Just alter your hosts file. Hosts files that block ad sites are plentiful, can be found all over the internet for free, and they’re easy to implement. And once you have 'em in, ta da! No more ads!
I hate those siezure inducing ones with all the pretty colors.
Let’s not even mention “Gator”
Grumble grumble.
Spybot’s a free download - probably available via Tucows, etc.
I want to register a complaint about samarm.
He posted a misleading thread title.
I clicked on it, and all I “won” was an opportunity to read this Pit thread!
So I clicked.
Where’s my prize, you lousy spamstard?
Use Mozilla Firebird. Since i started using that instead of IE i haven’t seen a single unwanted popup!
I got tricked into clicking on an ad. It was at a college-oriented commercial website (okay, okay, I was checking myself out at ratemyprofessors.com, okay?) and it was formated to look just like the rest of the website. It was made to look like a poll, that said, “My least favorite part of taking a class is:” and then there was a (supposed) pull-down menu, showing “Writing papers.” I was curious, so I clicked on the (supposed) pull-down menu to see what the other choices were, and I was whisked off to a fucking PLAGIARIST CHEATER MONKEY-DICK-SUCKING term-papers-for-sale site.
If I was running a website, and an advertiser formated their add so that it decieved readers into thinking it was a legitimate part of my site, I would be pissed.
I think I’ve got some of your mail.
Dijon Bitemyass
I’d really love to gather all the idiots that knowingly click these ads and then purchase stuff, put them on an island, and then fill their lives with all the porn, penis enlargment, and viagra ads that plague the rest of us. After all there must be some small group of people out there sustaining the interest in this style of obnoxious marketing.
That’s one of the reasons I got an iMac for my mom. I just introduced her to the internet and her own e-mail (and she has learned very quickly).
My relatives are not so computer savvy and are bound to send her a virus, plus and with the: "Warning! Your computer is broadcasting . . . " messages with comfusing dialogue boxes, I figured that a hideous iMac colour-scheme would help prevent her from clicking on a bad ad. (So far, so good – knock on wood.)
I HATE the warning ones that try to look like Microsoft error messages. Hate, hate, HATE 'em!
Alt + F4
Closes out the unwanted adds without the possibility of screwing it up.