Posted on 01/13/2017 5:04:49 AM PST by knarf
I click the FR poster to see how "old" he is and look for him/her in the forum to see if they're a troll or not.
Usually an OK poster, but I get sent to pages that are either blogs or even some (for FR) mainstream pages that take forever to load.
Is it me ..... or memorex ?
I would LOVE to read some of these posts but as I start to read and scroll on the page ... something else loads and sends me back to the beginning od what I started to read
I don’t see pop-ups or ads anymore.
A pop-up riddled site to you is a peaceful and calm site to me.
Using Chrome:
https://www.ghostery.com/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en
FR has no advertisements. If you’re getting pop ups while browsing FR, you’re not getting them from FR. You likely have a toolbar, BHO, adware, or malware installed on your local computer.
As one astute Freeper pointed out last year when the whole controversy about foreign control of the internet was in the news ...
Forget about censorship and digital tracking by foreign powers. The internet is already being destroyed by pop-up ads and clickbait!
I get hardly any pop-ups from free republic links. But free republic has absolutely no means to control the source sites to which the links might reference, because they are actual news and other independent sites under others’ control.
Ad Block Pro and “No Script” plug-ins will take care of 99% of these issues.
It may take a little while to make sure you arent disabling useful features on websites you use if you enable both, but once you do, you will totally not notice them working.
Many conservative sites are infested with popups, and all manner of annoying ad gimmicks, though. So it really isnt the FR poster’s fault. Our side just cant code a webpage without popups and annoying filler it seems.
I know what you mean. “American Thinker”, for example, is virtually unreadable because of all the pop-ups. They may have some good articles, but I will no longer follow a link to that site. Plus, you can usually find a lot of their content on more readable sites.
These days I pretty much avoid all the clickbait sites. “The Federalist” is a much better site, user wise, and has some outstanding writers.
Does anyone here read Power Line? I don’t know if its the ads or pop-ups or whatever, but it takes forever to load on my browser and generally just acts real squirrely. I love the articles/comments though.
Use a browser that allows Adblock or Adblock Plus or similar add-ons. Ghostery is another good option.
If you are serious about control, use NoScript or equivalent add-on, but it takes some learning.
No popups. I’m using Chrome, maybe that matters?
Up until that time, Chrome had been OK with me.
I agree with the previous posts.
1. Scan your computer for malware, using a different program than your usual. The free malwarebytes from cnet.com or malwarebytes.com http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes/3000-8022_4-10804572.html or https://www.malwarebytes.com// (make sure you only download that one program, not the optional bloat) will tell you if you have something directing extra ads to you. Make sure you’re clean first! No skill required.
2. Download at least free adblockplus https://adblockplus.org/ with the pro version if you find it useful. No skill required.
3. Consider ghostery, https://www.ghostery.com/ although that may require a little more thought on the settings.
Even Breitbart http://www.breitbart.com/ is clean with the first two in place. No one should browse without a decent antivirus (and Malwarebytes is both decent and free) and an adblocker.
PowerLine has an obscene amount of ads and upwards of 50 trackers. Web site operators always claim trackers ‘help them understand audience and data trends’ but they are invasive, annoying and slow down page loads.
I would think the visitors to Power Line would be quite obvious, although they do draw their fair share of self-regarding trolls.
Adblock and Ghostery (tracker blocker) are, as always, a must for sites who cannot and will not police themselves.
Bookmark for reference. I can’t even read Breitbart without it crashing my browser.
You can go back to Chrome.
Add Ghostery and 'uBlock Origin'
A month or two ago I started getting ads on youtube videos, searched around and found that 'uBlock Origin' would get rid of all of them on the computer.
(Now to figure out how to get rid of ads on the smart-tv when watching youtube (without going YT Red))
PS - any site doing business with Taboola and Outbrain - purveyors of the bizarre, salacious and flat-out disgusting - deserves to be adblocked with malice.
If the link site is a major Network fake news organization, avoid clicking.
I have been like that for 3 or 4 years.
such sites are simply too large and their whole strategy is to make it difficult for you to go away.
the solution is not only a pop-up blocker button but also simply do not go there.
The semi-nuclear option of blocking domains like doubleclick.net in your router’s firewall can help. Of course, YT is owned by Google and Google has a plethora of ad domains eg googleadservices.com
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