On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:38:04 -0600, Swingman wrote:

On 2/28/2013 9:25 AM, Bill wrote:
On 2/28/2013 9:48 AM, Swingman wrote:
On 2/28/2013 8:33 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

If those ads were served by a third party (e.g. google ads), then it's
because you've allowed
them.

What an ignorant, bull**** attitude and remark ... what ****ing planet
you been living on?

Of course most websites with blogs these days ALLOW, and for heaven's
sake, ENCOURAGE, advertisers gasp ... especially those who produce
and/or stream video.

Bandwidth cost money, and monetizing a site, via advertising ... in case
that is something besides unmitigated ignorance you're exhibiting above
... is an everyday occurrence on the Internet these days

Get a ****ing clue, Bubba ... or No more Amazon, Lee Valley, Rockler,
YouTube, or any other modern website/blog for you.


Sounds like one of your feet is liberal (little regard for privacy) and
the other is conservative (show me the money). As usual, I guess, the
right answer lies in between.

Ignorance is no excuse ... in that regard, and in a nutshell, and
without getting too technical:

Websites/blogs do NOT, as a rule, keep the advertiser's "media"
(image/photo/banner adverts/etc) on their servers.

Scripts served up (which your browser ALLOWS, then executes, usually by
default), by the website/blogs you visit, contain links to the
ADVERTISER'S domain, on the advertiser's server.

That media (image/photo/banner ad/etc) is served up, by request (by an
http "get" in the ADVERTISER'S script when it is executed, client side,
which you ALLOW, or not), to _your_ web browser when you visit the
website/blog containing the adverts.

It is when that Advertiser's image/photo/banner ad/whatever is served up
on your screen (at the request of YOUR browser with that http "Get" in
the script, and that _you_ ALLOWED to be executed, client side) that the
"third party" cookie is also left.

So, in effect, it is YOUR browser _requesting (AND ALLOWING)_ the media
offered by the ADVERTISER (including executing the client side scripts
containing the links to advertisers domains), so you can view it on your
monitor.

Again, if you don't want the scripts and cookies, disable the scripts
from being executed on your (client) side, and the disable the ability
to leave the cookies, in _your_ browser, and live with any consequences,
if that is what YOU chose.

It is the way the "world wide web" works ... you either live with it and
learn to do so at your convenience; don't use it; or be subjected, like
a sheep, to the manipulation of others.

Your choice ... labels like "liberal", "conservative" or otherwise are
merely foolish contrivances which serve NO purpose in this regard.

+1

It is entirely up to the end user to allow or disallow any content,
and whether or not to tolerate the lack of functionality attached
to that content.
Websites can't "make" you do or accept anything.

basilisk