disableing banners in firefox

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spazz31585

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i have heard a couple people mention on here that you can actually disable banners from being shown on webpages through firefox

due to banner ads, we have become infected with soyware before. and right now i owe money to scholastic because they are continuing to send us books we did not order. called them to tell them we didn't order the shit, and they say it was ordered through someone clicking on a banner

some of my family does not quite understand the fact of not clicking on banners and they don't see any harm in it...i want them gone...please help
 
You should probably check out the firefox extensions. There are a bunch that help with that, although its hard to get rid of "ALL" banner ad's. Its best just to educate those who dont understand on what internet ad's are, and when to NOT click on them.
 
i kinda figured getting rid of all of them would be tough. but i seen someone post something in a thread awhile ago about he doesn't receive banners anymore, that's why i was asking. and it was some thread about tweaking firefox, but i can't remember who it was or what thread

and yeah, teach them about that, that's nearly impossible. that would be like trying to teach a gerbil to do the moon walk. seriously. if you knew my family, you'd understand
 
That was probably me who psoted the no banners thing. To clarify, it doesn't block 100% of banners, but it does bloack alot of them. For instance, I can't see the google or weddesignforums.com ads on this site lol (IE6 shows them)

For starters get the "AdBlock" Extension for Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10&application=firefox

You can download these filters if you want, or search "firefox filters" on Google for others. http://www.pbworks.net/download/index.php?download=adblock-filters.txt

If your filters are too "strong" you may not be able to view certain sites, so mke sure you don't block every thing on the face of the earth. Experiment with different sets and see which meet your browsing needs.

There is more hold on...

http://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/

Follow those instructions. The first "stable" way of blocking ads is the only thing I did. You can go further if you wish to block more or more specific sites and such.

You can actually right-click images you don't want displayed and click "Adblock Image" (you have to have AdBlock installed of course). It adds that image/URL to the block list and you will never see it again :P

http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/whitelist-beta/-wb-instructions.txt - Follow those instructions once you have Adblock and Filterg.set installed and everything should be good. I jsut did this and am very satisfied.

You can also right-click any image on a site, and select "block images from " and this will block ALL images fr...tions > And deleting that site from the lsit.
 
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