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Questions tagged [adblock]

Questions about blocking advertisements in browsers.

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How can I block the “Sign in with Google” prompt on websites?

On many websites that require login, those annoying Google login prompts appear: There are several tutorials on the Internet on how to avoid this, for example, this one on How-To Geek, which suggest disabling an option in the Google account.…
jay.sf
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How to block Hot Network Questions in the sidebar of Stack Exchange network?

Operating system is Ubuntu 14. Firefox is 50.1.0 This is what I have tried: I restarted firefox after that. There was no effect. What is the way to block those hot questions on the sidebar?
Aquarius_Girl
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How to prevent my ISP from putting every website in a frame?

My ISP has a bad habit of putting every page I visit into an iframe so they can overlay it with their commercials etc.. (I'm guessing they are using a transparent proxy to do it) Is there an add-on that can remove the frames or block the attempt to…
TimothyP
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Use AdBlock without being detected

Upon visiting a site today I was rewarded with Comic Sans. Behold it's glory: Source Needless to say I can finally understand why so many people loathe this font. However, this does bring up a question. Will websites ever become smart enough to…
MonkeyZeus
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Can a site detect if I use AdBlock in Firefox?

I recently visited (an official) website in search for an episode of a TV-show. The site popped an information dialog stating that I had to disable AdBlock to see the content. Is this at all possible or is it just an educated guess? Does Firefox…
Anders
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How can I block ads in Internet Explorer?

I am looking for an ad blocker which works both in Internet Explorer 9 and all later versions. What options do I have? I would prefer a solution that works without installing any 3rd party DLLs (something similar to Adblock for Chrome).
laktak
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Unblocking at element-level in uBlock Origin

There's one crucial feature from ABP that I haven't found in my (one week of) uBlock0 usage - the “Open blockable items” feature that allows me to allow and disallow at the level of page elements. uBlock0, even after checking the “I’m an advanced…
Sundar R
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Adblock Plus - disabled by default and enable per site

I have Adblock Plus disabled by default at the moment, and I would like to block ads on some sites. Is this possible with Adblock, or do I need another addon?
SPRBRN
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Setting up ad blocking on the router?

Is it possible to block or remove ads (graphical as well as textual like Google text ads) on the level of the router? I have a Cisco Linksys WRT54GL with Tomato Firmware v1.28.1816. Basically I want a functionality as implemented by the AdBlock Lite…
user50105
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Does uBlock Origin make Ghostery redundant?

I have uBlock Origin installed in my browser, as well as AdBlock. Does having uBlock Origin mean there is no point to running Ghostery? Will Ghostery find and suppress any scripts that uBlock Origin does not already detect? (I am using Google…
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How to block all Disqus content with Ublock Origin

I heard that it is possible to use Ublock Origin to block not only ads but also Disqus content on all websites that host it. Disqus is a commenting system that many websites like newspapers add to their webpages. I don't want to see it and I don't…
Angelo
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How do I block ads on startpage.com?

I tried the following, it has no effect: startpage.com##[style*="background-color:#F5F9FF;"] Any idea how to solve this? To reproduce: Go to https://startpage.com/do/search - search for example for adblock. You'll see nasty light blue boxes at the…
user281318
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How to block ads with randomized HTML id attributes?

I use uBlock Origin as my ad blocker. It makes it easy to add custom filters through a picker tool which can identify the HTML id and class attributes of elements. There are some websites which generate a random id for the ad section each time the…
Szabolcs
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Adblock Plus doesn't block Google ads. How to enable?

Recently I've noticed that Adblock Plus doesn't block Google ads anymore. The page is just full of ads. Here's a query for "SSL" with Adblock Plus turned on. I would like to not see Google ads in my browser. How do I get the previous behavior back?…
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Does Adblock slow down Firefox?

You might have heard of the Adblock extension that has a massive list of URL filters to block out adverts from most websites. Does this slow down Firefox, considering that for every little image and flash it has to consult that massive URL…
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