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jinglbellsfrocks Thu 28-Apr-16 17:59:23

I've been getting an advert on Gransnet for a couple of weeks now, about 'mycotoxin management'. When I click on it it says, "Animal feeds are your business and it's ours too". confused No it isn't! I haven't even got a goldfish!

I'm so fed up with it. It's not even a pretty ad. It's orange and black. Someone make it go away. Pleeease.

Elegran Tue 10-May-16 17:05:27

At last I have got rid of the mycotoxin ads! I followed the arrow at the top right of the ad, which took me to a Google Adchoices page. There I could select some companies to opt out of. That mycotoxin ad was placed by the advertising firm Double-click. When I opted out of Double-click I stopped getting ads placed by them.

In place of the mycotoxins was now an ad for euromillions, placed by Infectious Media (I don't think I want to catch whatever they are infected with) .

I followed the "Adchoices" link at the right-hand end of that, which took me to info.evidon.co.uk/more_info/17649 From there I could select "opt out of more companies" - that produced a list of several hundred online advertising companies, about half of which had a box where I could opt out of them there and then, and the other half had a link to their website, where I could opt out separately.

I did the box ones, so that is half of them excluded.

It said on the evidon opt-out page - "You can opt out of any or all of the companies listed below. If you opt out, you will still see ads online, and in some cases data may be collected about your browsing activity, but companies will not use this information to select the ads you see online. For detailed information on how each company uses your data, including their opt-out policies, click on the company name below. "

This Google support page tells you more about how to opt out and what that can and can't achieve. - support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en-GB