grow up and use Ghostery ad blocker and have no pop ups and nothing to complain about
“... use Ghostery ad blocker and have no pop ups and nothing to complain about.”
I go much farther than that. I use NoScript and RequestPolicy, in a dedicated browser as a dedicated user (on Linux, but works on Windows too, and probably MacOS).
NoScript allows you to control exactly what JavaScript can be run: I set it to disallow everything, which blocks popups and various funny-business, so I can visit random websites with much less danger. Also, sometimes blocking JS can bypass JS-implemented gate-keeping.
This works fine with current FR because FR doesn’t need any JS to read or post. (Or worse yet, JS not locally hosted, which so many sites use).
RequestPolicy gives you the capability to control which Web domains you can visit. But unlike add-ons like Ublock, RequestPolicy has you specify which domains are *allowed* rather than which are blocked. This means that unknown domains are blocked by default rather than allowed by default. (I think that Default Deny is now considered the proper principle for computer security as well as for physical security.)
I have my RequestPolicy set to allow only a few trusted domains such as DuckDuckGo, Google, ... and of course FR. (This means that linked images don’t necessarily automatically display, but even on FR, a surprisingly low percentage contribute much to the posting.
Unfortunately, RequestPolicy requires an old version of Firefox to run, since Firefox adopted much of the internal structure of Google’s Chromium some years ago. (This also has constrained what recent NoScript versions can do.)