My firefox browser often is redirected. I go to google type in a company name, I click on the site, but instead of the company I get an advertisement. How can I stop this?

For example, I type in South Caronlina Contractors license in google. I see the SCCL website. It is the official website. I click on it and instead of getting the state site, I get redirected to an advertisement. 10 minutes later I go through the same process and get the site I want. It happens with a number of sites not just one I mentioned.

www.google-anaylitics.com is a company that tracks people on the net for statistical data. It puts a tracking cookie on your system so it can follow you around and see where you go, etc.
I have an add-on called "ghostery" that detects these tracking cookies and blocks them. You would not believe how many there are on the internet. Even this page sets a "Web Trends" cookie. According to Ghostery "Web Trends" has been found on over 10,000 sites.
So, try installing it and see if it solves the problem. You may also want to get the add-on "LSO". It takes care of macromedia's tracking cookies
You'll find both of them in the FF add-ons.
davewdan

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