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Wondered why so many have chosen to leave WW . It’s got to be the ads. They’re driving he crackers.

It's not only WiganWorld, the internet is full of them. I have an 'ad-blocker', but it stops me from getting onto some sites. It comes on the screen, "delete your ad-blocker or pay to continue".
And then there's the 'Cookies'. Everywhere has them, "accept cookies", "refuse cookies", sometimes refusing cookies stops entry. Accepting them gets you loads more adverts!

I don't have a problem with Google I use an ad blocker but when I use ME my screen is readable by about 50% less due to ads. Like Tonkers says if you have to use cookies then you get plagued with ads about what you have been looking at A bad example of this was last week I looked up Steiff bears and for days afterwards both sides of my screen and part way down what I was trying to read was ads for Steiff bears

What I have started getting in my inbox is american spam messages inspite of the security and ad blocker.

Anyone know the reason?

Posted by: Owd Codger (3709)
What I have started getting in my inbox is american spam messages inspite of the security and ad blocked

Block the sender

The tablet I'm using is an Amazon Fire, at the top of the screen a message appears, VIEW SIMPLIFIED PAGE, if I press on it all the ads disappear.
It gets used quite a lot!

Owd Codger:

It sounds like your email address has been hacked and sold on all over the internet. The best thing to do is to change your password, and the spam should stop, hopefully, but perhaps not entirely.

First Mate suggested sending them to Blocked Senders, and I recently had the same problem as you, so that's what I did, but my friend who has qualifications in computer technology, told me not to block, but to just delete. By using blocking, it shows that the email address is still active as it sends back a message to that effect. It is a darned nuisance but, as long as you don't click onto any of them, your computer will be safer. If you do click onto them, they could send viruses to infect your machine. Just ignore and delete if you don't recognise the sender.

Any spam I get goes straight to junk/spam, where they are deleted automatically every 10 days or so. They very rarely get to my inbox. When they do I block them and then if they send any more they are sent to spam.

Right. I've never got any spam in my inbox (well maybe just one, or two at most), and I delete them immediately.

I've had them saying my account with Amazon, eBay, etc, are about to transpire, but I've never had accounts with them. I used to get spam at work from America summonsing me to the the Supreme Court in New York for driving offences, but I just bin them.

They're crafty beggars who try to intimidate old folk, or others with no knowledge of how computers work, except how to switch them on, but they can't be stopped.