Which is the best pop up ad blocker?

[harry]

As above. Driving me mad some of these.

[Chris Hogg]

Choice of ad blocker may be browser dependent. I have Firefox. I used to use Adblock Plus, but switched to uBlock as it was supposed to be quicker and use less space. Can't say I noticed a big difference, they both work. Some web sites won't load if you have an ad blocker running, but they're few and far between IME.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Chris Hogg escribió:

uBlock + Ghostery + someonewhocares.org hosts file = No ads. No malware. Bliss.

[Chris Hogg]

Yes, I also use Ghostery. Don't know about someonewhocares.

[Brian Gaff]

I do finde the U block ones faster here. They also do not have that default let through thing that Add block has. I do not like the way they make money by taking it from advertisers to get them on the white list. This is blackmail.

There are also some ad block detection stoppers around appparently, and its all getting very silly. If adverts were handled as they used to be as part of the web site and not injected from who kows where and take up loads of space and are disruptiive then who worries.

Its the ridiulous over the top adverts we do not want. In my case as a blind user, not only do they cause annoyance but can in fact render a web site inaccessible without an ad blocker. Brian

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Brian Gaff escribió:

Then we'll just install ad-block detection stopper blockers. Or just not use that website, which deprives them of the ad revenue anyway. Sorted. :)

Yes. I have zero sympathy for the advertisers though.

If they think shoving intrusive jumping, blinking, auto-playing video at top volume, pop-up, pop-under, screen-greying-out, malware-foisting, Flash-laden, bandwidth-slurping, misleading crap in my face is going to make me more likely to buy their s**te, they're badly mistaken.

They're solely responsible for the situation they find themselves in now. Boo hoo.

[pamela]

You're usually good at using "OT" but not this time. :-)

[Davey]

Same here. Should I care, what do they block?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Fundamentally te attempts tio screw miney out of me with in yer face carp means I have stopped reading the DT.

Even as a view on what te Tory party propaganda machine is up to, its not worth it

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Davey escribió:

Just about every ad-flinger, tracker and malware site out there, plus some. Frequently updated.

[newshound]

The subject line was pretty helpful, and I suspect that most of us use the web a lot, so not *really* off topic.

Much as it might damage my street cred to agree with harry about something.

[T i m]

I think 'OT' is his newsreaders default setting these days. ;-(

Shirley there must be a better forum for much of his political 'stuff' than one aimed at d-i-y or maybe he pollutes others as well?

I preferred the old days when OT's were few and far between and even then, they generally were on things people were trying to do themselves?

Ooops, my bad, harry is trying to convince (tell) everyone to vote out (pretty well), all by himself.

As a countermeasure to harry, anyone who has asked me for my opinion on the in / out thing I've recommended 'in' (even though I have no feeling either way). ;-)

Cheers, T i m

[polygonum]

Aside from anything else, I am pretty sure I don't want to be on the same side as harry. :-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Harry doesn't even know what side he is on. He is all for brexit, but the quickest way his solar panels will become junk is if we leave the EU.

I suspect he is really for 'remain' and has been told to act like a racist islamophobe to make brexiteers look bad.

[T i m]

Hehe.

'I refuse to join any club that would have harry as a member ...'.

Cheers, T i m

[polygonum]

That was pretty much what went through my mind. :-)

[Slomo]

Just another utterly silly conspiracy theory.

Harry is clearly a rabid bigot and that's why he wants out of the EU and he's too stupid to even realise what might happen to his panels.

[newshound]

+2 (with a touch of Voltaire)

[pamela]

Unfortunately not to my filters!

Should we discuss the price of milk as if it was on-topic because most of us drink it? :-)

Aha! So back me up!

[pamela]

When I filter out the OT threads it removes large chunks of this group, so I guess there must be a lot of off-topic stuff here.