[Marie]

AdBlock Plus. I swear by it. Only takes a few seconds to instal and works like a charm. (You’re going to love it.)

[golux]

It’s time to thgrow dwn the gtguntlet on confusding posts.

[thackney]

reading news links from Free Republic

It is not Free Republic, your computer is infected.

[Boogieman]

Firefox with AdBlockPlus and NoScript addons should fix you right up.

[miss marmelstein]

My problem, too. No fault of the great FR. But it doesn’t advance people’s knowledge to be driven crazy by pop ups and audio ambushes.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Chrome with adblock.

[Slump Tester]

No, just lose Internet Explorer and use Google Chrome. No ads at all. you can even import your old bookmarks/favorites. The only bug is there’s no home button (by default), until you go into the settings and enable it.

[Responsibility2nd]

The Gguntlet of reading news on Free Republic

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Are you a monthly donor? You’ll find a lot less Gguntletting if you donate.

[GeronL]

Some news sites have a “print version” without all the ads

We should use it more often.

[Gen-X-Dad]

Download the Ghostery plug-in for your browser. Block everything it tracks and your problems are solved. You won’t have any script issues because it will all be blocked before it can fire off the script. It is fascinating to also watch how many things are tracking you by pausing Ghostery blocking the trackers, widgets, and analytics and ads. I have seen up to 30 trackers on web pages before. Also, you get a nice speed boost by shutting all of that garbage down.

[Pollster1]

Put me on the list endorsing a good ad blocking option (such as AdBlock). Other than that, your best option is to see what else FR regulars recommend (such as a NoScript option). You won’t in general get a good website that stays current on the best strategy, and no one strategy will continue to work. The best you can do is update your approach once or twice a year to block most of the garbage.

[Ray76]

IE is the problem.

Use PaleMoon

[Mount Athos]

i also use adblock with no-script on firefox (ok palemoon but same thing)

[Diogenesis]

Try a different browser.

[humblegunner]

Never seen a single ad or pop-up or oddly underlined text on FR.
It’s you, man. Not FR.

[Responsibility2nd]

Really the problem would be solved if it weren't for lazy posters who will not or can not post a thread correctly.

This has pissed me off for some time. I posted about it some years ago. If people posted enough info, we wouldn't need to click the source link and be subjected to so much Gguntletting.

 

You do know that you can post more than 10 words in a thread, don't you?

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:44:13 AM · by Responsibility2nd · 61 replies

05/11/2011 | Responsibility2nd

As more and more FReepers (old and new alike) post articles, they really need to pay attention to what they are doing. I know there is a need to excerpt many articles, but remember - you have up to 300 words or no more than 1/2 of the article if it is less than 300 words. May I make some basic suggestions when excerpting? In addition to the above mentioned FR guidelines, please copy and paste the "who-what-when..." of the article. Earlier today, someone posted an article about a student getting arrested at school for an item found in his...

 

[Vendome]

Turn your computer off.

That’s free!

[smokingfrog]

See #5

Certain websites - Examiner, Huffpo, The Blaze (for example) are really bad about running scripts on your computer.

[TomGuy]

Many of the blog sites are the worst. They crash my older IE-based browser I use for FR.

Usually, I copy the links and open them in Firefox, as FF has several add-ons/extensions that address the problem. On my laptop, I have been trying out the 32-bit version of Palemoon. The 32-bit version runs Firefox extension. The 64-bit version has problems with some of the extensions.

Typical FF/Palemoon extensions I run include: Adblock Plus, several do-not-track extensions (DoNotTrackMe, Ghostery).

[UB355]

I use Opera with their AdBlock plug in