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OK people, this is a fortuitous story for me. I was about to write a post asking how to get my browsing experience back and this comes up. I know you guys probably know all the secrets, but I'm out of the loop. Every site, and I mean every site now has pop ups, automatic starting adds that I can't stop talking, and almost every conceivable pisser offer known to man. I click on a page and an add starts automatically while I'm trying to read the page. Then a pop up page comes up and you click the X to close and a box comes up offering to stay on the page I'm trying my best to close. Then the page underneath starts playing another add. If I finally find the box that is talking, there is NO BUTTONS to stop it, mute it, or pause it. If I go to The Blaze.com, you can hear an add start automatically, but it cuts out every other word or syllable. I don't have any malware or virus according to MalwareBytes and AVG. I have Ghostery and Addblock plus.

I'm hoping someone has something besides ridicule.

PS. There is also the case where you listen to the ad, then you listen to the video you wanted in the first place, then another add plays automatically and the next video plays that you didn’t ask for, the you finally stop the video to read the comments below and another video starts to play while you are banging on stop. They just play without any clicking and won’t stop until you just kill the whole window. I’ve even gone to the bathroom with the video stopped and 2-3 minutes later, I hear another ad and another video starting back up. It’s just no fun anymore fighting the bloodsucking leeches.

Right, well, first off: which browser are you using? I am only familiar with Opera and a bit of Firefox but others might have more knowledge with other browsers. Oh, and which OS as well are you using? Since I am most familiar with it and appreciate it so, perhaps you can try switching to Opera.

In Opera, you can try the ScriptKeeper extension if the standard Adblocker Plus and Ghostery ones don’t help. In extreme cases you can try the Readability extension to view only the text sections of the webpage you are visiting.

In Firefox, try NoScript Security Suite for the same problem(s).

Good luck. :)