Site causing blanking of browser

[andy43]

RacingPete said:

andy43 said:

Just to report my laptop now works on PH again. Well done on the wedding
But the tail wagging the dog is indeed a problem - who the hell are taboola, scorecardresearch and all the other weird websites that PH 'waits' for?

Abine's do not track me works great at preventing most of it though

Taboola - they do the "more like this stuff" at the bottom of some pages, getting pretty common across the internet on news sites
Scorecardresearch - used for measuring site usage (or display advertising usage), so companies can get stats on who views what, and the links between different sites and demographics.

Most of them are either trying to serve something to the page (outside of our code world), or trying to monitor how well that thing served to the page.... it is all 1984 really!

Taboola want a kick up the arse.
Do I want a pink Sales-line Audi? No. How about finding out about a photoshopped bridge? Nope. Or a Harris review of the Ark? Pointless.
But if they pay PH to put the same old links down there at the bottom of the page all day every day, fine by me as long as it doesn't stop me using the site.
Big brother indeed.