Posted on 02/24/2013 10:30:20 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
I am fed up with, and don't even go to, a number of websites that make it impossible to close their pop-ups--I mean there isn't even a button to do so--or else, when you close the pop-up, an entirely new, screen-filling WINDOW opens. Townhall, CanadaFreePress, NRO, NewsMax, and many others are guilty of this kind of aggression. I'm sick of it. I never even look at what they are hawking, and now, I won't click any links on FR to these sites until I hear that they've cleaned up their act.
I KNOW EXACTLY what you mean.
I got pop up blocker and it is just about as bad as the pop up sites/adds.
Every time one attempts to popup - my popup blocker asks me if I want to block their add.
My question is - why won’t a pop up blocker do exactly what it is supposed to do and leave me out of the discussion?
I don’t want the adds and I don’t feel the need to justify my decision to reject their adds every time.
I have permanently deleted all email coming from NEWSMAX to my SPAM bucket.
As soon as I see an article and NEWSMAX pops up, I do a search on the same subject and look for another source.
I only use it when FF won’t work, such as trying to look on the MS site for stuff.
Thanks. I installed it, too.
Thanks. Just installed it.
Ghostery is a Firefox add-on that blocks all hidden tracking software on websites you visit.
I think that if I disable Java, I can’t use KeepVid.
I was just at examiner.com in Google Chrome and there was nothing blocking the text. As long as the article is legible,
pop-up and banner ads are like junk mail that I didn’t ask for and don’t want (especially customized) but can be just as easily ignored.
I was on an optometrists site the other day and I clicked on a VSP add. Did some research on them, decided I didn’t want to join. Then every site I went to there was a VSP banner add.
Did some more research and found out about super cookies, now VSP adds are gone.
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Some sites are so ad rich that they aren’t worth visiting for their content. |
World Net Daily is a perfect example.
I use ghostery.
I like it very much.
learned about it on FR of course !!!
You might want to consider adding “Ghostery” to your add ons as well. It blocks trackers.
Late again, old chap.
thank you
so once I download it ow does it block trackers?
or will i understand it after i download it?
Might as well be speaking Swahili. What is popup?
If you ever find yourself in a situation where an adblock variation or another addon isn’t feasible — install this as a startup script in your DDWRT router:
Code:
_rogue=127.0.0.1
echo -e “n=1\nwhile ! wget -q -O /tmp/hsts http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt ; do\n\t[ \$n -gt 5 ] && break\n\tlet n+=1\n\tsleep 60\ndone\ngrep \”^127.0.0.1\” /tmp/hsts | grep \”^127.0.0.1\” | grep -v localhost | awk ‘{print \”$_rogue\\\t\”\$2}’ | tr -d ‘\\\015’ >/tmp/dlhosts\nrm /tmp/hsts\nkillall -HUP dnsmasq” >/tmp/wh
sh /tmp/wh &
Additional DNSMasq Options script:
Code:
addn-hosts=/tmp/dlhosts
Download and installed ghost registry and now I get this purple box in the right top corner saying google analytics?
I agree that they’re annoying, but if we want a successful and profitable conservative press then the price will be advertising. For Pete’s sake, Limbaugh is all ads, but that’s what keeps him on the air.
You should know right away. There will be a little "ghost" icon when you open your browser and the trackers, if there are any on the site, will show up for a short time in a box and then the box goes away.
A number next to the ghost icon tells you how many trackers there are if you miss the box.
I agree. I don’t even go to these sites anymore.
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