# Is there a way to avoid all the movie-style ads on news sites? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 16, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-avoid-all-the-movie-style-ads-on-news-sites/412023 "2007-07-16T19:17:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cassie\_In\_The\_Attic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@Cassie\_In\_The\_Attic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cassie_In_The_Attic)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-avoid-all-the-movie-style-ads-on-news-sites/412023/1 "2007-07-16T19:17:33Z")
I want to visit news sites, but they take so long to load. Presumably this is caused by the little clips advertising new movies and dating sites, etc. I would still like to clips of news items when I select them, but not have to wait for the slow load. I suppose the browser is telling sites I have a fast line (or else people with slower services would never be able to use their sites at all). Can I somehow make my browser tell those sites I have a slow line, so I would get the old-fashioned static ads? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-avoid-all-the-movie-style-ads-on-news-sites/412023/2 "2007-07-16T19:29:44Z")
What browser do you use? I use Firefox 2 with the [AdBlock](http://adblock.mozdev.org/) extension and it works great for blocking ads like these. In fact, it’s the #1 reason I switched to Firefox - I was doing development on a Web site that used these types of slow, intrusive ads and it was driving me nuts while I was having to reload the page over and over (during development, of course). There might be similar browser plugins for IE, if that is what you use.