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I'm sure some of you guys have this already, but I downloaded this the other day and it's made my life (pretty much), so I thought I'd share. It's an addon for FireFox which blocks those annoying adds you see all over the place. Deffo worth the download, IMO.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
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If you'd use IE7 on Vista you wouldn't have to worry about those annoying popups. I never get popups (well almost never) unless I click a link to allow them for the current site, including DaniWeb.
Don't PM me with questions -- you might get a nasty PM in response. If you have a question then post it in one of the forums.
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See, it's not just popups, Dragon. It's those adverts that are on main webpages, those annoying animated smileys etc. You know the ones. All gone!
Last edited by twomers; Nov 19th, 2007 at 3:40 pm.
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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon 
If you'd use IE7 on Vista you wouldn't have to worry about those annoying popups.
I find it quite funny that a "modern" web browser needs an add-on to block content from a predefined list of urls.
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Originally Posted by Sturm
I find it quite funny that a "modern" web browser needs an add-on to block content from a predefined list of urls.
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
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Where the ad blocker is really needed is in the website server. 
Last edited by MidiMagic; Nov 19th, 2007 at 10:36 pm.
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Originally Posted by Sturm
I find it quite funny that a "modern" web browser needs an add-on to block content from a predefined list of urls.
Just add some lines to your hosts file that redirect all domains for ads to 127.0.0.1 and they'll never show up again.
Needs some maintaining when you encounter a new adserver, but the most common ones (google, doubleclick, maybe one or two more) will cover 90% or more of all ads.
As people are clearly allowed to attack me but I'm not allowed to defend myself, I no longer post to this site.
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