Do you use ad blocking software?
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Topic: Do you use ad blocking software?
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Subject: Do you use ad blocking software?
Date Posted: August 08 2006 at 15:53
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To those who are tempted to vote option #2 ... perhaps you'd rather want to try it and vote when you made up your mind. I installed the adblock plugin about a month ago ... I don't ever want to use a browser without such a feature. BTW: One wonders why the owners of the archives insist on placing these ads here ... no user ever intentionally clicks them, the only effect they might have is that PCs of careless users are infected with mal/adware. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to: 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 08 2006 at 15:54
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I know of having pop-ups blocking...or...something like that...
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 08 2006 at 15:56
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BTW: If you want to try it but don't know how ... just download Mozilla Firefox and adblock. With adblock installed all you need to do is open a page which contains ads ... if the page contains ads you right-click them and you will be offered an option to block them. Advanced users can even use wildcards and ban entire domains, which is what I would recommend. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to:
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 08 2006 at 15:57
Yes, most browsers offer that feature nowadays. but adblock goes one step further and removes the ads from the pages.  ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to:
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Ricochet wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 08 2006 at 16:51
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Well, I've just installed adblock into my Firefox and it seems to work okay. I was a bit wary about a comment from someone who had to uninstall it when it crashed his ebay pages, but it seems okay. It won't block those annoying talking smileys though (as far as I can see). |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 08 2006 at 18:11
| I use Norton and it blocks them all everytime without fail. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 08 2006 at 18:19
Just right-click them and there should be a menu option to block the image. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to:
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Posted By: krusty
Date Posted: August 08 2006 at 18:32
You could also install the Filterset.G extension for Adblock which is a huge database of AdSites for Adblock. It updates every so often making sure your pages are completely ad free  More info here http://www.pierceive.com/ - http://www.pierceive.com/ ------------- http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/contentChapterView.asp?chapter=309" rel="nofollow - Humanism |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 08 2006 at 18:33
| I get the block option on some ads but not on others. It seems to be the Flash ones that I can't block. |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: August 08 2006 at 21:33
That's what I do. It really makes a big difference  ------------- 
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 08 2006 at 22:03
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I tried the wildcards and ended up losing non-ads in a lot of cases. I think I'll try Krusty's link.
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 09 2006 at 03:17
Of course when applying wildcards you should be a little bit careful ... with an address like http://googlesyndication.com/ads/bad_image.jpg you should ban http://googlesyndication.com/ads/*, not http://googlesyndication.com/*. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to:
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 09 2006 at 03:20
Try the "list all blockable elements" feature. Usually flash ads are invoked by scripts, which are blockable elements. You just can't right-click them in the browser, because the Flash plugin implements its own context menu. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to:
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: August 09 2006 at 05:23
| I believe Opera has a built-in ad blocker, but it's not all that great, and difficult to customise. Still, I don't see many in my travels. |
Posted By: KazimirMajorinc
Date Posted: August 21 2006 at 00:44
| Beside other purposes, I regularly block pictures many of guys here keep in their signatures. |
Posted By: Sacred 22
Date Posted: August 21 2006 at 00:55
| yup |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 21 2006 at 23:20
Alan, I think Firefox has a separate Flashblock extension. Myself, I only use adblock with filterset.G - guess I don't get bothered by too much flash. |