Posted on 06/19/2018 7:14:44 AM PDT by pabianice
Pop-up ads make using the internet almost futile. I use one that is trumpeted the 'best' It is a total failure.
Suggestions, please, for one that works.
Yeah, Fox News has one that takes over your whole screen!
Ad Blocker plus works for me.
Google Chrome stops them for me.
Adblock Plus
I use Ablock Plus but nearly every website I go to wants me to turn it off before I can get to the site.
uBlock Origin
Very effective and faster.
uBlock Origin (extension for Chrome)
Lightweight and very effective
Ghostery.....................
Ping for later. I use Adblock plus.
I agree....
:-)
AdBlock Plus works for me, but an increasing number of sites have developed ways to check if you are blocking their ads, and then refusing to let you see their content unless you un-block. I refuse and skip those sites.
uBlock Origin on Safari. MAC.
My suggestion is to don’t go to any Drudge related link.
Once bitten...
If I go to those ad-laden sites, I just never go back again. Sort of defeats their purpose of drowning us in ads.
In my early years, in radio, we played ads, too...but we were careful to not get so obnoxious with it that people would turn off their radio. There was (then) an 18-minutes of ads, per hour, limit.
There’s a lot of Youtube videos I’d like to view, but as soon as I see all those little yellow “ad spacers”, I leave the site.
If your *content* is worth viewing, then a flood of ads make it unwatchable.
Some sites Drudge leads you to will start two and three videos at the same time when you open the page.
What browser/device?
I use noscript on Firefox/palemoon which blocks scripts altogether and allows you to enable the necessary ones. Takes some effort at first to enable the “good” sites but it’s well worth it.
There’s a similar tool for chrome called scriptsafe
For iOS I use ad guard free (green shield)
Ublock Origin and subscribe to its lists.
Also...an extension called BehindTheOverlay.
Java developers revived the hated popup with overlays aka lightboxes - usually they are annoying requests to subscribe to sites as if we need more inbox spam.
BehindTheOverlay nukes these popups with a click.
More importantly, I don’t read news sites demanding I take down my ad blocker.
Learn to use a script blocker.
NoScript, Ghostery, JS Blocker
and there are others.
By the time you get done whitelisting all the sites that demand you turn off Ad Block Plus you’re so frustrated you may as well just watch the damn ads in the first place.
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