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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts) Thu Jul 12, 2018, 11:23 AM Jul 2018

Is the commercialization of the internet...

blowing out your screen loading times with ads, popups, and trackers?

There are free ad blocking offerings that shut all that down. They really work - with options to allow ads from sites you want to support, or even allow unobtrusive ads across the board in support.

Do they work?

You bet your ass they do! Just today, as of now, I am at:

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Is the commercialization of the internet... (Original Post) yallerdawg Jul 2018 OP

I'm wondering what ads your thread will cause to appear off to the right hand side of the page. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2018 #1

I will have no idea. yallerdawg Jul 2018 #2

uBlock Origin hunter Jul 2018 #3

What happens now is... yallerdawg Jul 2018 #4

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,739 posts)

1. I'm wondering what ads your thread will cause to appear off to the right hand side of the page. NT

Reply to yallerdawg (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2018, 11:42 AM

Jul 2018

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

2. I will have no idea.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 12, 2018, 11:47 AM

Jul 2018

I can't disable my ad blocker and see any - as a financial supporter of DU (Star Member) I don't get ads here - period.

hunter

(38,866 posts)

3. uBlock Origin

Reply to yallerdawg (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2018, 10:39 PM

Jul 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin

I don't block advertising on sites I wish to support. Generally, sites I wish to support don't have obnoxious advertising.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

4. What happens now is...

Reply to hunter (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 13, 2018, 07:18 AM

Jul 2018

all these ads start to load, then popups, then videos - the screen jumps around, you click on an item or link and the screen jumps - and you just went somewhere you have no idea...

I have some sites where there are over 100 ads and tracking apps per page (I pay my ISP $120.00 a month for two 'lines' at our house)!

My free ad blocker now offers multi-layer blocking - allowing unobtrusive ads, social media tracking, whitelisting sites we want to support - two click disabling of blocker when popular sites 'insist' you must see ads.

Now we have "Sponsored" feeds in our "news and highlights." You have to click on them, and they don't block.

Commercialization finds a way.

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