How can I kill Google Ad Choices?

[Simpo Two]

AdBlocker seems to be powerless and if this crap gpoes on I'll just stop using the forums. I don't want to quit but I am absolutely bloody infuriated with the same bloody adverts spattering everywhere and worse, animated so I can't concentrate. The same adverts even appear within inches of each other FFS

Haymarket, are you really this strapped for cash?


ETA Checking this post I see the SAME advert THREE times. Honestly, you couldn't fking make it up.

[cat with a hat]

You're using the wrong ad blocker.

[tumble dryer]

Adblock plus - it even tells you how many ads it's blocking, and on this page it's three just as you claimed.

[Simpo Two]

I have Adblock Plus. Recently pages such as PH, FB and eBay lost formatting but disabling ABP brought them back. So I cleared out the filter list to start again - but these fking Adchoices ones can't be blocked - you right click but there's no 'block' option...

[darrenw]

uBlock Origin. Haven't seen a single ad on here for years (and I lurk a fair bit).

[Ted2]

Simpo Two said:

I have Adblock Plus. Recently pages such as PH, FB and eBay lost formatting but disabling ABP brought them back. So I cleared out the filter list to start again - but these fking Adchoices ones can't be blocked - you right click but there's no 'block' option...

I use AdBlock (the normal one with the white hand in a red octogon symbol) and uBlock Origin and have a pleasant ad-free experience on all sites using my desktop PC. Try those and report back.

[DAVEVO9]

darrenw said:

uBlock Origin. Haven't seen a single ad on here for years (and I lurk a fair bit).

This.

It is much better than adblock

[Scobblelotcher]

The ultimate ad blocker is pi-hole which requires a raspberry pi or better to run. It’s a small DNS server that lives in your network and sends all ad domains to a black hole. It sits there very quietly and requires no maintenance.

It also can’t be detected by sites watching for ad blockers.

Still with that said I try to allow PH adverts to support their revenue.

[TooMany2cvs]

Simpo Two said:

AdBlocker seems to be powerless ...

ETA Checking this post I see the SAME advert THREE times.

Your adblocker is broken or ste.

<pats ublock origin, fondly>
There are ads on PH? When did that happen?

[Simpo Two]

Thanks guys, I'll try uBlock. Will it run alongside ABP or should I uninstall ABP first?

[bitchstewie]

Simpo Two said:

Thanks guys, I'll try uBlock. Will it run alongside ABP or should I uninstall ABP first?

Personally I just use uBlock Origin and I never see an ad anywhere.

[Simpo Two]

So I got a mortgage with First Direct yesterday, to shut them up, and then a copy of What Car? and a Hotpoint cooker. Now I have to buy a scarf... Haymarket, this is getting expensive, can you send me some cash to cover the cost of your advertising please?

ETA And another copy of What Car? and a camera.

[TooMany2cvs]

Simpo Two said:

Thanks guys, I'll try uBlock. Will it run alongside ABP or should I uninstall ABP first?

No point whatsoever in running two, unless you think your browser's usually too fast.

[Hoofy]

Uninstall Adblock and reinstall it. Something might be borken.

[Simpo Two]

As I use Firefox I thought I'd see if it was available as a plugin, and it was, but I also saw 'AdBlocker for Firefox' and thought I'd try that first. Seems to have worked - and on YouTube etc as well. Currently seeing ABP 1, ABF 5

[Monkeylegend]

Hoofy said:

Uninstall Adblock and reinstall it. Something might be borken.

I seem to have to do this every few weeks when ads suddenly start appearing again.

I am convinced PH are running some anti adblock software

[Simpo Two]

Latest score ABP 1, ABF 10.

Oh, and even 1:6 on the 'reply to topic' page. They're like viruses, a global plague of digital ste. And we're all paying for them in the stuff we buy.

[4x4Tyke]

Follow the instructions here to install a blacklist hosts file.

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

[DaveH23]

Don't recall ever seeing an ad on PH.

[bitchstewie]

uBlock Origin, job done