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How to Hide Annoying Ads on Websites

# Filed on Apr 3, 2013 by AnthonyDiSante / reply

Some websites display really obnoxious stuff: moving/flashing images, auto-playing videos, etc.  These are usually advertisements, and on many websites they’ve gotten so bad that it’s impossible to concentrate on reading the actual content on the page.

You can cut down on 90% of this stuff by installing two add-ons/extensions in your web browser: one is a Flash blocker (since many ads are created with Flash), and the other is an ad blocker.  Just go into your browser’s settings and look for the Add-Ons or Extensions section, then search for Flash block or ad block.  (Most Flash blockers allow you to still view Flash content that you actually want to view: they simply replace each Flash element with a place-holder, which you can click on if you want to run the Flash behind it.)

But there’s another option, for one-off situations, or deleting things that aren’t necessarily ads, or aren’t Flash.  In browsers like Google Chrome (or Firefox with the FireBug add-on), you can simply right-click on any part of any web page, choose Inspect, and then hit the Delete key on your keyboard.  Problem solved!

I like the latter approach because I know some websites depend on revenue from advertising, so I don’t necessarily want to block all ads.  However, when a website decides to run ads that are obnoxious, then they’ve crossed the line, and I have no qualms about blocking ads on such sites.

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