Welcome to the new forum

[DPG]

Yes, I get the white space thing sometimes.

 

[brianmoooore]

What's happened to the weekend digest, did not receive one this weekend?

 

[rsgaz]

I don't get the white spaces, but I am getting this overlapping...



See how DPG's name badge thingy has gone over the top of the header bar. Sometimes get it with text also, a persons whole post/text overlaps the header and changes colour.

Win 10, Firefox-64, latest version.

 

[Bobster]

What are these, "select for moderation" check box's that appear next to seemingly random threads?

 

[Dan]

I'll take a look at that.

Note that Google has now approved our new domain name and ads have gone crazy so I'll get those mostly removed for all heavy forum users. I just need to run some tests on them first for a day or so.

So hang in there lads.

 

[freddo]

ads have gone crazy

Lol noticed that, annoying repetitive ads as well, I'm really not interested in bingo. The animated ads are the most annoying!

 

[SparkyChick]

W

Who knows? It might make a come back once more important issues have been ironed out.

I hope it does

 

[Dan]

Lol noticed that, annoying repetitive ads as well, I'm really not interested in bingo. The animated ads are the most annoying!

Google advertisements are user orientated. They're specific to each individual user. Using your browsing history, age, location and various other things (their own magical algorithms) they follow you around the web.

To view and edit what Google has on your records you will need to login to a Google account and click here: http://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads

The Mrs has a new mini cooper s, so it's clocked out devices looking for race chips and remapping and we are getting hammered with those types of ads. Weird how it knows we have stopped looking for a car now and assumes we have one. Because we paid cash lol

 

[Octopus]

Google advertisements are user orientated. They're specific to each individual user. Using your browsing history, age, location and various other things (their own magical algorithms) they follow you around the web.

To view and edit what Google has on your records you will need to login to a Google account and click here: http://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads

Is it possible to set the settings so they don’t save anything?

 

[Dan]

Is it possible to set the settings so they don’t save anything?

You can erase your data (on that page) and use a VPS on every device to hide your IP address. I can highly recommend Norde VPN (type it in Google). And you can run searches online using a search engine called DuckDuckGo.

But the moment you login Facebook via Google Chrome, they know it's you again and your browsing is tracked again as if it's you. Your device is apple IOS or Android which Google own.

It's hard to get off the grid.

Search 'getting off the Google grid) and you will find loads of journalists trying for a week or month to not send data to Google and you wouldn't believe how hard it is.

I have opted to earn less revenue and send anonymous IP data to Google. So those of you who are seeing ads specific to you have searched Google or eBay or Amazon or Facebook for whatever you're seeing on our forums. If you read a thousand threads on our forum about sausage, you will get no sausages ads. I've turned it off. I've also turned off logging in via Google Facebook or Twitter.

I don't like this tracking lark. Not just for me, for my members too. It's dodgy. And the biggest current business type so it's going to be corrupt at the top I would guess.

Data mining and data collecting and selling is massive. Whole countries are doing it not just the firm's involved. China, the five eyes (inc UK). They know a lot more than they let on now because of social media and browser bugs.

 

[Octopus]

You can erase your data (on that page) and use a VPS on every device to hide your IP address. I can highly recommend Norde VPN (type it in Google). And you can run searches online using a search engine called DuckDuckGo.

But the moment you login Facebook via Google Chrome, they know it's you again and your browsing is tracked again as if it's you. Your device is apple IOS or Android which Google own.

It's hard to get off the grid.

Search 'getting off the Google grid) and you will find loads of journalists trying for a week or month to not send data to Google and you wouldn't believe how hard it is.

I have opted to earn less revenue and send anonymous IP data to Google. So those of you who are seeing ads specific to you have searched Google or eBay or Amazon or Facebook for whatever you're seeing on our forums. If you read a thousand threads on our forum about sausage, you will get no sausages ads. I've turned it off. I've also turned off logging in via Google Facebook or Twitter.

I don't like this tracking lark. Not just for me, for my members too. It's dodgy. And the biggest current business type so it's going to be corrupt at the top I would guess.

Data mining and data collecting and selling is massive. Whole countries are doing it not just the firm's involved. China, the five eyes (inc UK). They know a lot more than they let on now because of social media and browser bugs.

My son installed nord vpn on his gaming pc and now he’s locked out our home network, he thinks he has disabled it but he can’t print to the family printer and if I try to ping him, it bounces back...

