What does the "Ad List" button do?
Click on the "Ad List" button on the Guidescope Menu to open the Ad List in a new
window. Use the Ad List to select graphics for blocking or unblocking.
What is the Ad List?
The Ad List is a form that shows the graphics that your computer has
downloaded over the last 15 minutes and the pages that they came
from. The most-recently downloaded pages are shown first. After 15 minutes,
graphics are cleared from the Ad List and no longer appear. Use the
Ad List to identify ads and other graphics for blocking or unblocking
on your computer.
The Ad List shows graphical ads. Some ads are composed of text only or are forms
formatted to look like ads. Such non-graphical ads don't show up in the Ad List. Non-graphical
ads don't slow your surfing or threaten your privacy like graphical ads, and are not blocked.
Graphics from Internet secure sites that use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are also not shown
in the Ad List.
What are the numbers at the top of the Ad List?
The top of the Ad List displays statistics:
- Pages loaded shows how many Web pages have been downloaded.
- Graphics loaded shows how many separate pieces of graphics have been downloaded.
- Graphics blocked shows how many separate pieces of graphics have been blocked and
not downloaded.
How do I use the Ad List?
Open the Ad List in a new window by clicking on "Ad List" on the Guidescope Menu.
How the Ad List works depends on whether ad blocking is on or off. (The
previous section describes how to turn ad blocking on and off.)
- If ad blocking is on, use the Ad list to select ads for blocking.
Check the boxes next to your selections and then press the "BLOCK" button.
The graphics you select are immediately
blocked on your computer and submitted for inclusion in our database.
If you return to a page after blocking graphics using the Ad List, your browser's
cache might cause the blocked graphics to still appear on the page.
Read what to do about it
here.
- If ad blocking is off, use the Ad list to select graphics for unblocking.
Check the boxes next to your selections and then press the "UNBLOCK" button.
The graphics you select are unblocked on your computer and
submitted for removal from our database.
If you can't see a previously blocked graphic or find it in the Ad List, your
browser's cache might be preventing it from being downloaded. Read what to do about it
here.
How do "Web bugs" appear in the Ad List?
Web bugs are tiny, invisible graphics that are used to record where you
surf. Even pages without ads can contain Web bugs.
Web bugs are visible in the Ad List because all graphics in the Ad List
are shown with a black outline. Most Web bugs are only a single pixel
in size, so they appear in the Ad List as tiny (3 pixel wide) squares.
You can see an example of a typical Web bug at the bottom of the Ad List
shown above. (Click on it to see a larger version.) Any time you see an
"empty" outline in the Ad List for a URL that is loaded from a different server
than the rest of the page that it is on, you are probably seeing an
otherwise invisible Web bug! We recommend turning
Cookie Blocking
on to protect
from tracking by Web bugs.
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