actually, you might want to also use the more powerful ghostery (i know
it works on firefox). i have been using it for years. it blocks all
kinds of neat stuff. even more than just adblock (i use it as well)
which gets rid of your ads. ghostery gets rid of things like google
analytics. if you see a website does not perform properly or you no
longer have access to it, you can turn the things ghostery has turned
off back on one by one until you find the thing that will make the
website work again and leave everything else off.
73...bruce
On 4/14/2016 9:28 AM, Bill Crowell, N4HPG via BVARC wrote:
All,
Recently, I was shopping on Amazon for some N bulkhead connectors.
Going other places on the web such as Fox News, ads kept popping up
trying to sell me N connectors! Everywhere I went were N connectors.
And NO, it wasn’t God telling me that we should do away with PL-259s
<grin>.
Every day we are tracked and monitored by commercial entities on the
web. They have a profile of each of us and they sell this information
for profit. Besides this, all of the tracking systems slow down the
browsing experience because they use bandwidth.
We can drastically reduce tracking systems using 2 browser plugins:
AdBlock. This blocks most adware. Pandora will complain as will other
sites, but many sites with adware also have viruses for free download.
You can turn it off if you need to on a site-by-site basis.
Disconnect.Me - (www.disconnect.me <http://www.disconnect.me>) This
blocks trackers. It’s donation ware and I’m going to donate a bit to
them for the free version.
As I write this, in my browser’s window I have Pandora playing. At
this moment 41 ads have been blocked and 31 trackers.
Sometimes I go to a site where I get a “canvas” warning. This is when
the site is monitoring where your mouse moves on the screen!
Like turning on the filter for CW, the noise is reduced!
Pass it on.
73!
Bill Crowell, N4HPG
Pearland, TX
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
I prefer to live a life of galvanic isolation.
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