Posted on 03/03/2015 11:27:56 AM PST by leopardseal
I notice I’ll be on Facebook and there’ll be an interesting-looking video. I click on it, it goes to another page, the video starts to play, but then some audible ad comes on, drowning out the video that I’d clicked on the site to enjoy! Then I have to scroll around, trying to find the offending ad to pause it. VERY annoying. How can they possibly think enticing people to watch a video, then drowning it out, would make us buy their products? I wish I could follow the inventor of audible ads to a restaurant, and when he picks up the menu, I’ll shove a picture of Helen Thomas in front of his face and say, “No, you don’t get to look at what you want to look at. I’ll choose what you look at.”
It’s the durned videos that automatically start that bugs me.
My Firefox has been locking up several times a day now for a couple of months or so. Tried uninstalling and re-installing to make sure I had the most current version ... still locks up. Tried Pale Moon as well ... don't remember it locking up but it was very slow. I don't like IE but use it occasionally. I'm almost about to try Chrome 😝
Long ago, I used to put up with ads because I felt the authors and websites deserved a little something for their efforts.
Then came the audible ads, the scripted ones that blocked the screen till you clicked, the ones that try to install malware...
I installed adblock plus and was done with the whole mess. Failure to police their own behavior will be their undoing. On my computer, I did the adblock opt-in to display well mannered adds. My wife didn’t even want to see those.
I have gotten dozen of those ads since switching to Chrome a few months ago.
What are your settings at?
Did you see post 13?
Yes, I did see that post. I have no idea where the settings are. My husband set the laptop up. and anything else it needs will have to wait until after tax season.
Thank you for the adblock plus tip. First time I have been able to visit brietbart without a long wait and slowness in processing.
In the right hand corner at the top of your screen should be the red X, and below that, three horizontal lines, click on those lines and read down the list, and you will see settings.
Click on settings, and follow the directions at the link in post 13.
Thanks. I’ll see what I can do.
Not the ads but the audible part is easy. Turn off the volume.
I used Firefox but dropped it around v15 because too many extensions quit working. Rapid release prohibited many extension creators to quit updating.
I tried Palemoon (32-bit) but from v24 to v25, several extensions quit working. Again, creators didn’t have time to keep up with the browser upgrades.
I ran across another Mozilla based brower and have been having pretty good results with its 32-bit version: Cyberfox from 8Pecxstudios. I have been using it for several weeks now and have had few problems with it.
https://8pecxstudios.com/cyberfox-web-browser
Audibles don’t get through to me, I don’t have speakers connected. If there’s something I want to hear, I put on the head set.
I’m very happy with Pale Moon / Adblock Edge
Note ‘Adblock Edge’ is a different thing than ‘Adblock Plus’
Adblock+ is available for all the major browsers; if I had the time, I would download the source code and port it back to NT 5.x...
The IE version, of course...
Chrome has a feature that will let you know which tab is the problem. For me, Adblock has been a lifesaver. It doesn’t stop the problem completely, but it helps.
Many thanks for the info, I was not aware of AdBlock’s existence and have since installed it with Opera and it seems to work.
Use Firefox with AdBlock Plus.
Bookmarking this for future reference :-)
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