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What do people on this forum use to get rid of pesky adware and popups. My Firefox browser has just updated itself, suddenly I'm getting a heap of popups.

Adblock Plus is fine. It removes even the ads from Youtube footage.

ORIGINAL: Lützow

Adblock Plus is fine. It removes even the ads from Youtube footage.

+1

It rules.
Unfortunately no more women from Godwhoknowswhere dying just to see me [8|] Darn.

FireFox has the excellent "NoScript" plugin.

Noscript with Ghostery. Or Commercial ADGuard 5 with Ghostery.

And of Course... Hostsman

ORIGINAL: BASB

What do people on this forum use to get rid of pesky adware and popups. My Firefox browser has just updated itself, suddenly I'm getting a heap of popups.

I use Chrome. It blocks pop-ups by default. I never see any, just a little icon that one was blocked.

As an aside, why would anyone want to block ads? All you're doing is giving a giant middle finger to the website operator whose content you're consuming and whose bandwidth bills are paid for by the ads.

ORIGINAL: carnifex
As an aside, why would anyone want to block ads? All you're doing is giving a giant middle finger to the website operator whose content you're consuming and whose bandwidth bills are paid for by the ads.

because I don't like adverts I can avoid

From a Developers perspective I would not recommend NoScript as JavaScript and AJAX are becoming increasingly important for functionality of modern Websites.

ORIGINAL: Mobeer

ORIGINAL: carnifex
As an aside, why would anyone want to block ads? All you're doing is giving a giant middle finger to the website operator whose content you're consuming and whose bandwidth bills are paid for by the ads.

because I don't like adverts I can avoid

I often wonder how people made a living and sold their products without ads? When did ads become a nessessity in survival or retail? Now, I'm all for ads that the producer are willing to pay for out of pocket without consumers becoming a part of that, but, this added charge on things for them to have ads and websites is getting a bit overboard. I'll continue to use adblockers at every avenue I can. I use "adaware" from Cnet myself. Works great and the producer can have all those ads they want and it doesn't bother me a bit. [:-]

ORIGINAL: Lützow

From a Developers perspective I would not recommend NoScript as JavaScript and AJAX are becoming increasingly important for functionality of modern Websites.

You can select from which domain you block scripts. Also you can reload the page with all the scripts enabled.