[Richard Kimball]

I downloaded it and tried it out on Firefox (use both Safari and Firefox) and WOW. Ads have gotten progressively more annoying, with the talking and the ads that expand when you do mouseovers, along with others that actually cover part of the page text and prevent you from reading the article.

Blocking the ad pages also prevents them from getting info about your browsing habits. Another bonus.

I feel behind the curve, not having used this plug in before.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Blocking the ad pages also prevents them from getting info about your browsing habits. Another bonus. "

You should be using the REFCONTROL 0.8.11 add on. You can set the url referrer address to anything you like, such as http//www.Obama-is-a-Marxist-commie.com. ;)

[Nathan Zachary]

You should also be using "the tor project" anonymous internet as well is you really want privacy.

http://www.torproject.org/

[Star Traveler]

You can use “Hostal” (for the Macintosh), too...

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/hostal.html

It’s a little program that makes it easy for you to handle and manipulate a “hosts” file on your computer... (and this will block web addresses and sites and ads and so on...).

Hosts file
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file