geepondy
Flashlight Enthusiast
I was fooling around with IE8 just for fun but I hate the constant ads. I think the adblock plus does a wonderful job for Firefox, is there anythign equivalent for IE?
Is there a good IE add blocker like Adblock plus for Firefox?
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You might try out the IE7Pro add-on. It's legit and reputable (and works on IE8 too, name notwithstanding).
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If you are using IE, you deserve to be assaulted by ads. :nana:
balou
Enlightened
There's a way to block ads that works with ANY browser, under almost any operating system (windows/mac/linux/bsd/other unices/iphone/os/2/symbian)...
http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/#foursteps
And if you wonder what the hosts file exactly is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/#foursteps
And if you wonder what the hosts file exactly is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
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donn_
Flashaholic
I can't completely avoid it (almost, though). There are still websites which do not function correctly with FireFox. New York's state website, where I file quarterly taxes, register boats and vehicles, and do other state business, is an example.
IE is also (still) the only Windows browser built for central manageability. Pre-customize it, deploy it, configure it, enforce settings (despite your employees' attempts to sabotage them), pre-set preferences, update it, audit it, remove it... on a thousand computers at once. Or ten thousand. From your desk, while browsing CPF 
The competitors are now ~10 years late to the starting line in manageability. It would be cool if there were some actual competition, but there really isn't yet.
A couple telling remarks from sysadmins:
Remember folks, not everyone is a home user with just one or two computers and cooperative users :tinfoil:
The competitors are now ~10 years late to the starting line in manageability. It would be cool if there were some actual competition, but there really isn't yet.
A couple telling remarks from sysadmins:
Remember folks, not everyone is a home user with just one or two computers and cooperative users :tinfoil:
geepondy
Flashlight Enthusiast
I installed it but I'm not so sure it's working for IE8. I'm not getting the little symbol in the lower right hand screen that it says I should.
True. Forgot about those scenarios. I'll just issue my condolences to them all. I have had to use IE once for some obscure website in the last year.
I get a kick out of seeing all the ongoing posts where people have to manually remove a side bracket, or insert spaces with the [ QUOTE] brackets here, or their post won't work. It means they are stuck using the lame IE.
I haven't experienced those problems on any version of IE that I've used here. I do frequently forget that I'm not on a FuseTalk board, and use FT-style tags, but that's my own fault
D'oh!At any rate, use what you like, and keep it up-to-date
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AlexGT
Flashlight Enthusiast
Maybe try to add the hosts file from spywareblaster to your blocked sites in the registry and the hosts file from spybot search and destroy.
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Kenom
Enlightened
Ya know I am sick of seeing biased people making statements like this about IE. I HATE FF and won't install it on my system because of the changes it makes to my system that totally mess up the way I do things on my computer. Why should I have to change the way I do things to use FF? No program is perfect. All programs have drawbacks and flaws. Because I choose to use IE, does not mean I deserve your scorn. I've not seen how FF is superior with the single exception of it loading pages faster. OOOooo. in a world of high speed internet connections where all pages load fast, 1 nano second longer just doesn't mean squat.
I will forever use IE!
You feel scorn from a forum post? WoW! :mecry: Hey, knock yourself out using I.E.
I'm not going to do the research of pro's and con's of the browser wars for you. However, apparently I.E. 8 is much better than I.E. 7.
The free plugins available for customizing FF make it a no brainer for most of us using it, and I'm just responding to the OP's question. Is there a good IE ad blocker? Huh? Is there? :tinfoil:
daimleramg
Banned
Try... tools>internet options>privacy>check 2 boxes in the inprivate section then restart ie.
That should take care of ads that hijack your page.
That should take care of ads that hijack your page.
