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30 Oct 2010, 10:56 am

I'd been a member of WP for over a year before I found out there were any adverts on the site, but then I've been using Firefox and Adblock for several years now.

On very rare occasions I use Microsoft's Internet Explorer and the Internet is awful - lots of adverts everywhere, flash pop ups, even some audio adverts! I don't know why anyone still uses Internet Explorer nowadays as their main browser. IE is also so damn slow - it doesn't help that it downloads all those graphics based adverts either which take more bandwidth than the pages I actually want to look at!

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30 Oct 2010, 11:04 am

Adblock Plus, FTW, once again. Spitting out pills?

What's kind of interesting is the way that both on-line and off-line "respectable" media seem to pretty much have a blackout regarding the whole topic of adblockers.

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'Course the comments on the omission are kind of funny.

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30 Oct 2010, 11:05 am

Jediscraps wrote:

I thought I was the only one who was getting aggravated with that boy to the left jumping up and down waving at us. It was setting me on edge.

Yes, that one really needs to go ....

Alex, could you please let someone know that ad is driving some of us bug-nutty over here?

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30 Oct 2010, 11:17 am

is there any kind of ad block for internet explorer? i'm not downloading firefox because i dont know how to use it! :twisted:

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30 Oct 2010, 11:34 am

richardbenson wrote:

is there any kind of ad block for internet explorer? i'm not downloading firefox because i dont know how to use it! :twisted:

http://simple-adblock.com/

Easy to use and works absolutely fine.

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30 Oct 2010, 11:38 am

thank you very much!

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30 Oct 2010, 11:47 am

it works wonderful! thanks so much again!

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30 Oct 2010, 1:51 pm

I never see any of those jumping kids, etc. The most motion I see in ads is maybe a little occasional slideshow action which doesn't bother me. I'm using the Camino browser.

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30 Oct 2010, 2:05 pm

Use firefox and download the adblock. It really cuts out these ads.

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30 Oct 2010, 3:31 pm

I like the bouncing boy and pill-spitting girl. Especially the bouncing boy.

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30 Oct 2010, 3:47 pm

I agree... most are really irksome. The bouncing boy is okay, but the rest of them...

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30 Oct 2010, 3:50 pm

I installed adblock plus, and enabled it and everything---and the annoying ads are still doing their thing. I appreciate the help though. I don't know what to do. I can't take these ads.

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30 Oct 2010, 3:57 pm

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I installed adblock plus, and enabled it and everything---and the annoying ads are still doing their thing. I appreciate the help though. I don't know what to do. I can't take these ads.

I'm using firefox and used the adblocker that the 2nd poster gave and I don't have any ads anymore.

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DandelionFireworks wrote~ I like the bouncing boy and pill-spitting girl. Especially the bouncing boy.

oh, the bouncing boy was seriously irritating me.

The pill spitting girl was a weird ad. It look like someone shoved a bunch of pills in her mouth and she was projectile vomiting them across the screen. It did kind of look funny to me but since it was at the top I could scroll down and ignore it.

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30 Oct 2010, 4:07 pm

Those Zappos ads are creepy looking. It's like someone skinned a woman and made a muppet out of said skin.

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30 Oct 2010, 4:15 pm

I've started using AdBlock a couple months ago.

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30 Oct 2010, 4:19 pm

dreamwalker wrote:

http://simple-adblock.com/
Easy to use and works absolutely fine.

Glider18, download this, once downloaded close all browsers and re-open IE. blocks everything! its so much better!

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