What is with the %#!%#!! FLASHING ads? Make anyone else nuts?

[nolabear]

Yes, I get ads. I don't donate right now. I don't mind dealing with the regular ones but suddenly there are a bunch that flash lights and it's making me crazy enough to drive me away. I only have vague migraine issues but I can't imagine what it must be like for people who actually get things triggered by those lights.

Something tells me my lonely little voice wouldn't influence anything but can a general uprising create real change?

[Kalidurga]

1. I don't see any ads

https://adblockplus.org/

[nolabear]

2. You're right. I should do that.

Color me slow.

[ebayfool]

3. Yup - good stuff! n/t

[Cassiopeia]

9. I use ublock origin.

I read some reviews that said it was easier on the CPU than adblock.

I find it works well. To be fair, I've never tried adblock, so I'm not trying to actually make a comparison.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. I believe that, officially,

we're not supposed to do that. Revenue stream, yunno. I have it on good authority, however, that many on DU possess a bit of a contrarian streak.

[Kalidurga]

11. Your user name is appropriate for that contrarian streak

[SwankyXomb]

12. At least one DUer

has accused people using ad blockers of being thieves.

[ljm2002]

4. While I have not seen the ads...

...your description of them as "flashing" makes me nostalgic for the early days of the Web, where every kid's (and lots of adults') new Web page was full of flashing text, 128 pt, often electric green and magenta and black.

Yep, those were the daze!

[nolabear]

5. I remember. Was I the only one fascinated by point-and-click and actual pictures?

[ljm2002]

6. No you weren't the only one...

...that's why the Web took off, it made it so easy!

I was lucky to go to University and then work in the software industry, so I had early exposure to Usenet and email systems. My first foray into getting pictures on the Internet used command line interfaces (I seem to remember something called archie and something else called veronica, I'm sure there were other interfaces) to go and fetch images. But wow, when the Mosaic Web browser came out, I was absolutely blown away! It was, as we did not say at the time, Awesome!

[ryan_cats]

16. I

I miss timecube.

[Sam_Fields]

7. Get the Mozilla Firefox web browser then install the add on Ad Block Pro

No more advertising on the web. I installed ADP when I went to anewspaper web site that had three auto play video ads, two popups. After stopping the videos and closing the pop ups when I was reading the news article for 30 seconds three more pop ups displayed. They are doing it to themselves. For flash set the plugin to ask to activate so you won't be bothered with any flash unless you allow it with a button click.

[SamKnause]

8. Someone suggested installing AdBlock.

I second that suggestion.

It works great and is easy to install.

You can turn it off and on.

I installed it about 4 or 5 months ago.

It has blocked over 300,000 ads.

It has blocked 2 on this page.

It is great if you watch a lot of YouTube videos.

[B Calm]

13. What ads?

[KentuckyWoman]

14. I don't think DU chooses the ads since I've seen RW oriented ones.

I have a star now but prior Adblock worked great. I got it because I didn't want those dang RW oriented ads in my face.

[TampaAnimusVortex]

15. Who runs a browser these days without an ad-blocker?

I can't imagine anyone tolerating the internet for more than a few mins without one...

Everyone should be running ad-blockers, antivirus, antimalware, and possibly also a few add-ins that block tracking.