I was working on someone else’s computer today when I saw an ad on the internet (and it was offensive). I suggested a course of action to resolve this problem, and it made me think that others might benefit from this short lesson. Do not do this if you like advertisements that flash in your face, show immodestly dressed women, or promise that you are a winner.<\/p>\n
Step one: download and install Firefox<\/a>. This is free and henceforth you will use it instead of MS Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n Step two: install Adblock<\/a>.<\/p>\n Step three: \u00a0 if it comes up with a screen about a subscription check the dot on the top one (it is the one labeled easy something, it is the one for English web sites). If it does not come up then go to this web site to subscribe to the subscription: http:\/\/adblockplus.org\/en\/subscriptions<\/a><\/p>\n That’s it. It is amazing how wonderful it is to browse the web without that garbage being shoved in your face. Actually, you’ll forget all about it…until you use someone else’s computer.<\/p>\n UPDATE (8\/24\/07): I updated some instructions and links that a friend noted were outdated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was working on someone else’s computer today when I saw an ad on the internet (and it was offensive). I suggested a course of action to resolve this problem, and it made me think that others might benefit from this short lesson. Do not do this if you like advertisements that flash in your\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}