Ad Blocker.

pollyanna_26

I am a very basic internet user who came late to the internet. My prevoius laptop needed replacing so I recently bought this one. Old one had a very effective Ad blocker someone installed for me but I can't remember which one it was.

I tend to just go on the forums , follow news etc search things online and use emails.

I am being inundated with ads from my local news site and other sites I visit daily.

I would appreciate any recommendations for a simple ad blocker.

polly

Carrot007

I would always choose

uBlock Origin

Over anything else.

Think it works in most browsers these days!

matelodave

That's what I've got and it seems to do what it says on the tin.

J_B

Me too

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pollyanna_26

Thank you all. Seems you're all united on that one. I will take a look.

Take care all

polly

getmore4less

If you still have the old one and can get it to boot you can probably work out what was installed.

Jenni_D

Which web browser are you using? All of them except probably Internet Explorer (which still exists but is deprecated) will let you install extension/add-ons. uBlock Origin is probably the favoured ad-blocker. (The favourite used to be Adblock Plus until something happened with it - I don't recall the specifics but remember it along the lines of the extension did as much spying on you as what it was trying to block).

MattMattMattUK

pollyanna_26 said:

I am a very basic internet user who came late to the internet. My prevoius laptop needed replacing so I recently bought this one. Old one had a very effective Ad blocker someone installed for me but I can't remember which one it was.

I tend to just go on the forums , follow news etc search things online and use emails.

I am being inundated with ads from my local news site and other sites I visit daily.

I would appreciate any recommendations for a simple ad blocker.

polly

When you say "inundated with ads", what exactly to you mean? Are these just the standard in page adverts, are you being emailed spam, do you have popups of some description? 

As others have asked, what browser are you using. 

pollyanna_26

Sorry for not getting back. I'm not very knowlegable about things re internet. if Firefox is a browser that's what I'm on. My usual techie friend who usually sorts these issues has been ill so I didn't like to bother her.

I'm very careful re sites I visit. The ads come from our local news feed and a regional one which was a newspaper and now online. Some pages are littered with ads or ads will pop up while I'm reading.

I've done the cookie setting thing on them all rejecting everything except essentiial cookies. I've never signed up to their websites.

pollyx

pollyanna_26

Just noticed an earlier reply. The former laptop a fairly new one took a tumble down the stairs  when I dropped it. That's no longer here but I survived the fall.

pollyx

[Deleted User]

Hi,]

did you try the previous suggestion for uBlock Origin?

If not, it's easy to install, even for a non techie.

As you're on Firefox, click on Tools, should be along top left of your screen, click settings, scroll down to Extensions & Themes and click, in the  Find more add-ons box, type uBlock Origin then search, now click on uBlock Origin then click Install, job done,