How do you take advertising off your computer ?

-I'm so tired of seeing advertising even when I use my yahoo homepage. And it takes up

the whole screen !!

Isnt there a way to stop it ??Browser 'pop-up blockers' are lightweight, paper thin defenses and advertisers (legit & malware purveyors) know how to get by those very easily. Users must boost their own defenses these days.

Get Firefox as your default browser & use it for everyday surfing; fall back to iE only for "last resort" viewing of substandard websites & Windows updates.

The following tips help, but methods (vectors) constantly change.

FIREFOX: Tools> Options> Privacy> top drop menu set to "Firefox will use custom settings..."> Check 'Accept Cookies from sites'

鈻篣n-Check 'Accept 3rd Party cookies'.



A good collection of effective add-on's (Official Mozilla) is here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/collections/d鈥?/a>

"AdBlock Plus" & "Better Privacy" also help defray rubbish.

鈻衡柡 At minimum, get the #1 item for malware prevention: NoScript, which constrains automagically fetching & deployment of tainted assets.

[see this page for how it works, and how to use it...very simple; http://noscript.net/features#contentbloc鈥?/a>



CHROME> wrench icon> Preferences> Under the hood> Content settings> Cookies (heading): tick "Allow local data..." & "Ignore exceptions and block 3rd party..."> close tab.

AdBlock plus available. See Add-on's for Chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/searc鈥?/a>

"NotScript" performs well also, but is a bit of a bugger to configure.

http://www.ghacks.net/2010/08/18/notscri鈥?/a>



INTERNET EXPLORER does not handle 3rd party assets very well (or anything else) and won't give nearly the control as Firefox or Chrome: it is garbage. Use at your own risk.
That's how Yahoo is. Unless you invest in a good ad blocker, they will continue to bother you.

That's why I want nothing to do with Yahoo. They don't care about you, only the money they make.