What software I can use to block advertisements on web pages including "Yahoo Answers'" matrimony Ads?
Some times there are numbers of questions and answers that I share with my family but I had for them to see matrimonial ads even on Yahoo Answers!!! What software can I do to block those Ads?
Thanks in advance, give your free opinion, I have cable internet.
2008-07-16T17:33:58Z
I started using FireFox ABP and by accident blocked jimobasa's display image. lol
Thanks for your answers!!!
2008-07-16T20:10:15Z
Whoever mentioned FireFox Ad-Block, Thank you for your answers. Rest of you just got two points for no reason.
Mike2008-07-16T15:09:01Z
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If you're using Firefox, download Adblock, flashblock, and NoScript. If you're not already here's the links.
Firefox. It is much more secure than Internet Explorer, and it has a built in popup blocker.http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Adblock. What it does is it block ad's, and popup's that slip in under Firefox's built in blocker. To block an ad do this: Right-click on a banner and choose "Adblock Image" or "Adblock Frame" from the menu, click image to block that specific ad, or click frame to block the frame(what the difference between Image and Frame is, when you block the image, the frame is still there, and the ad you blocked wont be shown again, but the frame will show other ad's except the one you blocked, so when you block the frame there can be no more ad's because the frame that showed them is gone). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
NoScript. What it does is it allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains, and websites of your choice. and to block them from running on websites that you don't want to run Java, and other related programs. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
Flashblock. what it does is it stop's all flash content on a page from loading, such as animated ad's. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
Once FireFox is installed, you can quickly access what Add-Ons are available by clicking on "Tools" (form the top menu bar) and "Add-Ons"
Another nice feature (although it only works for images) that comes with using FireFox is that you can right-click on images and select the "Block Images from..." which helps out a fair bit.
Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and, Firefox. I believe they all have a Pop-Up blocker built in. For IE: click on Tools / Pop Up blocker / Pop Up blocker settings / you can set Filter Level to High and it will block just about all Pop-Up's, that's the way I have mine set all the time.
I would suggest using Mozilla Firefox as your web browser, and getting script and ad blocking plug-ins. Adblock Plus and NoScript work great for me. You can get them through the Firefox website. I hope they work for you.