October 6, 20214 yr Just now, pete_auau said: think they already got your data 🙂 Well I lived in Beijing long ago so they certainly do Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
October 6, 20214 yr I wonder if politicians and governments have as much access to your privacy as do advertisers? What about telephone companies? Can they monitor your calls for gathering and collecting information? What about those devices you put on your coffee table and are connected to the internet when you ask it questions? Do they collect and sell that data? Although it probably won't do any good I won't click on any ads anymore while I am on line. I wonder if new television sets have listening devices built in to mine your personal data. Do they know what programs I watch and what times of the day I watch television? It seems like government agencies and advertisers know more about me than God knows. Noel Edited October 6, 20214 yr by birdguy The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
October 6, 20214 yr 4 minutes ago, birdguy said: I wonder if politicians and governments have as much access to your privacy as do advertisers? What about telephone companies? Can they monitor your calls for gathering and collecting information? What about those devices you put on your coffee table and are connected to the internet when you ask it questions? Do they collect and sell that data? Although it probably won't do any good I won't click on any ads anymore while I am on line. I wonder if new television sets have listening devices built in to mine your personal data. Do they know what programs I watch and what times of the day I watch television? It seems like government agencies and advertisers know more about me than God knows. Noel The answer is yes to most if not all of your questions
October 6, 20214 yr Huh. Nothing with Firefox running Ghostery and AdBlocker Ultimate, both free. Whatever they harvest about me from AVSIM is pretty benign. Haven't noticed airplane spam. Looks like it might be "Google Tag Manager." But, yeah, anyone who thinks what goes on online stays online is naive. I know for a fact the FBI somehow finds far more actionable items than they could possibly prosecute, for which I am grateful because internet offenses were my absolute least favorite type of case. It was never Ebay fraud.
October 6, 20214 yr Author Soon as I sign in the banner shows up at the bottom. If I log out it goes away, weird... 😶 FS2020 Alienware Aurora R11 10th Gen Intel Core i7 10700F - Windows 11 Home 32GB Ram NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super OC 16GB - Pimax Crystal Light VR
October 7, 20214 yr I have a question. If devices like Alexa are just sitting on your coffee table are they listening to everything you say or do you have to say Alexa first? What about Siri on your iPhone? And while I'm asking questions we haven't heard AVSIM weight in on the banner ads for a while. Do you suppose they are just waiting until we get used to it and the thread goes away? Noel Edited October 7, 20214 yr by birdguy The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
October 7, 20214 yr 38 minutes ago, birdguy said: If devices like Alexa are just sitting on your coffee table are they listening to everything you say or do you have to say Alexa first? They supposedly are only listening in when you say the right phrase first (Hey Siri, Ok Google etc.), but what you do say can be recorded. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-sends-alexa-shower-recordings-to-wrong-person-2018-12?op=1
October 7, 20214 yr Just like Tim_Capps I use the free Adblocker Ultimate and am spared by ads on pretty much all of the sites I visit. I also have my browser (Firefox) set to delete cookies as soon as I leave a site if I have no option to disable them at the beginning - with several exceptions for pages (like Avsim) that I regularly visit. Just the other day I wanted to do a reverse telephone number search on a German website - and had to manually disable 203 (in words: two hundred and three!) cookies, as they did not offer the "accept all" / "reject all" options... Cheers Mallard
October 7, 20214 yr Author Has anyone figured this out yet on the Avsim side? It's getting worse meaning the same add is now playing at times in the middle of the screen and at the bottom showing the same thing. Vey annoying... FS2020 Alienware Aurora R11 10th Gen Intel Core i7 10700F - Windows 11 Home 32GB Ram NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super OC 16GB - Pimax Crystal Light VR
October 8, 20214 yr The last time I check here I had a banner at the top of the screen and the bottom of the screen. But by the time I scrolled down to the next post the top banner went away. Right now I have two banner ads on the bottom. One for flights to Europe and the other on air charters. It just switched and they are both Warbirds Art Decor ads. It's annoying and you can't get rid of it. And still now word from Avsim, Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
October 8, 20214 yr The cure is to use Firefox browser and add block plus, as several here have mentioned. I have never seen this banner ever on Avsim. I'm on here every day. I do not see a single add on Youtube either, not one for many months, I'm on YT every day. I used to see adds on YT all the time, because I was using the Chrome browser. If you use Google Chrome, you can install all the add blockers you want. They will not work anywhere near as well as the add blockers on Firefox. Especially on Youtube (Google owns Youtube, their browser is not going to block their own money makers). Actually Firefox has lots of privacy features built into it, not just add blockers. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/privacy/ 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
October 8, 20214 yr On 10/6/2021 at 11:09 PM, Dillon said: Soon as I sign in the banner shows up at the bottom. If I log out it goes away, weird... 😶 I see it if logged in or not. On my mobile the top banner fills the entire screen, nothing from Avsim visible at all, I have to scroll right down. When I do the dammed flashing bottom banner appears. I don't mind advertising if it funds Avsim. But for gods sake, the way it is now is dreadful.
October 8, 20214 yr Administrators Hey! Would you guys please put some clothes on while you sit at your computers! How disgusting! Hey, Noel....shave once in a while! 😀 Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
October 9, 20214 yr 14 hours ago, charliearon said: Noel....shave once in a while! You sound like my wife Charlie. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
October 9, 20214 yr On 10/4/2021 at 9:31 PM, Mike A said: This is what I use on my mobile devices: https://brave.com/ Thank you. Browsing Avsim from my iPhone got much better. // 5800X3D // RTX 3090 // 64GB RAM // HP REVERB G2 //
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