We all know how irritating it is when you are bombarded by advertising on practically every website you visit. Sometimes it's even difficult to tell the ads from the content. Let's face it, no one visits a website for the advertising, do they?
Before: Weatherbug site with Three blocks of Ads
What can you do? Here's one of the best solutions; it works and it's free!
First of all, visit here and pick up the latest version of Mozilla Firefox browser. Once you have set up the browser, make sure you right-click on the top bar and put a tick by 'Menu Bar'. You'll then see the standard 'File Edit View' menu appear at the top of the browser.
Secondly, from this top menu, click on Tools and then Add-ons. That will open a new tab for the Add-ons Manager. From the left menu, click on Get Add-ons .
To the top right of the tab, you will see a search box. Type in 'Adblock Plus 2.2.3' (without the ') and click search. If the top results do not show Adblock Plus, click on 'See All 85 Results' at the bottom of the list. The next tab should have Adblock Plus at the top of the list. Click ' +Add to Firefox ' and follow the instructions. Adblock will work after you close down firefox and open it up again.
Go to the website with the advertising that annoys you most and test it out. You should notice a big difference. If you want more ads to disappear, carry out the instructions in the previous paragraph and this time search for and install 'Ads no more 2.1'. It's quite safe to have the two add-ins running at once.
After: Weatherbug site with all ads gone!
The examples shown here with the Weatherbug site illustrate just what can be achieved. There's nothing quite as satisfying as visiting a favourite website that was once infested with ads, to find that they have all disappeared and you're left with pure content...which after all, is what you went there for in the first place!
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