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Posted by marks542004 on June 13, 2005, 9:00 am
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Adrienne wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed marks542004@yahoo.com writing in
>
> > Hi, sorry if the title is confusing.
> >
> > I regularly visit a website whicg is a specialist website for custom
> > engineering products.
> >
> > The website puts up a banner ad about specials available from
> > associated businesses using my specific town name. (example: Get your
> > referance Books from Bookworld, xxxxxxx (my town name))
> >
> > Most of the time these make no sense whatever because my town is less
> > than 600 people.
> >
> > Anyway, they can not be getting the town name from the IP address
> > because I connect via dialup in another town and the ISP is based in a
> > third.
> >
> > How might a site legitimatly be getting this information or does this
> > indicate a virus of some type.
> >
> > It is just annoying because every time I access the site I get junk
> > email about products I have been looking at.
>
>
> Have you ever signed up with them for anything? Newsletter, login to view
> other parts of the site, etc? If so, there is probably a cookie set that
> looks at your city's id number and finds the appropriate ad. Clear your
> cookies, then set your browser to refuse cookies, and then visit the site.
>
> --
> Adrienne Boswell
> http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
> Please respond to the group so others can share
Not cookies - have deleted all cookies and allowed cookies for session
only.
A friend thought that there was information sent by the browser but did
not know where it got it from. My understanding was that the browser
only sends an ID string so the site can tell if it is Internet
explorer, Mozilla, etc.
The site is running a bunch of Javascript which I would disable but it
seems more sites are doing navigation via script.
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