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Old 01-05-19, 13:29
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I manage several Ancestry accounts.
Waiting for pages to load, I have noticed all the different cookies grabbing a slice of my action.
So, I have moved my settings to no targetted ads.

Will this speed things up?
Do I have to do it for every account for it to work?
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Old 01-05-19, 13:37
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I don't know the answer to that, but I deleted all my ancestry cookies yesterday and it fixed the problem of the new beta profiles not loading. I never realised I could change the settings to stop targetted ads, even though I have noticed "waiting for Pinterest" etc at the bottom of the screen and wondered why. Might try it!
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Old 02-05-19, 11:28
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Never noticed myself - observation skills nil lol.

Will have to have a look - noticed ancestry was really slow yesterday.
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Old 02-05-19, 11:51
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I didn't notice much difference after going through and turning them off.
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Old 03-05-19, 07:38
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If you are running Firefox as your web browser you can use an add-on called Ad Blocker. This helps to speed up all sites, although I have noticed a few sites are starting to have ads, so they are getting around the blockers.
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Old 10-05-19, 02:09
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So, I have moved my settings to no targetted ads.
How do we do this please?
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Old 12-05-19, 00:43
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I think: My account, site preferences and scrolling down to the bottom, where they have privacy settings. But I could be misremembering.
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Old 14-05-19, 22:38
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I can't find it anywhere. I'll look again another day, things are hiding from me recently.
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