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!
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?
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.
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.
I’m using Chrome with “uBlock Origin” with GREAT results!!!
“Ad Block Plus”, in comparison, is fatter/bloatier, slower & more memory intensive.
“uBlock Origin” is very HIGHLY recommended!!!
I like the Strawberry-Cinnamon Pop-ups myself.
I also have been looking at posters’ born on dates more often as well, primarily as one means of credibility assessment.
FR doesn’t have pop-ups
I use ghostery and I have to tell you it is the best blocker I have ever had. No Ads. You formulate what you want to see. For example I use disques so that comes through.
You formulate it by going to sites and dropping down the ad piece and clicking the various ad streams off.
I like it better than adblock or any of the others I have used.
No ads on Breitbart, except for their own at the top of the page, NO ads from Daily Mail, none from any where.
It is great, everything loads quickly. and it is free!
I cannot speak too highly of it.
https://www.ghostery.com/try-us/download-browser-extension/
FR doesn’t do ads or popups. Other sites do, and your browser can be set to reject most popups.
Always open links in a “private browsing” window.
My browser OS allows me to block popups. There are also apps or extensions that do the same. I’ve never seen a popup on FR, though, even before I blocked them. You mean on sites linked on articles posted to FR, correct?
this may be the only site on the internet that is not filled with garbage programming that slows down a computer It’s not fair to say those popups are from FR.