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Fed Up with Aggressive Pop-Ups at Townhall, CanadaFreePress, etc.
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| Arthur McGowan
Posted on 02/24/2013 10:30:20 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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posted on
02/24/2013 10:31:56 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: Arthur McGowan
If you’re not using Mozilla, it’s time to get on the gravy train.
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posted on
02/24/2013 10:38:37 AM PST
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Adblock Plus not available for IE?
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posted on
02/24/2013 10:39:17 AM PST
by
publius911
(Look for the Unin label, then buy something else.)
To: publius911
Microsoft doesn't want you blocking ads.
Or evading their surveillance.
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posted on
02/24/2013 10:40:26 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: publius911
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posted on
02/24/2013 10:41:50 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
thank you
I am not savvy at all
it says it is free
is that true?
how can they do that
and then is says something about firefox
what is that/
thanks for helping me understand
ginger
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posted on
02/24/2013 10:43:58 AM PST
by
RWGinger
To: RWGinger
I have AdBlock and it works most of the time.
When a TownHall popup appears, I hit the F-5 key, which simply refreshes the page and the popup doesnt reappear...
F-5 works most of the time...
To: RWGinger
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posted on
02/24/2013 10:48:49 AM PST
by
Castigar
To: RWGinger
IE is an Internet browzer written and owned by Microsoft. Firefox is an Internet browser written by the Mozilla Foundation and released as
open source code. Anybody can download, modify and compile the code. It is free. There is lots of free open source software out there. The quality, security and reliability is every bit as good as proprietary software.
You can download Firefox here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/.
After you download and install it, start it up and got to the "Tools-Addons" menu and search for and install Adblock Plus.
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posted on
02/24/2013 10:50:15 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; Arthur McGowan
Thanks EPU for posting that link! I had no idea there was such a product. NRO is a site I visit often and it throws all kinds of ads up.
I just installed the Adblock Plus for Chrome and it has cleaned up NRO quite nicely!
To: Arthur McGowan
Whatever you do, avoid Examiner blogs, they are the worst. A half dozen pop-ups or float overs along with banners on every available inch of real-estate. I’ve started getting alerts of a lot of tracking cookies too.
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posted on
02/24/2013 11:00:23 AM PST
by
mnehring
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Thanks
to Everyone
This all helped me understand
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posted on
02/24/2013 11:02:31 AM PST
by
RWGinger
To: Arthur McGowan
FWIW, I use AdMuncher. It blocks most banner ads and popups, and if there’s a particular site it doesn’t block for some reason, you can usually add that on.
It’s not free, but it’s great. I’ve had it since it went into business ten years ago, one of the few from back then that I’ve kept.
Very small program, and it actually speeds up access to most sites since you don’t download all those visual ads. I visit lots of sites and hardly ever see an ad anywhere.
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posted on
02/24/2013 11:08:11 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Arthur McGowan
Some sites are so ad rich that they aren’t worth visiting for their content.
To: Arthur McGowan
Get Mozilla, Get the add on Ghostery to stop them from Data-Mining you and putting junk on you box.
https://www.ghostery.com/
Get other like minded add-ons, to stop re-directs etc. SO many good ones....
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posted on
02/24/2013 11:12:59 AM PST
by
taildragger
(( Tighten the 5 point harness and brace for Impact Freepers, ya know it's coming..... ))
To: RWGinger
Don’t forget Ghostery
www.ghostery.com
Blocks trackers too.
Adblock and ghostery are the minimum for browsing.
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posted on
02/24/2013 11:14:21 AM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Obama has turned America into an aristocracy of the unaccomplished.)
To: Arthur McGowan
See if your browser allows you to shut off Javascript (and Java, to be safe), that will probably take care of it. Also, some browsers have separate settings that can just refuse to let anyone but you open a new window.
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posted on
02/24/2013 11:30:01 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: publius911
I haven’t used Exploder in ten years!
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posted on
02/24/2013 11:33:42 AM PST
by
Arthur McGowan
(If you're FOR sticking scissors in a baby girl's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
To: Arthur McGowan
Newsmax is particularly horrible and I won’t go there. To make matters worse they spam crap all over Facebook too.
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