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Ad blocker ?

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 9:39 pm
by bmcecosse
More help needed please! Is there such a thing as a FREE Adblocker for Windows 10 ? Any help/advice much appreciated -as ever. Roy

Re: Ad blocker ?

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 8:01 am
by Trickydicky
Hi Roy,
I tend to use Google chrome and an ad blocker called UBlock, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... iagm?hl=en
It works for me and speeds up pages loading.

Re: Ad blocker ?

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:50 am
by MarkyB
I use adblock plus on my browsers, never use internet explorer.
https://adblockplus.org/

Also Ghostery to deal with tracking cookies.
https://www.ghostery.com/

Re: Ad blocker ?

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:15 pm
by mike.perry
Adblock Plus seems to remove most of the rubbish. A red octagonal symbol with ABP inside

Re: Ad blocker ?

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:17 pm
by TDV102
First thing I did when Santa brought my new lappie was create a local account, not a microsoft account. I then turned off targeted advertising in every browser. History is disabled, adblocker added. I disabled add-ons and run all browsers in minimum configuration. I block all spam. The result is a very fast laptop, minimal spam and zero popup ads. Windows 10 is the most unprivate OS yet, in standard form everything you do is recorded and tracked. I've also re-enabled IE, but it runs 'In-private' by default (to do this just right click on the IE icon and add -private after the URL). If you use encryption use a third party solution.

Re: Ad blocker ?

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 6:21 pm
by bmcecosse
Thanks all -and especially TDV - I wish I had a clue how to do all that"

Re: Ad blocker ?

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 9:58 pm
by bmcecosse
Thanks Richard - that Chrome one seems to be working for me! Roy