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[heystasa]

Hey, peeps who know more about technical internet dohickeys than me,

I'm starting to get pretty frigging sick of these weight-loss ads on LJ. They're everywhere, despite the fact that nothing on my ad customisation page even remotely relates what they're selling in any way. What's the go with these ad blocker aps and are there any that are good for Internet Explorer?


ETA: You know what? Fuck you, LJ. I'm a girl, and young, so obviously I must be completely insecure with my body, stupid, and desperate, and thus deeply interested in weight loss ads. Fuck. You. Never mind that I kindly did tick several boxes about the types of ads I would NOT object to seeing back when I first joined, and none of them have anything to do with health or even fashion or anything else that can be tangentially related to body image. I was annoyed enough when it was just unappealing photos showing up over and over again.* FUCK. YOU.


*When I first saw the ads, I actually thought, oh cool, they didn't photoshop her stretchmarks or anything, which I still like, but I just don't want to see dank photos of mid drifts or people in undies all the damn time, okay? 


ETA 2: Just tried switching my gender setting from female to unspecified, and they're still there. So, LJ, I retract my feminist rage a little, I guess, but not my fuck you.
 

Comments

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

I use Proxomitron. It's pretty good. You might have to customise the filters though a little bit so that it doesn't filter EVERYTHING out. But yeah. Proxomitron. Tick.

[sjazzmreow.livejournal.com]

Thankyou! I will check it out immediantly!

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

AND THIS IS WHY I LOCKED DOWN MY ACCOUNT AND INTERACT WITH IT THROUGH DREAMWIDTH.

Or, for convenience sake, install AdBlock Plus in your Firefox. It kills 'em.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see, you said Internet Explorer. WOT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT PROGRAM ANYWAY?

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

ICON WIN.

[sjazzmreow.livejournal.com]

I DON'T KNOW, OKAY. IT COMES WITH THE COMPUTERS. STOP JUDGING ME.

Although you probably have a point and I've been meaning to check out Firefox for some other features anyway, so.

[sjazzmreow.livejournal.com]

I remember, but at the time I only saw the same one from time to time and it didn't faze me. But I swear they've gotten new pictures since AND THEY ARE ALL TERRIBLE AND FLESHY AND NOW IT'S PEOPLE IN UNDIES AND THEY ARE ON EVERY. FREAKING. PAGE. AND I DID NOT TICK THAT BOX AAARRRRRRRRGH.

Bastards.

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

Just stopping by in my little grab of internet to yell at you, very politely:


GET FIREFOX WITH ADBLOCK PLUS. NO ADS EVER. WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN.


Right, and off I go again.

[sjazzmreow.livejournal.com]

I deeply appreciate your stopping in during your unfortunate period of non interwebs, and should like to reply to your kind advice thus:

XDDD OKAY OKAY YOU'VE CONVINCED ME.

[3771.livejournal.com]

i use ... privoxy, that's it. with no restrictions. this should be regarded as a nuclear option, since it also requires forcing your way through to nearly any webpage with "ad" or "advertising" in the url, like this one (http://www.facebook.com/advertising/?src=pf).

[3771.livejournal.com]

use firefox with adblock plus if you can, though. way more efficient.

[sjazzmreow.livejournal.com]

Thanks! By the looks of things, Firefox is the way to go. (Even though I have my browser all how I want it and I DON'T LIKE CHANGE WAAAAAAAH)