ok this pc is aging and well the newer ads some places use and the volume of ads places have anymore makes it freeze up badly
I’m using ms edge and win 10 … im looking for free and easy to use if possible thanks
https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts
Copy this into your hostfile (for Windows: system32\drivers\etc\hosts).
There’s adblocking extensions available for MS Edge. Hit the three dots (settings) towards the top right of Edge, select Extensions, click on Explore more extensions. Microsoft Store will open to the proper section, and just install the one you want. I use Adguard Adblocker; uBlock Origin is well rated as well.
How about Adbock? I use it on both my PC and the Mac, and on Chrome and Firefox.
Try uBlock Origin (or similar); once installed it should work automatically without you having to worry about it or edit any files.
Also, if you pay for Malwarebytes it will filter out “malvertising”.
Another vote for uBlock Origin. Combined with Privacy Badger I see almost zero ads, even on sites like HuffPost and NYDailyNews.
thanks all I dled the ublock and it works like a charm …and wow the number of things it blocks can be astounding …
Using AdBlock with Chrome sounds odd to me, considering Google has spyware baked into Chrome.
I read a news story recently (very sorry I can’t remember where I read it) that implied there is a new trend in place where people are not getting blocked outright but instead the web site is doing something which seems kind of sneaky so that you only see certain ads and you are not informed as to what is happening.
If they block people outright, then people make a mental note and they just avoid any news stories from that site. I’m very sorry if I’m not describing this accurately.
I do know there are several news sites that I will just automatically avoid and if I see a news story that interests me, I use Google to find a list of sites that are carrying it and I then choose one that is not on my mental “shit list” or that is known to me to allow ad blocking.
Ads are a real pain in the neck - especially the ads that blink or strobe or try to lead people into those horrible “click bait” traps.
I’ve been thinking about ad blocking lately and what the best way would be to allow me to visit the sites that do not use abusive techniques.
I’ve noticed there seem to be very few threads and very little discussion on this board about ad blocking. Maybe it’s just that I’m not very adept and finding the threads that discuss ad blocking. But I would have thought many people would be outraged by the struggle going on re ad blocking. Does anyone know either …
- Why there seems to be so little discussion and/or outrage over ad blocking on this board?
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- Where there are some threads with more discussion and hopefully some techniques to avoid the sites that let you start reading a story for a few seconds and then block you and tell you to send them money to subscribe to those sites or to whitelist them.
I would never submit to this kind of blackmail. What a creepy thing to do. I’m referring to sites that let you start to read a story for a few seconds and then block you with a demand for money or a demand to whitelist. It just seems wrong they can get away with that kind of behavior.
Once again: Disabling JavaScript on your browser, while it’s true that it’s a double-edged sword, seems very helpful for many web sites. It disables a lot of functionality, but that is often the kind of functionality you don’t want or really need. A great many ads are blocked.
It gets around the x-free-stories blocks on some news sites, including WaPo and LATimes and NYTimes. (You might need to delete previously-accumulated cookies. I’m not sure, since I never allow cookies to accumulate.) It eliminates a lot of obnoxious behavior, like letting you read a page for 5 seconds then popping up the nag screen that Charlie Wayne mentions.
It causes sites to load much faster, since it blocks a lot of crap.
I suspect that most malware depends on JS, and will be blocked or ineffective without it. I’ve never had any trouble (that I know of) with any kind of malware, and I suspect that blocking JS has a lot to do with that.
It causes relatively minor dysfunction on a lot of sites. Try it and see if you can live with that. YMMV.
Many, but not all, pictures are blocked. So there’s that.
Page layout and formatting is sometimes screwed up – sometimes slightly, sometimes majorly. If a site is so screwed up as to be illegible (some sites will just show you a blank screen), my first choice is to also disable styles. That gives you a totally unformatted page which, while messy, is sometimes even more easily readable than the normal formatted. Even if all you saw was a blank screen, disabling styles will sometimes display it.
You can enable/disable styles without reloading the page. If you enable/disable JavaScript, you need to reload the page.
Interactive sites won’t work.
It works well with SDMB, IMHO. There are NO ads! All the page formatting tools that you can click on, and the smilies don’t work. All the BBCodes still work, but when you compose a post, you have to type them by hand.
Commercial sites, like banks and on-line retail, almost certainly don’t work.
You can always re-enable JS as needed when you want to go to any site where it matters.
Give it a try. I run my browser with JS disabled nearly all the time, enabling it only occasionally when I go to a site that needs it.
The number of mouse-clicks it takes to enable/disable JS varies by browser, and may figure into your decision. In Firefox, for example, the option is buried beneath a few layers of menus. In Safari, it’s on a top-level drop down menu from the main menu bar, requiring just two mouse clicks.
You can do all this without downloading or installing ad blockers, script managers, or anything.
My experience is with Firefox on Linux, and recently with Safari. Not sure how any of this plays with Chrome or any Microsoft browser.
NoScript is a convenient plugin to disable some (or all!) JavaScript.
A few years back I tried turning off JS and for this big list of reasons gave up on it. I spent too much time looking at sites that weren’t loading properly and either disabling it for that site or clicking individual things to get them working and sometimes not even realizing why something didn’t seem right until I remembered that JS is off so some element of the page didn’t load.
It didn’t take long to give up on that. It was, at least for me, more of a PITA to have it off than to live with the risks of having it on.
For me, I use UBlock Origin, FB Purity (specifically for cleaning up and rearranging facebook) and a Pi-Hole. Between those three, not much gets through and with the Pi-Hole, I can disable UBlock if a site is refusing to load because of it and still not get tons of ads.
ETA, Regarding this site, UBlock Origin blocks out all the ads. Turning it off (and logging out), it was still ad free with the Pi-Hole and it’s my understanding that using a Pi-Hole still lets your computer fetch the ads, still lets the site believe they are being served up to the user, they just don’t make it all the way back to my computer, being blocked on the way back. For that reason, the site you’re on should still get paid for the ad, unless it’s taking the extra step to verify it actually loaded on your screen.