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If using I.E. 6, do resolved Best Answers on Y!A display some words/underlines in "blue"?
Up until a few months ago, in the battle to combat spam on Y!A, I was always able
to open dozens (if not 100s) of "resolved" Y!A questions in rather quick succession.
However since mid-May, every B.A. is now riddled with awful blue words/underlines,
and it now takes many seconds to FULLY open a "resolved" Q and scroll down the
page to see ALL of the answers. That's because every time one opens a "resolved"
question, there's actually a mini Yahoo! Search also taking place at the same time.
As such, fighting spam on Y!A has become a real trudge.
Thus I am thinking: if there are NO blue words/underlines in people's Best Answers
when using I.E. 6, maybe I should consider using that browser in fighting the spam.
Please let me know what you see with I.E. 6 - and feel free to add other comments.
@ Dunbar Pappy: What you've written sounds great, but will it actually block those
"blue" words/underlines in people's Best Answers and render them as regular text?
If so, then presumably everytime I open a "resolved" Y!A question, the page should
load instantly and hassle-free. Then again, I wonder if Yahoo! is a 3rd Party to Y!A.
If it's possible, could you also please explain how this may affect visiting YouTube?
3 Answers
- Anonymous10 years agoFavorite Answer
Those stem from scripted assets, delivered from Yahoo paid advertising.
This is one of the problems using iE (any flavor): it does not control these bombardments from advertising and scripted assets.
iE 6 is no longer supported nor recommended by Microsoft...it's way too exploitable.
FIREFOX: Tools> Options> Privacy> top drop menu set to "Firefox will use custom settings..."> Check 'Accept Cookies from sites'
►Un-Check 'Accept 3rd Party cookies'.
My own choices (Official Mozilla) to bolster Firefox is here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/collections/dunbar-papp...
"AdBlock Plus" & "Better Privacy" also help defray rubbish.
►► At minimum, get the #1 item for malware prevention: NoScript, which constrains automagically fetching & deployment of tainted assets.
[see this page for how it works, and how to use it...very simple; http://noscript.net/features#contentblocking
ADD: This arrangement as mentioned should work fine, and speed your page loads, across most domains.
- ?Lv 44 years ago
I supply the final answer to the guy who has helped me the main, nicely i might do, i don't ask many questions approximately right here =] i think of that giving the final answer to somebody who concurs with you is easily.. stupid. you have not learnt something from asking the question aside from that somebody concurs with you. i flow with my progression of expertise =]