Ok because my relatives have a hissy about how computers aren’t supposed to be used for mbs and other “useless” things I view the sdmb through in the in private viewing option so it dosent show in in the history and such
Now I bought a subscription Saturday and still get the ads when I come ot the main page …it is because of the in private feature or no ones caught up to my subscription yet?
Are you logging in with your user name and password each time? IIRC, when using the private window feature it’s necessary to log back in each time you come back after having closed the private window. If you’re not properly logged in you won’t be identified as a subscriber.
I get the ads when I first come to the page but not after I sign in …I wondered if there was some tracking cookie I was missing so I didn’t get them when I went to the main page
or did I need to skip going to the main page ?
If I recall correctly, there’s an ad that should only show once per day on the main Straight Dope page (the one with the column) and there’s a second ad that again should only show once per day on the SDMB main page. I don’t think these ads check to see if you are a member first before displaying. I don’t think the main Straight Dope page is really aware of your message board status at all.
If you are a paying member and you are signed in, you shouldn’t see any other ads. Guests see ads interspersed through the posts and at the bottom (and maybe the top) of the page, and they receive that new docked ad as well. There might be some more, not sure. Paying members shouldn’t see any of these as long as they are signed in.
If you skip the main page you’ll skip the ad that goes with it.
If you see the Straight Dope page ad or the main SDMB ad more than once per day, you probably have a cookie problem. They set cookies so that they won’t be displayed again for 24 hours.
One of the effects of private viewing is that you don’t store cookies. So yes, that would account for “a cookie problem”.
Yes, you won’t be able to use cookies at all when using the private option. The best idea would be to browse normally then ask the browser to delete all recent cookies, with the period set for the time you were on SDMB, and to delete history for the same period. You will then leave no trace of having been here
thanks for thea nswers yall the best …usually …
I’m pretty sure this is false. I think in-private browsing stores cookies for that session and then chucks them when you close the window. I’m nearly positive that’s how Chrome works (otherwise, how could I be typing this reply from a private window in Chrome?).
My bad. I just tried it in Firefox and you’re quite right. :smack:
Ed: maybe I was thinking of the Tor browser.
Notice how I avoided saying that I’m pretty sure it works because otherwise how would search engines remember my Safe Search Off setting. I completely avoided mentioning that. Brilliance on my part, really.
Preview, no wait, Submit, no hold it! Darn editing window!
I personally wouldn’t mind a private browsing mode that would let you keep login cookies from regular mode. The privacy concern is fairly minimal–as long as you don’t do other stuff on that site.
But it’s easier to just block all cookies, so that there will definitely be no link to the other mode. And you can always use saved logins to log back in.
That is, if you’d even want to. If you’re in private mode, you’re probably planning to use a different account. The only reason I can think not to is that you are using private mode for reasons not anticipated by its developers.
Private mode is intended to cut both ways. It won’t remember what you did, but it also prevents sites you visit from discovering things about you. So your existing non-private cookies are not visible.
You can’t stop a site you visit from scanning a great deal of information your browser carries, so private mode takes the attitude that if you want to be private, you should be private, and it doesn’t carry your set of cookies and other information from your non-private mode. In private mode, if you don’t explicitly allow a visited site to know who you are, it won’t tell them
In reality, browser fingerprinting leaks a lot of information anyway, enough to perform remarkably good user between site user tracking. But it is still vastly less useful (useful in a bad way) than having access to cookies.