Consider a hosts manager too: http://www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman
Thumbs up for Adblock Plus. The amazing thing is that some sites are unusable without it - what the heck are the site designers thinking?
how come the companies that use these bozos cant be gone after
When are some of these guys going to be hanged?
NoScript and Adblock Plus are your friends.
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I run both & love them ..... when I saw “ads on Drudge” my first thought was “Ads? What ads?” :-)
Add in ‘Ghostery’.
M4L adblock
“Prominent websites including the Drudge Report and Weather.com”
Misleading headline. How many other sites were affected?
Why the Drudge headline? Sounds like the problem is Yahoo! ads .
Adding insult to injury, Flat Sludge has that automatic refresh feature that delivers a new set of ads every few minutes, so if you luck out and don’t get the spyware on the initial load, you might if you linger a while.
Every refresh makes Sludge a little more money.
Flash continues its shameful record of offenses.
Ads with unwanted redirects are causing havoc on iOS devices on certain sites, including L.com. Their laughable defense is that it’s the advertisers’ fault. This may be accurate, but what law is forcing them to carry such ads? Answer came there none.
bfl
I use NoScript and Adblock Plus and Ghostery with Waterfox. I still haven’t figured out how to play videos when I want them to play. So I have to switch over to IE if I want to watch a video on a particular site.
FR has no ads.
Thanks. I already had Ghostery, but added these two.
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Yes, thanks to FReepers’ advice, I put Adblock on last week...I use an iPad. It works perfectly...and Drudge now comes up quickly without all that jumping around. If you watch streaming on your iPad, the VPN server that is “on” to block the ads doesn’t work (for instance time warner)...so when turning those on, just turn off the VPN server (as easily as turning Bluetooth on and off). When back to the news, turn VPN back on. A must have app!