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Old 09-28-2008, 08:51 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Why am i seeing french google ads?

Every site i go on that has google ads the banner imige ads are all coming up with french advertisements :S
I realy dont get why this is as i havnt been searching for anything french related and havnt said im from france anywhere
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Old 09-29-2008, 12:10 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Perhaps you IP is misidentified in some list as being french.
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Old 09-30-2008, 03:27 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Did you do any Googling of French-related topics? If so then they've cookied you and they're just feeding ads that they think you'll pay attention to.

As an example: A while ago a friend of mine was telling me about a park in her city and I started googling/yahooing her location to see the park she was talking about. For the next couple days all I got was news and add images of that darn city. -_-

If you're paranoid about being watched you could always get Mozilla with No Script and/or use search engines like Scroogle to hide your searches.
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Old 10-01-2008, 03:20 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Default Try Deleting Your Temporary Internet Files

Wipe all the temporary files your browser stores and try that!

Does the same happen if you hit Amazon.com say - does it try to offer you Amazon.fr?

If not then it's a cookie - wiping the temp files will resolve it.
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