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
twomers 408 Posting Virtuoso
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Jump to PostIf 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.
Jump to PostI find it quite funny that a "modern" web browser needs an add-on to block content from a predefined list of urls.
it doesn't, if you know a bit about how to configure your system.
Just add some lines to your hosts file that redirect all domains for ads to …
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Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
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.
twomers 408 Posting Virtuoso
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!
Ezzaral 2,714 Posting Sage Team Colleague Featured Poster
If you'd use IE7 on Vista you wouldn't have to worry about those annoying popups.
Probably because they are broke in Vista - like everything else :P
Sturm 270 Veteran Poster
I find it quite funny that a "modern" web browser needs an add-on to block content from a predefined list of urls.
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
I find it quite funny that a "modern" web browser needs an add-on to block content from a predefined list of urls.
Quite funny, now that you mention it, most modern browsers don't include an ad blocker utility (Opera being the exception, which I presume you're using). However, that doesn't necessarily mean an add-on is needed -- many browsers, Firefox included, allow you to input a custom CSS file. Blocking ads with CSS is fairly trivial.
MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster
Where the ad blocker is really needed is in the website server. :icon_mrgreen:
Sturm 270 Veteran Poster
As in a proxy server that strips ads?
jwenting 1,905 duckman Team Colleague
I find it quite funny that a "modern" web browser needs an add-on to block content from a predefined list of urls.
it doesn't, if you know a bit about how to configure your system.
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.
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