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bastrees
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Joined: 16 Jun 2007
Posts: 232
Location: Southeastern PA
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:05 pm
Is anyone else getting posts either at the beginning of a thread or before recent legitimate posts from "Ads" showing a video link to YouTube? Or did I catch some kind of virus?

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bastrees
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Joined: 16 Jun 2007
Posts: 232
Location: Southeastern PA
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:06 pm
Like the one that is right above my question...
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Laaz
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Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 5607
Location: Dorchester County, South Carolina
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:09 pm
First I have seen it. Might be something forumup added.

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Laaz
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Location: Dorchester County, South Carolina
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:15 pm
Yes it is something forumup added. Other forums are complaining about it too.

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bastrees
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Joined: 16 Jun 2007
Posts: 232
Location: Southeastern PA
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:20 pm
Thanks, Laaz. At least I know that it is not something I picked up on my computer. It is a bit annoying, but I'm sure it can be overlooked with a little practice.

Barbara
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MarcV
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Joined: 03 Mar 2010
Posts: 1457
Location: Schoten (Antwerp), Belgium
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:48 pm
Personally I'm allergic to internet ads. They're often annoying and too distracting. A good ad blocker can help here.

On my screen the 'Ads'- messages show up as empty boxes. I use Firefox as browser combined with the Adblock Plus extension. This keeps my screen ad free! Wink

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gdbanks
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Joined: 08 May 2008
Posts: 251
Location: Jersey Village, TX
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:17 am
MarcV wrote:
Personally I'm allergic to internet ads. They're often annoying and too distracting. A good ad blocker can help here.

On my screen the 'Ads'- messages show up as empty boxes. I use Firefox as browser combined with the Adblock Plus extension. This keeps my screen ad free! Wink


i do not like ads either. i also us firefox and adblock but i also use

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

the amount of ads i see is greatly reduced, though with some online places i have to tweak the host file to make it work. example is with hulu

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MarcV
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Joined: 03 Mar 2010
Posts: 1457
Location: Schoten (Antwerp), Belgium
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:28 am
Using a good filter list with adblock eliminates nearly all ads (I don't see any), but the advantage of using a modified hosts file is that it effects all applications that access the internet, not just Firefox. Smile

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