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Post by sweetpea on Nov 23, 2015 23:58:14 GMT
being plagued by unwanted annoying popups/ads.
Any reccommendations for a good FREE popup blocker?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 4:32:15 GMT
I get no ads on my tabletop computer. I downloaded a thing called Adblock. It was free. It doesn't work on my laptop though. I don't know why.
I've started to get ads that talk and sing to me now, on my laptop. They are very annoying  |
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Post by Geranium on Nov 24, 2015 5:27:39 GMT
Sorry, SP - I simply don't know. I do know that I'm getting more and more advertising emails these days - I try to find the 'unsubscribe' on them. Someone must be selling my address on! Annoying to say the least.  |
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Post by Rosie on Nov 24, 2015 11:23:19 GMT
I'll find out which one I have on my wee netbook sweetpea, If I find it i'll let you know cos it works very well  |
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Post by Rosie on Nov 24, 2015 11:24:43 GMT
Sorry, SP - I simply don't know. I do know that I'm getting more and more advertising emails these days - I try to find the 'unsubscribe' on them. Someone must be selling my address on! Annoying to say the least. If you order online Geranium make sure you tick that you don't want your details passed on, reputable companies shouldn't sell on e mails if you do. |
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Post by roofgardener on Nov 24, 2015 15:22:29 GMT
Sorry, SP - I simply don't know. I do know that I'm getting more and more advertising emails these days - I try to find the 'unsubscribe' on them. Someone must be selling my address on! Annoying to say the least. If you order online Geranium make sure you tick that you don't want your details passed on, reputable companies shouldn't sell on e mails if you do. Sadly, this doesn't always work Rosie  I signed up with Adobe when I purchased Photoshop. I ticked the "don't send me rubbish" type buttons. But I also did something else. It required an email address, so I deliberately created a new address ... "adobe@roofgarden.org.uk". I used this for the Adobe registration process, and ONLY the Adobe registration process. It was never used for any other purpose. Within 6 months, I was getting junk email targeted at that address, offering goods/products that had NOTHING to do with Adobe or graphics/drawing. The buggers had sold my address to general list merchants ! This is why I will NEVER use a Microsoft Account, as it requires divulging my mobile phone number. I just KNOW that if I give this to them, then within a year I'll start getting unsolicited sales calls from companies I've never heard of. Anyway... this doesn't help Sweetpea. Sorry dude; I don't know of any. I'm sure they exist though. Actually... most modern browsers have popup blockers built in. What browser are you using sweetpea ? |
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Post by sweetpea on Nov 24, 2015 18:08:33 GMT
Thanks anyway people.
I'm using yahoo. but may revert back to firefox. internet explorer seems to have disappeared from my laptop.
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Post by sweetpea on Nov 24, 2015 18:21:04 GMT
Have just downloaded adblock plus so we shall see how it goes before recommending it  |
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Post by daitheplant on Nov 24, 2015 20:25:41 GMT
Jim, check out www.majorgeeks.com/ They may have something. I have used the site for years and they can be trusted. |
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Post by sweetpea on Nov 24, 2015 23:14:38 GMT
Jim, check out www.majorgeeks.com/ They may have something. I have used the site for years and they can be trusted. ok I will check it out dai. BTW still getting ads blocking half this page.  |
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Post by sweetpea on Nov 24, 2015 23:36:43 GMT
daitheplant Went to that site dai and downloaded something and woohoo thosr annoying ads covering half this page are no longer there so thanks for that. Time will tell of course if it stays like it but will keep you informed.
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Post by Rosie on Nov 25, 2015 10:19:37 GMT
Thats great sweetpea , i still recall which one I use but we do have Norton so it might be through them, we use Firefox as our browser. |
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Post by sweetpea on Nov 25, 2015 10:50:34 GMT
so far so good
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