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Title: best free ad blocking software?
Post by: Varche on 13 August 2015, 16:24:29
I have decided that unwanted videos playing on websites I visit are gobbling up my limited monthly bandwidth. Had to buy 1Gb extra this month for £10!!

What do the gurus recommend please?

Been looking at Google Adblocker or adblock plus. A consideration is how much processor speed the adblocker will gobble up I guess.
Title: Re: best free ad blocking software?
Post by: Steve B on 13 August 2015, 16:36:25
I use Adblock Plus For firefox. One of the admin once mentioned it  :y

https://adblockplus.org/

It does do what it says on the vid  :y
Title: Re: best free ad blocking software?
Post by: PhilRich on 13 August 2015, 16:40:43
Adguard adblocker uses around half the resources of Adblock plus :y
Title: Re: best free ad blocking software?
Post by: omega2018 on 13 August 2015, 17:00:12
why not make flash run only on demand see http://www.androidcentral.com/chrome-disable-flash (http://www.androidcentral.com/chrome-disable-flash) other browsers similar.  then whenever there is a flash video you have to right mouse click for it to play
Title: Re: best free ad blocking software?
Post by: Kevin Wood on 13 August 2015, 17:02:20
Might also be worth getting something like NoScript, as that will allow you to disable all active content on sites unless you explicitly enable it. It's not just advertisements that launch all sorts of unwanted junk these days.

All assuming you use Firefox, of course.
Title: Re: best free ad blocking software?
Post by: Varche on 13 August 2015, 17:41:30
Yes we use Firefox.

I will have a look at those suggestions. Amazing what is out there. Thanks. :y
Title: Re: best free ad blocking software?
Post by: omega2018 on 13 August 2015, 18:16:42
easy to disable flash in firefox http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/why-do-i-have-click-activate-plugins?as=u&utm_source=inproduct (http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/why-do-i-have-click-activate-plugins?as=u&utm_source=inproduct) if you want to go to extremes eg working on very low bandwidth you can diable images too - then just a placeholder appears for each image and you have to click it to see the image.
Title: Re: best free ad blocking software?
Post by: Kate on 17 August 2015, 20:35:24
Does anyone know how to block adverts on catch-up tv? It drives me mad. >:(