Can’t we use GDPR against these internet giants to stop them keeping track of us?

 

[Octopus]

Ps ... @ dan

I’m still getting issues logging on .... and off

 

[Dan]

Messing with VPN's are tricky.

GDPR isn't worth the hard drives the files are saved on. (Worth the paper it's printed on?).

This is Google we are talking about lol

Ps. Still haven't had time to checkout that.

 

[littlespark]

I’ve got nord vpn on my laptop. For purely legal reasons I should add.
It makes your computer think it’s in another country, so of course it’s going to have trouble recognising your home network.
It’s easy enough to turn on and off. Just turn it off when you want to print.

 

[Dan]

From what I gather he's uninstalled it whilst it was on and that's not good. He needs to install it again, turn it off, and only then uninstall it.

I have it on and connect to my printer fine it doesn't work like that.

 

[static zap]

(Now you mention it ,have not seen the LED lighting guy with a strange expression,at top of page !)
... Does it think I'm on a phone ,
Firefox(ver 67.0.1(64bit))
Ele....forums.net is asking for "Push Notifications" ... Or is that why my "Ads" are broken ?

 

[littlespark]

Ah. I just guessed it worked like that. As I say, I only use it for purely legal purposes....

 

[Dan]

(Now you mention it ,have not seen the LED lighting guy with a strange expression,at top of page !)
... Does it think I'm on a phone ,
Firefox(ver 67.0.1) is asking for "Push Notifications" ... Or it that why my "Ads" are broken ?

Push notifications are forum-related. Makes it work like an app. Ads-wise I couldn't tell you. I see no ads the same as you. They're all custom for me and my devices.

 

[static zap]

As I understand it ,push notifications notify me when I'm not logged in , Too face-ache ish behaviour - for me !
(good reasons to have a FaceBook container)

 

[freddo]

To view and edit what Google has on your records you will need to login to a Google account and click here: http://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads

I have ad personalization turned off so the ads are random and not linked to any website I may have visited or any conversation I may have had with a colleague. No doubt the data is still being collected.

 

[Dan]

I have ad personalization turned off so the ads are random and not linked to any website I may have visited or any conversation I may have had with a colleague. No doubt the data is still being collected.

It absolutely is. I guarantee it. And being sold onto whoever wants to buy it. And often not too anonomised.

I've watched loads of documentaries on it. And The Guardian journalists have covered it a few times. They're the ones who investigated the Cambridge analytical data and got Facebook in front of MPs.

It's discussing what they do. But then our government does it too. And uses zero day bugs to track everybody and store data on them and profile them.

You would need a laptop pre-1996 to not have a chipset with a backdoor in it for various governments to access.

 

[littlespark]

I thought the perpetual energy thread was the one for conspiracy theorists....
come on.... govt spying on us through our computer?.....

 

[EalingBadger]

I thought the perpetual energy thread was the one for conspiracy theorists....
come on.... govt spying on us through our computer?.....

You've obviously not been following the news lately then...

 

[Dan]

Have a quick search of the guardian.

UK Spy Agency Joins NSA in Sharing Zero-Day Disclosure Process

The UK government has shared details on its vulnerability equities process (VEP), which is used to decide whether a government agency should disclose a discovered vulnerability or keep it secret for its own purposes.

www.securityweek.com

Landmark GCHQ Publication Reveals Vulnerability Disclosure Process

In a landmark move, GCHQ has published the "Equities Process" it uses when deciding whether to retain or disclose a technology vulnerability.

tech.newstatesman.com

US government responds to latest hack: give us more power over data collection

‘Zero day’ attack on high-level security clearance agency reignites push by Congressional leaders to hand federal government greater cybersecurity powers

www.theguardian.com

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The UK government didn't share their knowledge of a zero-day exploit and it caused the whole of a US town to get attacked, now they're suing the UK for not sharing what they knew about the exploit.

Six days after a ransomware cyberattack, Atlanta officials are filling out forms by hand | CNN

City of Atlanta officials are telling employees to turn their computers and printers back on, but residents still can't access some city services online.

edition.cnn.com

It's real stuff I'm afraid.

 

[telectrix]

@ dan. when are all these ads going to go. generally on every post now, from bitcoin scams to arab dating sites.

