Ads everywhere!

Discussion in 'Software' started by kjhansen56, Jun 6, 2013.

  1. kjhansen56

    kjhansen56 Corporal

    I don't know if everyone is having this problem or just me, but it seems that everytime I click on a button a full-screen ad appears. Pop-ups are turned off, but these don't appear to be pop-ups. One jumped up when I clicked on this text box. They appear all the time, everywhere. It's driving me crazy. Especially annoying is the ad that constantly tells me I have to update Flash player when I know I don't need to.
    Is there anything I can do about these ads?

    Not only that, although perhaps related, Mozilla and Chrome are both running SLOW relative to what they used to be. I've run my anti-spyware program (Spybot Search and Destroy), my anti-virus (Avast!) and my registry clean-up to no avail. May be it's all the ads...

    Keith
     
    kjhansen56, Jun 6, 2013
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  2. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    Get AdBlockPlus for Mozilla FF. http://adblockplus.org/en/firefox
    I added two filter subscriptions. I'm in the US so you might need something different in another country.
    The subscriptions are: Easylist and Fanboy's Adblock List.
    On an XP computer I also have EasyPrivacy.
     
    plodr, Jun 6, 2013
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  3. kjhansen56

    kjhansen56 Corporal

    Thanks!
    Keith
     
    kjhansen56, Jun 6, 2013
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