MSN Homepage adds

ps2659

Hi looking for some help I use the MSN homepage and I want to stop the adds that keep appearing the latest one is the full length of my laptop and about 75mm down, every time it gives me the option to (hide ad) then once I come to the homepage its appears again with flashing lights and so on most distracting hope some one can help.
Thank you

AndyPix

Download firefox and use that with the ad blocker add on ..

Your internet experience will improve ten fold and you will never look back

Hope this helps

Andy

Anne_Marie_2

What browser are you using OP?

Not knocking Andypix or Firefox here, but some folk just like to use the browser that they are familiar with, so need an adblocker for that particular browser. Adblock Plus is available for various formats and is pretty good, as is Adblock.

If the OP gives us the browser that they use, then we can give them suitable links.

ps2659

Anne_Marie wrote: »

What browser are you using OP?

Not knocking Andypix or Firefox here, but some folk just like to use the browser that they are familiar with, so need an adblocker for that particular browser. Adblock Plus is available for various formats and is pretty good, as is Adblock.

If the OP gives us the browser that they use, then we can give them suitable links.

MSN UK Outlook ?

mickburkejnr

Hi OP,

I'm going to guess you're using Internet Explorer, and probably on an older version of Windows like Windows XP?

The problem you have is Internet Explorer. IE now is a good browser, but on XP you can only get up to IE 8 and that isn't supported any more. It leaves you open to nasty things on the internet etc. You can check this by clicking Help on the toolbar, then About. If it's Internet Explorer, please go to https://www.firefox.com or https://www.google.com/chrome and download one of them for your own safety online.

After this, and I hope you use Firefox, you have more freedom as to what you can do to stop these popup's. I myself use Firefox, and I use something called uBlock. uBlock is free and is a great alternative to AdBlock, as companies sometimes pay AdBlock to let the odd advert through. uBlock is a "community" effort, open source etc, so can't be bought in that sense.

ps2659

mickburkejnr wrote: »

Hi OP,

I'm going to guess you're using Internet Explorer, and probably on an older version of Windows like Windows XP?

The problem you have is Internet Explorer. IE now is a good browser, but on XP you can only get up to IE 8 and that isn't supported any more. It leaves you open to nasty things on the internet etc. You can check this by clicking Help on the toolbar, then About. If it's Internet Explorer, please go to www.firefox.com or www.google.com/chrome and download one of them for your own safety online.

After this, and I hope you use Firefox, you have more freedom as to what you can do to stop these popup's. I myself use Firefox, and I use something called uBlock. uBlock is free and is a great alternative to AdBlock, as companies sometimes pay AdBlock to let the odd advert through. uBlock is a "community" effort, open source etc, so can't be bought in that sense.

Thanks for the reply it is IE 11 windows 7 hope this info is any good

tavernman

I would suggest another browser as above plus an adblocker, and a script blocker, but then I can't understand why people use MSN or other such "portals" as home pages, but that is probably just me.

ps2659

mickburkejnr wrote: »

Hi OP,

I'm going to guess you're using Internet Explorer, and probably on an older version of Windows like Windows XP?

The problem you have is Internet Explorer. IE now is a good browser, but on XP you can only get up to IE 8 and that isn't supported any more. It leaves you open to nasty things on the internet etc. You can check this by clicking Help on the toolbar, then About. If it's Internet Explorer, please go to www.firefox.com or www.google.com/chrome and download one of them for your own safety online.

After this, and I hope you use Firefox, you have more freedom as to what you can do to stop these popup's. I myself use Firefox, and I use something called uBlock. uBlock is free and is a great alternative to AdBlock, as companies sometimes pay AdBlock to let the odd advert through. uBlock is a "community" effort, open source etc, so can't be bought in that sense.

Hi again I have downloaded firefox as you recommended can you post a link to uBlock to help me thanks again.

tavernman

ps2659 wrote: »

Hi again I have downloaded firefox as you recommended can you post a link to uBlock to help me thanks again.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock/
read it here, but not much in reviews, adblockplus is fine
see here https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

tronator

mickburkejnr wrote: »

uBlock is free and is a great alternative to AdBlock, as companies sometimes pay AdBlock to let the odd advert through. uBlock is a "community" effort, open source etc, so can't be bought in that sense.

That's not entirely true and can be disabled in the settings too

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

ps2659

Hi and thanks to all that helped, the ads have now stopped I used adblock and its OK now. I have another problem in that I uninstalled firefox yesterday and re installed it, now when I click to open firefox I get some EE page to sign in for emails I have not been with EE for over 3 years can anyone help with this one.
Once again thanks to all for the help yesterday.