 

[Andy78]

Hi @Dan
Any thoughts on my post #99 ? I know it's not to do with the recent changes but you know, while you're on with stuff

 

[Spoon]

to arab dating sites

Are they any good??

 

[freddo]

Have a quick search of the guardian.

Did you just put an ad in your post?!

Edit I've just looked around the forum a bit, what is this ad land???!!

 

[Dan]

Did you just put an ad in your post?!

Edit I've just looked around the forum a bit, what is this ad land???!!

As I said earlier in the thread. Google has now approved our new domain name. And because it's new the ad slots are all new. So I need to start off heavy and tail off the ones not getting clicked on. Eventually ending up with what we basically had before.

I can't just turn them off for regulars right now though because we would make no money. To them we are a brand new site. We don't have our previous 14 years worth of stats for advertisers to go off.

 

[DPG]

Give him a break folks.

 

[Dan]

I'm used to it lol

To be fair they are plentyful but it won't stay this way. It gets better from here on.

There will also be a subscription which removes all ads and even sponsors ads too. But I haven't gotten round to that yet.

 

[freddo]

So I need to start off heavy and tail off the ones not getting clicked on.

Interesting, but surely nobody actually clicks on any of the ads, except by accident? It would be interesting to see the results!

 

[Dan]

Interesting, but surely nobody actually clicks on any of the ads, except by accident? It would be interesting to see the results!

About 1.5% of the total page impressions get clicked on.

If I show ads to people who don't click on them I lose money. So I don't intend on showing them to anybody who wouldn't click on them.

If it is annoying you while I do this, I've made a subscription option that will remove the lot. At least do it for a month or so as that'll be how long I need to mess with them I rate.

 

[Baddegg]

How do I subscribe @Dan?...

 

[Dan]

How do I subscribe @Dan?...

Click the link in the message at the top of the forum. It'll kick in max 24hrs after subscribing. Eventually it'll be instant.

Can click here if you can't see the message.

https://www.electriciansforums.net/account/upgrades

 

[Baddegg]

Click the link in the message at the top of the forum. It'll kick in max 24hrs after subscribing. Eventually it'll be instant.

Tax deductible surely.....

 

[Dan]

Tax deductible surely.....

It is a cost to your business mate. We aim to save you money.

 

[Baddegg]

No ads AND the tax mans paying ha ha

 

[Dan]

No brainner eh

 

[SparkyAndGeorge]

Is there a reason why I keep seeing adverts for MR ELECTRIC Cannock?

 

[Baddegg]

Is there a reason why I keep seeing adverts for MR ELECTRIC Cannock?

Yep.......my mate keeps getting adverts for penis enlargement.....dunno how that’s happening...

 

[Silly Sausage]

dan, why have i had to disable adblock.?

On my Android running phone, if I run EF from Adblocker ....... NO ADS!

 

[custie86]

Brexity? I thought most members on here were Pro-Brexit being working class and all.

 

[Oldnewbie]

Thanks for your patience in advance. I'll be making lots of small changes and adding our old custom features and code over the next week or so. So please reserve your suggestions until then.

You can post new threads, reply to old ones, message each other, etc etc and it should all work fine.

Advertisements will come and go, and at some point seem pretty heavy. But they'll die down again once I've found the happy medium between annoying you all with ads, and actually making enough money to stay online.

Sponsors ads will take priority - I'll sort them before the night is out.

You'll notice we're on a .net now - that's staying as our new home. The .co.uk felt a bit brexit-y and I thought what the hell, we're globally awesome so let's try tackle the yanks.

Please feel free to chat about the changes amongst yourselves in this thread. I wont be checking it for suggestions though. I'll ask in a few weeks when I've completed everything and get a bit of feedback then and make a few changes should there need to be any.

All the best.

How do I go about receiving the weekly email of top topics please?

 

[Spoon]

How do I go about receiving the weekly email of top topics please?

Have you tried going into your profile ans seeing if it's under 'Preferences'?

 

[telectrix]

should rename this thread as "welcome to the world of unwanted adverts"

 

[Dan]

As I've said a few times now, and it's getting boring repeating myself, I'm still messing around with the ads and will be for another week or so.

So hang in there, or just sod off for a week and give me some peace. lol

 

[Dan]

Those that use it, you can enable ad-blocking again now if you wish.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Ad free here, 4763 blocked so far!

 

[Dan]

PMSL - We haven't even displayed that many to you since we've switched. That's probably blocking things that make the forum look right.