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stix_kua
07-06-2003, 02:43 AM
On the SysOpt pages, there are flash advertisements, if you right click them and select Settings, ther should be four tabs each one with different settings. I just found out that I have been lsitened to and watched for the last year!

All of us must disable the watching and listening features...of these ads

For example, the storagetek ad...
crusious31
07-06-2003, 03:30 AM
When i right click on the flash advertisements there is no option for settings.. ?
JCB
07-06-2003, 09:09 AM
What ads?

Try Proxomitron.:p
Jonathan Daleo
07-06-2003, 10:19 AM
why all this paranoia :confused:

not as if what we say here is secret or personal
bushmaster
07-06-2003, 10:32 AM
The entire internet has eyes and ears. Tell us something we don't know.
Sysopt is a for profit website via advertisements, as well as a tech forum that help's others (through it's members) with their computer problems gratis.
If you are savy enough to realize that there are trackers through the ads here than you should be savy enough to know how to avoid them as well.
mireland
07-06-2003, 11:20 AM
Yes we are being watched..You probably can't take a leak without someone secretly watching you!
Spardan
07-06-2003, 11:50 AM
Is that Chuck Berry I see, watching me pee?

what's all this about clicking on ads...?

I thought no one did that anymore, xept by accident, not since the mid 90s anyway...!

Fun to change the quality and zoom, though... abstract ads are much better...

:D
JCB
07-06-2003, 12:00 PM
LOL Chuck Berry's Pee Cam. Good one.:D
Spardan
07-06-2003, 12:03 PM
Could make an interesting flash game...a la Michael's Baby Catch....hmm:D
Swordfish
07-06-2003, 12:31 PM
good for me since all the flash ad's are disabled by spywareblaster...:p

no more flash....:eek:
stix_kua
07-06-2003, 11:51 PM
I was shocked to find that I was actually being heard on the other side... I never expected this...

By the way I found this out when using Windows XP so 2000 or earlier might not have it.
cbh
07-07-2003, 12:58 AM
I'm using Windows XP Pro now. I can't find any settings when I right-click on the ad.
stix_kua
07-07-2003, 01:03 AM
Do you Macromedia flash...the latest version?
cbh
07-07-2003, 01:13 AM
I don't know. I installed it when I was surfing Terminator 3 website. Does it matter?

:(
stix_kua
07-07-2003, 09:37 AM
Originally posted by cbh
I don't know. I installed it when I was surfing Terminator 3 website. Does it matter?

:(

I only tested this on one ad, the Storagetek one...it's usuall the ads that are next to the first post of the thread.
rangeral
07-07-2003, 09:56 AM
By default it denies access til you tell it to, its working in conjunction with doubleclick which already has access with normal cookies so theres nothing new about that or anymore spying than is normal.
cdroman
07-07-2003, 10:57 AM
Ditto bushmasters response.
stix_kua
07-07-2003, 11:54 AM
Originally posted by rangeral
By default it denies access til you tell it to, its working in conjunction with doubleclick which already has access with normal cookies so theres nothing new about that or anymore spying than is normal.

Mine was enabled by default... i am sure of that.