Posted on 03/03/2015 11:27:56 AM PST by leopardseal
This is turning into a curse. I'm getting ads which come up making all kinds of noise and racket ten or twenty minutes after I've had a website open and if I've had ten or fifteen sites open, it can be all but impossible to figure out which one is even causing the trouble. Do any of the current browsers offer any way to block audible ads?
Clear out your history, use disk clean up in systems tools and unless you have an attached virus you should be OK.
I had a cookie on mine that was a jet flying overhead. Had to clear my history. I use Mozilla firefox and haven’t had any other issues.
I’m noticing the last year that scripts are seriously slowing down my whole computer. It gets to where I’ll be typing a post (like this one) and it freezes up for a few seconds and then the characters show up, freezes up again, etc.
And my internet access is via my phone as a hot spot (we live in the sticks) and I pay big bucks for that bandwidth.
Get Firefox with the AdBlockPlus and NoScript extensions and it should block those for you.
I hate these retarded A-holes too!
I open a bunch of windows real quick, so I can breeze through my articles and then I have to listen to competing ads.
Get Noscript and end the madness...
When I use Firefox I never even see ads. At work the make us use Internet Explorer and it’s terrible with ads.
Forget Adblock Plus
I bet you are using Firefox, eh?
I’ve noticed a lot of issues with scripts locking up Firefox, and even Flash player running through Firefox can hog enough memory to freeze a machine.
And keep videos from automatically playing- with no way to turn them off.
Agreed, probably only once a year do I encounter an audible ad that gets through. I use Disconnect also.
Available for Firefox or on the browser I use Pale Moon; best downloaded directly from the browser.
Click Tools, then click Add On's, then in search box type Ad Block Plus, click download
It is easy if you use a Chrome browser:
http://the21stcenturyprincipal.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-to-stop-those-unwanted-auto-audio.html
Other browsers have similar methods. You can probably find specific instructions for your browser on Google or Bing.
Yep. I may have to kiss the fox goodbye.
I can always use Chrome, I suppose...
I haven’t had Firefox “lock up” since at least V1.5 (2005) although we use Pale Moon (a derivative) now. Regarding “memory leak” issues, I’m running it right this moment on a laptop with 512MB with 150MB free and I can leave it up for weeks.
Why on earth do you advocate using NSA’s favorite browser?
You are not going to hinder the NSA in any way by using IE or Firefox.
I regularly use a VPN Service but have no illusions about hiding anything from the feds.
Other than Chromium, try to get a copy of the source code and inspect it.
I hate those automatic ads.
They should be illegal! Petition the FCC to make them pay for the extra bandwidth they’re using!
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