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Return of the Pop-up Ads

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  • September 9, 2017 at 11:57 am #27616
    Leviathan

    They are back, those annoying ads for some car components or something. They jump you down the page and have to be dismissed before you can go back to reading the articule or they will keep hijacking the screen and scrolling you down. V. annoying. I really don’t mind relevant ads, I often click through for bike related items, but this ain’t right.

    Almost as annoying as when a Fosters advert started to talk to me on the C4 Player, just like Minority Report.

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  • September 10, 2017 at 7:02 am #901935
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    Gasman Jim
    SingleSpeed wrote:
    Learn how to log into terminal and block sites via hacking your localhost folder

    It’s really quite a simple process, just make yourself a root user of your system then add one of the myriad lists of advertising site IP addresses to your host file, and next time you’re browsing there are literally no adverts…anywhere…ever.

    You can also go into developer mode in Safari and edit the console and now I don’t even get adverts in youtube…lifehacking at its best đŸ™‚

    This sounds brilliant…if only I knew what it was and how to do it!

    September 9, 2017 at 10:19 pm #901933
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    ktache

    I have thought about it but

    I have thought about it but then I’d have to watch it all to find out what product they are desperately attempting to sell me.

    September 9, 2017 at 9:11 pm #901931
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    davel

    Report them via the link down
    Report them via the link down the bottom of the page.

    September 9, 2017 at 7:35 pm #901929
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    srchar

    SingleSpeed wrote:

    SingleSpeed wrote:
    Learn how to log into terminal and block sites via hacking your localhost folder

    This technique can be usefully extended by using the ad-blocking hosts file in conjunction with your own DNS server, running on an old computer, a Raspberry Pi, even your router if you install something like DD-WRT on it.

    Any device on your network, whether a laptop, mobile, tablet – anything – will then be free of ads.

    September 9, 2017 at 3:54 pm #901927
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    SingleSpeed

    Learn how to log into

    Learn how to log into terminal and block sites via hacking your localhost folder

    It’s really quite a simple process, just make yourself a root user of your system then add one of the myriad lists of advertising site IP addresses to your host file, and next time you’re browsing there are literally no adverts…anywhere…ever.

    You can also go into developer mode in Safari and edit the console and now I don’t even get adverts in youtube…lifehacking at its best đŸ™‚

    September 9, 2017 at 12:15 pm #901925
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    ktache

    That one keeps getting me,

    That one keeps getting me, leviathan.

    September 9, 2017 at 11:58 am #901923
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    Leviathan

    Naughty ad, bad ad, go to

    Naughty ad, bad ad, go to your room.

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