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cloudy_christine

12 years ago

I'm seeing ads on GardenWeb! I never see ads! Is anyone else having this new problem? It's not just Garden Web. THe weather site had a video of a cup of coffee bouncing and weaving ("mornings are not always smooth"). Moving ads give me headaches.

A few days ago I updated Firefox, but things were okay at first.

Any thoughts?

Comments (10)

triciae
12 years ago
CC, yesterday early morning I had blue Oreos ALL OVER GW. They disappeared mid-morning. Seriously, the entire screen was blue with Oreos everywhere. I couldn't even read the text 'cause it was under the Oreos.

/tricia
cloudy_christine
Original Author
12 years ago
Well, Firefox just updated itself again, to 5.0.1. I hoped that would be the fix, but no.
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cloudy_christine
Original Author
12 years ago
The Easy List filter in AdBlock Plus had somehow gotten un-enabled. In Firefox Preferences, going to "Manage Add-ons" let me get it working again. I'll leave it to DH to figure out how that could have happened.
compumom
12 years ago
I had the same Oreo's on my GW yesterday too! It drove me off of the site!
Today, no problem and nothing updated!
sushipup1
12 years ago
I haven't seen an ad yet. I did not upgrade my FF to the 5.XX whatever version.
annie1992
12 years ago
Yes, I had some problems yesterday with the Oreo ads too, both at work where I'm using Explorer and at home using Firefox.

Today it seems OK so far....

Annie
rosewitch
12 years ago
I use Firefox with Adblock Plus and NoScript. Using NoScript involved a bit of a learning curve but I soon figured out how to adjust it for every website I use. I have the setting set to block most things and if I click on a link and can't see everything I want all I have to do is click once to temporarily allow all on the page. I never see the green underlines or any ads here and have never seen the oreo blue screen that is making life miserable for a lot of people here. And I didn't have to find and figure out how to get the EasyList they talk about on the Kitchen Table.

Here is a link that might be useful: NoScript
cloudy_christine
Original Author
12 years ago
I had NoScript for a while but I disabled it because it drove me nuts having to deal separately with each page.
AdBLock Plus alone seems to do all that I need.
dedtired
12 years ago
Just have to say how much I love AdBlock. When I am forced to use IE, I am stunned by all the carp out there. I would not even be able to use my Yahoo email if I had to look at their gross ads all the time.

Glad it's working for you, CC.
cloudy_christine
Original Author
12 years ago
I love it too, Pam. I couldn't believe what the wonderful Pandora site looked like when the filter was off -- suggesting I meet singles in my area!

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