Is it possible to block pop-up ads and videos on websites?

[Michael Miramontes]

It seems like no matter what webpage I visit these days I have to click out of an annoying pop up ad or video that automatically starts streaming. I normally browse in Safari and have pop-ups blocked. Just wondering if there's a better way of blocking all the commercials. 

 

Any info is appreciated. 

 

[Marc Wielage]

I know you can in Chrome -- what pops up is a blank page because I've turned autoplay off. What you can't block completely are pop up ads that are embedded in the actual page. You can at least stop the video from playing.

[Ferdinand Almalvez]

i use a Chrome plug in called Adblock, works great.

[RadoStefanov]

Just get White Hat Aviator.

Google is trying to kill it....

 

[OmahaAudio]

There's an extension called Adblock Plus for Firefox and Safari.

[pindrop]

There's an extension called Adblock Plus for Firefox and Safari.

Top tip thank you very much......:)

[Michael Miramontes]

Thanks everyone for the info. I'll give those a try. 

[Gerard-NYNY]

there are a bunch of ad blockers, flash video blockers, facebook ad blockers, gmail ad blockers for firefox. adblock plus didnt do everything, so you might want to overdo it with tools and then see what works better.

i really like the tool that makes website cookies self destruct when you close the tab.

you can disable it for pages you need to keep cookies for.

 

[Rick Reineke]

I use Firefox w/ Adblock Plus and  Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon  extension plugs. (The latter has options to allow pop-ups on certain websites or pages.

I also use the Shockwave Flash player plug-in set to, "Ask to Activate" which gives the options  'Allow Now' or 'Allow and Remember' when applicable. Though this can be a PITA sometimes. The setting is easy to enable/disable though.

[pindrop]

i really like the tool that makes website cookies self destruct when you close the tab.

you can disable it for pages you need to keep cookies for.

 

Which one is that please?

[Michael Miramontes]

I downloaded adblock plus and so far it seems to be working well. 

[Gerard-NYNY]

Which one is that please?

self destructing cookies

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/

works great, and no pukey aftertaste.

[John Edwards]

I was just going to say use that mozilla plugin. Safari also does have an option too

 

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203987

[Rick Reineke]

"I was just going to say use that mozilla plugin"

- Same here. Addons for Mozilla Firefox: 'Adblock Plus' and 'Adblock Plus Pop-up Blocker' .

[Gerard-NYNY]

Use the Ghostery add on with mozilla firefox to block tracking cookies. works great. don't stalk me bro!!

[geordi]

There are ads on the internet?

Using my computer, you'd never know.

I use Chrome browser, with Ublock Origin and Adblock, and a whole collection of custom rules that I have been tweaking for over 10 years of using adblockers and script stoppers. Let me see if I can paste my custom rule file into the forum here, and you can just copy/paste into your settings.

 

Edit: I can actually export them, so here you go - Ublock Origin custom rules. Then select the list subscriptions to get most of the rules, and these lists are very good - 99% of nonsense is stopped right out with them

 

my-ublock-static-filters_2-13-2016,_12-40-36_AM.txt

my-ublock-dynamic-rules_2-13-2016,_12-40-19_AM.txt

[Michael Miramontes]

Awesome bro! Thanks.