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.
And keep videos from automatically playing- with no way to turn them off.
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.
I hate those automatic ads.
They should be illegal! Petition the FCC to make them pay for the extra bandwidth they’re using!
I notice I’ll be on Facebook and there’ll be an interesting-looking video. I click on it, it goes to another page, the video starts to play, but then some audible ad comes on, drowning out the video that I’d clicked on the site to enjoy! Then I have to scroll around, trying to find the offending ad to pause it. VERY annoying. How can they possibly think enticing people to watch a video, then drowning it out, would make us buy their products? I wish I could follow the inventor of audible ads to a restaurant, and when he picks up the menu, I’ll shove a picture of Helen Thomas in front of his face and say, “No, you don’t get to look at what you want to look at. I’ll choose what you look at.”
It’s the durned videos that automatically start that bugs me.
Long ago, I used to put up with ads because I felt the authors and websites deserved a little something for their efforts.
Then came the audible ads, the scripted ones that blocked the screen till you clicked, the ones that try to install malware...
I installed adblock plus and was done with the whole mess. Failure to police their own behavior will be their undoing. On my computer, I did the adblock opt-in to display well mannered adds. My wife didn’t even want to see those.
I have gotten dozen of those ads since switching to Chrome a few months ago.
Not the ads but the audible part is easy. Turn off the volume.
Audibles don’t get through to me, I don’t have speakers connected. If there’s something I want to hear, I put on the head set.
I’m very happy with Pale Moon / Adblock Edge
Note ‘Adblock Edge’ is a different thing than ‘Adblock Plus’
Adblock+ is available for all the major browsers; if I had the time, I would download the source code and port it back to NT 5.x...
Chrome has a feature that will let you know which tab is the problem. For me, Adblock has been a lifesaver. It doesn’t stop the problem completely, but it helps.
Use Firefox with AdBlock Plus.