ke4pym Premium Member join:2004-07-24 Charlotte, NC
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ke4pym
Premium Member
2013-Feb-8 8:38 am
Thank you browser add-onsSpecial thanks to Adblock and Ghostery for keeping this mess off my workstations. |
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openbox9 Premium Member join:2004-01-26 71144
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openbox9
Premium Member
2013-Feb-8 8:43 am
And simply not trusting Facebook to access other content. |
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to ke4pym
Adblock filters are getting sloppy. I notice some ADS getting through now surfing websites :/ |
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Packeteers Premium Member join:2005-06-18 Forest Hills, NY |
to ke4pym
i use Ghostery & WOT (i see no reason why you need to use adblock too) - and noticed a sluggishness when visiting various media sights recently - i wonder if it's tied too all those unresolvable facebook links. |
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MoracCat god join:2001-08-30 Riverside, NJ |
to ke4pym
I like Adblock except that it is bloated. It causes Firefox to use an additional 60 MB of memory. |
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Packeteers Premium Member join:2005-06-18 Forest Hills, NY Asus RT-AC3100 (Software) Asuswrt-Merlin
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unload adblock and see if this helps instead; » www.abelhadigital.com/hostsmanit blocks all the ad IPs using no resources well before you even open your browser and you don't even have to keep it loaded unless you need to enable ads on the fly. |
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to brianiscool
Do you have the "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" unchecked? It's checked by default and I haven't noticed any ads getting through lately. |
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ArrayListDevOps Premium Member join:2005-03-19 Mullica Hill, NJ |
to Packeteers
is there a way to do something like this on my router? |
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BF69 Fan to Morac
Anon
2013-Feb-8 10:59 am
to Morac
in a world where the average new pc has 8 gigs of ram. 60 is an issue? |
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n2jtx join:2001-01-13 Glen Head, NY
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to Packeteers
said by Packeteers:unload adblock and see if this helps instead;
»www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman
it blocks all the ad IPs using no resources well before you even open your browser and you don't even have to keep it loaded unless you need to enable ads on the fly. I used to do that but some ad server IP's also host legitimate content. I started getting to many broken links and found that AdBlock was really the only solution for me. Add in Ghostery to prevent tracking and everything works pretty well. |
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Packeteers Premium Member join:2005-06-18 Forest Hills, NY Asus RT-AC3100 (Software) Asuswrt-Merlin
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yes, i do concede hostsman can occasionally block something commercial you may want - here is a case in point; last summer i started playing a new mmo from a new publisher who freely admitted in their FAQ they were accumulating data for marketing research and university study programs, so naturally hostsman blocked one or both of these entities which in turn disabled part of the game launcher, so in order to play i had to disable hostsman. about 2 months later their blacklists were updated to allow this game to run unfettered. so desirable content may rarely get blocked, but eventually it does seems to sort itself out - and i have since returned to using hostsman without further incident. |
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to BF69 Fan
said by BF69 Fan :in a world where the average new pc has 8 gigs of ram. 60 is an issue? 8GB? Mine has 16GB, but yeah 60MB isn't really a big issue, My browser does better than that, more like 1810MB at the moment.... |
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