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This website uses non-personalized ads by Google to generate revenue to keep the site going. Hopefully, that's OK for everyone.
What are non-personalized ads?
Non-personalized ads are ads that are not based on a user's past behaviour.
If we used personalized ads then a cookie would be dropped on your computer.
If you went to a different site, this cookie could then be used to show
you similar ads for the things you're interested in. By using non-personalized,
we're not tracking you across the internet like some creepy stalker.
This is what Google says about non-personalized ads:
"Non-personalized ads are targeted using contextual information rather than the past behavior of a user. Although these ads don't use cookies for ads personalization, they do use cookies to allow for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse."
Links
Google has some info here that describes how they use any data collected
by their products
Goolge's Data Collection Policies
Their privacy policies are here:
Blocking Cookies
You can block cookies from your browser's settings page. However, blocking
every cookie is going to mean some sites won't work properly, or at
all. For example, if you block cookies from a shopping website then
the website won't know what you added to your basket.
To learn how to block cookies from specific browsers, there's a good page: