how many times must i turn off the bloody adverts?
mushymanrob
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i cant use this site, despite chosing to opt out and deactivate the adverts, they are immediately re-activated.
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And again!
Internet Explorer doesn't like Adbloc and keeps resetting / disabling it.
Change to Firefox or Chrome
BIB....Not mine it doesn't.
Not had any problems with its stability.
Adblock Plus using IE 11
'Addon'. No ads of any description,ever! Painless site
browsing and absolutely 'clean' for any popups,banners
captions etc.
I don't think I have ad-blockers installed (can't see them on my list of Firefox add-ons anyway).
But I do use a 'hosts' file, which is a list of sites (some 16000 of them) that should be ignored. That seems to get rid of most adverts, and should work across browsers.
Unfortunately getting this set up might not be simple (and might be different between Windows versions). Although in principle it's simple; the contents of this text file, which is at this location in Windows 7:
C:\Windows\Systems32\drivers\etc\hosts
needs to be replaced with one having the full lists of sites. That latter can be downloaded, but you need to be in administrator mode to modify that file.
Then there are the ads that fire off of their own accord and take up the current browser tab (and can also play music). I used to have this problem on phones/tablets. Very annoying on a phone, as it eats up your allowance.
Well we have to have the weekly updates