatsdomain.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=38;t=002531

Posted by Old Norm (Member # 1482) on 06-15-2020, 04:50 PM:

My anger management is about to go out of the window. Microsoft updated my Edge browser, and now my AT&T/Yahoo email page has targeted ads placed on on the top of the place my new emails used to appear..... all alone. I can ignore them, but they do not have a delete button like all my others do. If I open one and delete it, a brand new one pops up in it's place. They told me I could opt out, and linked me to a page where to do it, but after searching those pages for about thirty minutes, I still have not figured out just exactly HOW to opt out. I have officially reached the limits of my patience!

[ 06-15-2020, 04:51 PM: Message edited by: Old Norm ]

Posted by MEL (Member # 141) on 06-15-2020, 11:31 PM:

Wish I could help you Norm but I don't know diddley about computers, browsers and such.

MEL

Posted by Old Norm (Member # 1482) on 06-16-2020, 08:26 AM:

The ads are gone. I found a link to "where to unsubcribe" but after reading everything on that page, did not find an actual unsuscribe button. I don't know how it happened, but they are gone. I really do not like the upgraded "Microsoft Edge" browser, and if I knew how, I would dump it and go back to the old one.

Posted by Tiptree (Member # 844) on 06-16-2020, 12:11 PM:

I suggest you switch to either Chrome or Firefox. Just download them and install them. They are both light-years better than Edge.

Posted by Old Norm (Member # 1482) on 06-16-2020, 01:39 PM:

I already had Firefox loaded. I did update it and added a "read aloud" app. I forget the name of it, but it works well. I intend to hide the Edge icon on my task bar.