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TechStuff Classic: The Problem with Ads Part One

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How to Use a Browser to Access a Website

Your browser is sending out a request over the Internet and it's essentially saying hey the jerk on the other end of this keyboard wants to see you know I don't know what's a good website. The information comes to you and your browser puts it together and displays it for you based upon the rules set up by the webmaster right so whoever put it together there are there's language tags that explain how it's supposed to look when it's displayed on your browser. Now with ads the content for the ads comes from a different place than the content forthe web page itself because they're actually coming from different servers. And that depends on the arrangement between the advertiser and the content creator.

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