Unfortunately there are organisations that attempt to inject so-called 'targetted' advertising as people browse the web. By doing this they are trying to make money out of other peoples work (website owners).

They try to pass this off as beneficial to the users, claiming that they will give you warnings about dangerous sites and you will only see advertisements that are relevant to you, but to do that they have to make quite a detailed examination of your web browsing habits - without telling you what information they are storing and who they might pass it on to.

They are effectively defacing a site owners pages and therefore in breach of their copyright. They are also putting you, the viewer at risk, as you can no longer be confident of the source of anything you see when browsing a site. If your Internet service provider (ISP) allows a third party to inject such information, there is no way for you to tell if anyone else is doing so.

Placing targetted advertising on top of a commercial website is a serious affront. It means that the website owners are now effectively advertising their competitors in a way that many viewers are likely to mistake as an endorsement for these products and services. What is more, the website owners don't even get to see which advertisments are defacing their site.

If you see advertising while viewing our site we recommend that you complain to your ISP.