How to stop adverts on email home page?

waterwatereverywhere

Hi

I use hotmail and sometimes AOL and Gmail.

On all of these, especially Hotmail, there are those annoying adverts but recently they've started appearing in larger boxes which cover my email inbox so I can't see the text in the inbox.

Sometimes there is a button to close the ad but often there isn't and you just can't see your email.

Please does anyone know how to stop these adverts from appearing or how to re-organise your screen in some way so that the adverts don't encroach on what you do actually want to see!

Many thx for any tips!

calvin.84

Is the adverts coming while opening inbox?

phoebe03cat

ooh I've just started getting this; driving me mad! Mine come in when opening the inbox..love to stop it!

kwikbreaks

I don't use Hotmail but I imagine that by using FireFox with the Adblock Plus plugin you should be able to block these ads and still retain the main content but you may have to tweak the filtering to do so.

photodgm

I do use hotmail with firefox and Adblock Plus, I haven't got adverts. So this combination seems to be working:)

waterwatereverywhere

Hi,

Many thanks for the replies, yes it is when I open the inbox.

Even now when I click on an email to read it and you can't read half of the email because the ad is plastered on top if it!!

I do use firefox - pls can anyone run me through where/how to add this add blocker plug in and any changes to settings which I need to make?

Many thx in advance.

choccyface

hiya,
click on tools at the top of your page - get add ons - then look on the list for adblock.
hope this helps!

waterwatereverywhere

Fantastic, thank you, I've added the adblock thingammy and that has obliterated the ad so I can actually see and read my emails. Thanks so much to everyone who pointed me in the direction of this.

tronator

waterwatereverywhere wrote: »

Fantastic, thank you, I've added the adblock thingammy and that has obliterated the ad so I can actually see and read my emails. Thanks so much to everyone who pointed me in the direction of this.

Adblock+ is the first thing I install when I setup Firefox on somebody's PC.

HannahIOW

Hi thanks OP for posting this as I have the same problem - however using IE, how would I stop this in internet explorer please?

kwikbreaks

You can play around with the HOSTS file but by far the simplest option is to use FireFox instead or use a different mail provider. The OP mentioned ads in Gmail but even with no adblock turned on the Gmail ones are not intrusive IMO.