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D1nk0
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09 Mar 2008, 7:58 pm

Ive noticed that the last 10 times I posted here, after I clicked the 'Submit' button an add appeared on the screen. There was a n option to "skip add" but I wonder whats going on. Has the admin decided to allow adds here on WP? Perhaps as a way to generate a litte extra revenue to keep it up and running.....



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09 Mar 2008, 8:06 pm

I haven't had pop-up or pop-unders like that. Maybe you have some malware on your computer?


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09 Mar 2008, 8:09 pm

D1nk0 wrote:
Ive noticed that the last 10 times I posted here, after I clicked the 'Submit' button an add appeared on the screen. There was a n option to "skip add" but I wonder whats going on. Has the admin decided to allow adds here on WP? Perhaps as a way to generate a litte extra revenue to keep it up and running.....


It sounds like your computer may be infected with something that's inserting interstitials into websites.


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10 Mar 2008, 12:25 pm

Use Firefox, and try some of the add-ons such as Adblock Plus, Flashblock, McAfee SiteAdvisor, NoScript (Big fan of this one - it may permanently solve your problem), QuickJava, Refcontrol (controls what get sent as the HTTP referrer), and CS Lite for cookie control.

That's what I'm running. It may seem like a lot, but it doesn't slow down my browser - quite the opposite, in fact. You can find these add-ons on the Mozilla website - just search for add-ons and then search them by name.


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