answers.com

[Arab Nights (imported)]

My email is Yahoo. When I go to their page, there is the typical long list of stuff I scroll thru to see if anything of interest. One that often has interesting titles is answer.com. It comes in many variations: answershollywood, answersmodernlife and so on and on. What I always find is that it either locks up my computer or takes so long to download all the ads etc. that I give up and 'x' out.

Anybody know who 'answers' is? Why are they such a favorite of Yahoo? Maybe it is my computer and they actually work ok for other people.

[Paolo]

Try Firefox with Adblock+

I never see anything like that.

[Riverwind (imported)]

I also use Yahoo and as of late the adds have become worse, I loaded AdBlock like Paolo said and its now clean, nothing, no adds, its wonderful. Try it you will love it.

River

[Dave (imported)]

Lately, the trick has been background ads for sites like Huffington Post or Media-ite and the result is a massive click pad that always seems to go to some ad for a movie or a TV show.

The current one is THE JINX. Even my beloved WALKING DEAD had the most obnoxious video ad that fit into the text of a column and ran a silent video until a cursor ran over it. . . Advertisers and websites want that revenue and are desperate to get it.

[Riverwind (imported)]

One of the things that we explored a couple years ago was advertisement for the Archive, the only ones who would advertise were X rated so we decided that was not the types of adds that we would like, plus when you start advertising on your site the advertiser thinks he owns your page and puts his stuff everywhere. We decided that even though we had ideas to expand this site, the cost was not worth it.

The Archive will remain add free at least for the near future and as always its a free site.

I am glad for sites like AdBlock because the adds have become abusive in nature.

River

[Prudence (imported)]

If it is still slow after installing Ad-Block, disable Adobe Flash (aka Flash Player aka ShockWave Flash). Most of the time this is what's making your Web-Browsing so slow.

Many sites will work fine without it (since most "mobile" devices can't use Flash). For a few sites you'll need to turn it back on though.

[moi621 (imported)]

Yes to Firefox with AdBlock

Occasionally I use IE to see if a problem is a broser problem

and I am amazed at the garbage Firefox with AdBlock filters for me.

The Moister

[Arab Nights (imported)]

I had the thought to thank you Paolo for the good suggestion. I also did a cookie killer add on. It is amazing. You can be on Yahoo, for example, and the thing flashes endlessly about destructing cookies from this adware and that adware and even Google. My guess is the metrics for measuring online advertising or visits has gotten to the point of pure bullshit.

[Paolo]

Moi is correct.

When Talula first sent me this reconditioned Windows 7 computer (which he had outgrown, and to me, is a top fuel dragster!), I used Internet Explorer ONCE.

I was amazed at how things looked, with all the ads and clutter.

Back to Firefox, and very quickly.

[Losethem (imported)]

And now we know why I switched to Mac. Not a catch-all for ending such things, but it's certainly much easier to deal with since most of the viruses are written for Windows based systems. I still have ad killers and virus scans installed though.

The thing I've had to deal with lately is someone has started spamming the F**K out of my e-mail recently. Since I "own" the server, I have to figure out how to deal with it. It started as 10 messages a day (o.k. just delete/junk 'em) then went to 50 a day the second week and this past week it was over 100 per day. I've had to go to a system of whitelisting those I want to hear from and blacklisting EVERYTHING else. I just went in an whitelisted everyone I've conversed with in the past 2 years, and so far, so good, but if I meet new folks in the future and give them that e-mail I have to be the one to initiate contact. It has an automatic whitelist feature where it assumes I want to send and receive from address I initiate contact with.

Guess it's better than nothing.

--LT