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Originally Posted by 4691mls
It's only happened with two or three stores so far. Next time I run across s store that does this I'll try another browser - thanks for the suggestion.
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Which do you use now?
I use Firefox as my production browser under Windows, though I have MS Edge, Google Chrome, and a few other things installed to track development efforts.
In Firefox, I use the uBlock Origin extension. uBlock Origin is a generalized blocker, and can block ads among other things. It keeps rules by site. Open it, and you can get a list of all other domains the one you are visiting links to, and individually choose which get permitted and which get blocked. (For a major commercial site, there may be as many as 70 other domains linked to.) You can usually tell which are ad servers by their names, and block them. Depending on the site, it may take some experiments to determine which you can block and which need to be permitted to allow the site to function as expected, but once you have, it's a "set it and forget it" operation.
Completely eliminating ads may simply not be possible. I accept that and carry on. My interest isn't to eliminate ads - it's to make it possible to actually read the site content without ads getting in the way. As long as I can read the site content, I mostly don't care if I see ads.
You can get uBlock Origin for Firefox here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ublock-origin/
Note that major browsers are all moving to a common model for extensions - pure JavaScript with a common permitted access model - and uBlock Origin is available for MS Edge and Google Chrome, too, though there will be differences in the UI.
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Dennis