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    Digital Sports Group .... ???

    I'm annoyed about a page that keeps appearing, headed 'Digital Sports Group' every time I click on the "reply with quote" button to post a reply and the box turns light blue. Seems I have to keep re registering to get back to normal. Any ideas lads?

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    Quote Originally Posted by seriouspie View Post
    I'm annoyed about a page that keeps appearing, headed 'Digital Sports Group' every time I click on the "reply with quote" button to post a reply and the box turns light blue. Seems I have to keep re registering to get back to normal. Any ideas lads?
    They own this site, well according to this undated announcement:

    http://www.digitalsportsgroup.co.uk/dsg-footymad.html

    How it behaves seems to depend on which browser is being used, and what blockers are in place. I'm fine with Firefox and Ublock Original. My mobile is ok with some browsers but not others.

    Edit: Deeper investigation shows just how many companies are on their list to drop cookies and god only knows what else onto your computer.

    What are you using?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Old_pie View Post
    They own this site, well according to this undated announcement:

    http://www.digitalsportsgroup.co.uk/dsg-footymad.html

    How it behaves seems to depend on which browser is being used, and what blockers are in place. I'm fine with Firefox and Ublock Original. My mobile is ok with some browsers but not others.

    Edit: Deeper investigation shows just how many companies are on their list to drop cookies and god only knows what else onto your computer.

    What are you using?
    Very strange Old'un ..... just had to re register!! I'm poor on PC knowledge but I use ******* + *******+ if this helps. I'm that thick that I don't understand what you mean by 'browsers' and I use an old Acer desktop PC. No worries I'll persevere and thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seriouspie View Post
    Very strange Old'un ..... just had to re register!! I'm poor on PC knowledge but I use ******* + *******+ if this helps. I'm that thick that I don't understand what you mean by 'browsers' and I use an old Acer desktop PC. No worries I'll persevere and thanks.
    I see Ad(b)lock has been eliminated but you know what I mean. I have the standard and the plus ones installed.

    F'me ..... bring back fountain pens and ink!

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    Chrome is not flash firefox seems ok

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    Quote Originally Posted by seriouspie View Post
    Very strange Old'un ..... just had to re register!! I'm poor on PC knowledge but I use ******* + *******+ if this helps. I'm that thick that I don't understand what you mean by 'browsers' and I use an old Acer desktop PC. No worries I'll persevere and thanks.
    a "browser" is simply which medium you are using to surf the web.....Firefox seems to be the favourite allied with ABP via the "tools" button to block ads, Google Chrome is probably 2nd fav and Tor is the one that you use in order to completely hide your "activity" on the web ie ordering a container of Columbian marching powder or buying a Forest season ticket.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tarquinbeech View Post
    a "browser" is simply which medium you are using to surf the web.....Firefox seems to be the favourite allied with ABP via the "tools" button to block ads, Google Chrome is probably 2nd fav and Tor is the one that you use in order to completely hide your "activity" on the web ie ordering a container of Columbian marching powder or buying a Forest season ticket.
    I too used to be a massive Firefox fan but eventually joined the Chrome majority as most sites nowadays are optimised for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SwalePie View Post
    I too used to be a massive Firefox fan but eventually joined the Chrome majority as most sites nowadays are optimised for it.

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    Thats desktop only though. 70% of internet browsing takes place on a mobile phone nowadays. On my own site 60% of traffic uses Safari and around 20% is Samsung browser.

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    I use a wide range of browsers, Firefox and Pale Moon mainly on the laptop, an older CM browers on the Android and playing with FOSS Browser. They all have either inbuilt or additions to stop ads. One thing I think I've noted but not really experimented with is that there appears to be a difference in behaviour as to whether you go to http://boards.footymad.net/ or https://boards.footymad.net/ , the latter seemingly more intrusive re cookies, Digital Media etc. Unless you are worried that someone might be intercepting your browsing of this site the http: is more than adequate for as long as they keep it and your browser allows non-https sites.

    Browsing the net really shouldn't be that hard but it seems that web developers insist on non-standard coding suiting one browser rather than another instead of adhering to W3C standards, plus constant barriers of accepting cookies with a list of advertisers as long as your arm. What the heck are these domains doing on this site:
    adtech.de
    ayads.co
    clevernt.com
    doubleclick.net
    google-analytics.com
    omnitagjs.com
    sunmediaads.com

    I used to set up my hosts file to direct these to 127.0.0.1 but haven't kept it up to date.

    The hosts file overrides where the site is found, and 127.0.0.1 is your own machine so it happily goes off to your own machine, finds nothing of course but carries on regardless without google-analytics or whatever being any the wiser. Well, that's how it used to work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Old_pie View Post
    I use a wide range of browsers, Firefox and Pale Moon mainly on the laptop, an older CM browers on the Android and playing with FOSS Browser. They all have either inbuilt or additions to stop ads. One thing I think I've noted but not really experimented with is that there appears to be a difference in behaviour as to whether you go to http://boards.footymad.net/ or https://boards.footymad.net/ , the latter seemingly more intrusive re cookies, Digital Media etc. Unless you are worried that someone might be intercepting your browsing of this site the http: is more than adequate for as long as they keep it and your browser allows non-https sites.

    Browsing the net really shouldn't be that hard but it seems that web developers insist on non-standard coding suiting one browser rather than another instead of adhering to W3C standards, plus constant barriers of accepting cookies with a list of advertisers as long as your arm. What the heck are these domains doing on this site:
    adtech.de
    ayads.co
    clevernt.com
    doubleclick.net
    google-analytics.com
    omnitagjs.com
    sunmediaads.com

    I used to set up my hosts file to direct these to 127.0.0.1 but haven't kept it up to date.

    The hosts file overrides where the site is found, and 127.0.0.1 is your own machine so it happily goes off to your own machine, finds nothing of course but carries on regardless without google-analytics or whatever being any the wiser. Well, that's how it used to work.
    google analytics is on any traffic site and is commonly used to present site owners with a ton of useful stats. I live in it. Most of the others are delivering cookie based ad content. For example I see adverts for stuff in AU and you probably see an advert for Boots, M& S and so on. http is not adequate at all as your password is being sent unencrtypted over the internet. Which means that even someone like me could work out how to intercept it and log in to your account on here find out your email address and if the password is the same as that cause mayhem. Worryingly the default setting for footy mad is http with no https redirect automatically which is dead easy to do and is pretty standard stuff nowadays. For this site users should make sure that their password is different to any others they use.

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