Help Information
AntiRebate is supported by dozens of stores and merchants, large and small, ranging from Dell Computers to Walmart, Hot Topic to Sears, Home Depot to Office Depot, and more. They offer products at considerable savings to our readers because we can drive a high volume of traffic and generate more sales for them. Visitors like you know that they can get these products at a much lower price when they come to AntiRebate.com. It works very similar to a print magazine: Stores and merchants are the advertisers. AntiRebate is the publisher. Visitors to the AntiRebate web site are the readers.
By using cookies, each merchant will know that you were referred by AntiRebate. Also, when a cookie is set, discounts and coupons may
be activated automatically to give you a lower price than if you went to that merchant's web site directly.
Cookies (also known as "tracking cookies") are plain text files used by advertisers that tell them you've been to AntiRebate.com and at what time/date. Cookies are not programs. Text files are words like what you are reading right now. Text files cannot cause any damage or problems to your computer. Just think of a text file like a Notepad document.
AntiRebate works with reputable and established companies, many of which are recognized by millions of people. We will never knowingly send you to a fly-by-night store or a shady website.
These are some common uses for cookies:
Sites like eBay, MSN, Paypal, Yahoo, Google remember your login name by the use of cookies. Passwords, credit card numbers, addresses and phone numbers are usually never saved in a cookie. Your web browser might save this information on its own if you have auto-complete or form filler functions enabled in your web browser.
Nearly all online shopping sites use cookies to keep the items you've selected in your shopping cart so that when you look at other items before checking out, the item in your shopping cart remains in the cart.
Some news sites have cookies to show you news articles that you haven't seen yet and keep the articles you've already read in a separate section.
Web email sites make use of cookies in order remember your preferences (e.g. how many email messages to show on one page, the width of your editor window, etc.)
AntiRebate uses cookies to remember the last date of your visit and to show you how many new offers were added since your last visit.
There are some Anti Spyware programs that will block cookies or block complete web sites that conduct the accounting for our advertisers. While we use Anti Spyware and Anti Virus programs on all of our computers, we think that a few Anti Spyware programs are much too aggressive in the way that they block everything under the sky.
Anti Spyware programs are supposed to eliminate problems with your computer and make your online time stress-free. However, if they block everything,
including some of our advertisers' web sites, they are creating more headaches for you.
The true purpose of Anti Spyware software is to remove spyware programs. Some browers extensions, add-ons, or standalone programs may redirect you to different web sites or pop up advertisements. These are spyware/malware programs and are not cookies.
If you click on an offer link and it comes up blank or your browser states it is unable to connect to a server, your Anti Spyware program might be blocking a cookie or the entire site and not allowing our advertiser's web site to come up. Please try the following steps to correct this.
Anti Spyware Settings
Configure your Anti Spyware software to the medium/middle setting. Cookies do not need to be blocked.
The middle setting for most Anti Spyware software should be sufficient. If you performed an "immunity" on your system, you will probably need to undo it. An "immunity" is similar to the most aggressive blocking.
Web Browser Settings
Check your web browser settings.
For Internet Explorer:
Click Tools > Internet Options
Click the Security tab
Select the Internet Zone and set it to the Medium-high setting
Click the Privacy tab
Choose the Medium Setting
For Firefox:
Click Tools > Options
Click the Privacy icon
Put a Checkmark on "Accept cookies from sites" and "Accept third-party cookies" and select Keep until: they expire
Clean Your Hosts File
Some programs may have added extra unnecessary entries to your hosts file which blocks or redirects certain web sites.
These should be removed.
Open "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer" and then navigate to the following folder:
For Windows 95/98/ME: C:\Windows\
For Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\
For Windows NT/2000: C:\WinNT\System32\drivers\etc\
Highlight or click the file hosts or lmhosts, press F2 and change the file name from hosts to hosts.bak or lmhosts to lmhosts.bak. Then restart the computer. If you get an error while accessing this file, see this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923947.
For Linux: /etc/hosts
For Mac OS: System Folder: Preferences: Hosts
If you start to have a problem with links on our site again, you may need to change the hosts file one more time.
You can delete the hosts.bak file if you no longer need it.
Tell Us
Have you seen a documented report of a cookie causing problems for a computer? If so, please let us know name of the article or report and where you saw it.
We don't believe there is such a thing as a "bad or malicious cookie."
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