ad's on web pages

maleman

you need to go to the network advertising initiative site here :-http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

and select the opt out option for lots of different advertising sites, takes seconds. it then stops 99% of the ads.

At least if companies send a salesman around you can give them a black eye!

Dave_C_2

I use Firefox and adblock plus, together with flashblock.
In tools>options>privacy I have ticked accept cookies, unticked third party cookies (which everyone should do) and selected keep until I close firefox.

The only downside is that I have to manually allow some sites (Bank, MSE and so on) under exceptions so that the "safe" sites can use cookies to remember what I've seen, my customer number etc. Ccleaner is set not to delete firefox cookies.

This eliminates the vast majority of ads and tracking from my system.
LSOs are another story.

Dave