admin The Stig Administrator 3,078 Member For: 22y 2m 27d Gender: Male Location: Unknown Posted 19/10/03 11:58 PM Share Posted 19/10/03 11:58 PM Most of you may notice some ads at the bottom of the screen from Google.These ads have basically be put in place to increase income for the site, as the donations and sponsorship is not covering the cost of running the site.You may notice that some of the ads are relevant to the site and others are not, and you may also notice that a user Googlebot has been logged into the site.Basically the way the system works is that the Googlebot browses every page of the site and shows ads of relevance to the current page. As the forum is based on the XR6 Turbo and most threads are about Ford's you should see that the ads such as the one on the main page change to something which is more appropriate.We do apologise for having to ad extra load time to the site, but unfortunately due to costs we have had no other choice but to implement these ads on the site.We will trial this for the next two weeks, and if the ads have not adjusted to the correct relevance we will remove the code from the site.Kind Regards,FordXR6Turbo.com Team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEN 24T Gandalf the Grey, Maiar of Manwë and Varda, Team HgAg/Sneaky Member 7,371 Member For: 21y 6m 4d Gender: Male Location: The Shire, Middle Earth Posted 20/10/03 01:41 AM Share Posted 20/10/03 01:41 AM I have no problem with this Chris, just another example of good business sense ... Can you tell me if the act of loging onto the site will add any "adware" type components to my OS? I understand that cookies are used and that's fine, but I'm not happy if usage pattern monitoring stuff is installed ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin The Stig Administrator 3,078 Member For: 22y 2m 27d Gender: Male Location: Unknown Posted 20/10/03 01:55 AM Author Share Posted 20/10/03 01:55 AM I have no problem with this Chris, just another example of good business sense ... Can you tell me if the act of loging onto the site will add any "adware" type components to my OS? I understand that cookies are used and that's fine, but I'm not happy if usage pattern monitoring stuff is installed ... :oHi Ken,No definently not. Working in the IT industry i would not condone or use any sort of application/software which would invade user's or in my case our members privacy or security of their pc's.So nothing to worry about at all... In regards to cookies they are only used for the logging on and keeping you logged into the site, thats all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEN 24T Gandalf the Grey, Maiar of Manwë and Varda, Team HgAg/Sneaky Member 7,371 Member For: 21y 6m 4d Gender: Male Location: The Shire, Middle Earth Posted 20/10/03 01:57 AM Share Posted 20/10/03 01:57 AM Thanks Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRSICKT Member 1,032 Member For: 21y 8m 19d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 20/10/03 08:48 AM Share Posted 20/10/03 08:48 AM They don't bother me, I find them handy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavoWA Proud Team Blueprint member Member 286 Member For: 21y 8m 19d Location: Perth Posted 20/10/03 09:37 AM Share Posted 20/10/03 09:37 AM Hi Ken,No definently not. Working in the IT industry I would not condone or use any sort of application/software which would invade user's or in my case our members privacy or security of their pc's.So nothing to worry about at all... In regards to cookies they are only used for the logging on and keeping you logged into the site, that's all.Just another fine example of why we keep visiting this site (PS - Not to mention listening to Kens' words of wisdom ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEN 24T Gandalf the Grey, Maiar of Manwë and Varda, Team HgAg/Sneaky Member 7,371 Member For: 21y 6m 4d Gender: Male Location: The Shire, Middle Earth Posted 20/10/03 09:47 AM Share Posted 20/10/03 09:47 AM ... listening to Kens' words of wisdom Now I know you're taking the piss ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guests Posted 25/01/04 05:36 AM Share Posted 25/01/04 05:36 AM I thought it was slow now, Ive only got dailup,takes ages.vik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richdave SLOJAM, Gone but not forgotten Lifetime Members 1,841 Member For: 22y 2m 23d Gender: Male Location: Outer east - Melbourne Posted 25/01/04 06:50 AM Share Posted 25/01/04 06:50 AM Iv'e never seen a single ad that was not from a sponsor....?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJF077 The Noble Leader Administrator 4,786 Member For: 22y 2m 22d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Australia Posted 25/01/04 12:10 PM Share Posted 25/01/04 12:10 PM Iv'e never seen a single ad that was not from a sponsor....?? It was installed and removed within about a week.As for dialup being slow, this should be rectified int he new design.Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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