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how do i get yahoo to stop facebook popup ads? - CowPunk - 11-09-2012 11:29 AM
- DrDave - 11-09-2012 11:37 AM
Easy enough. Buy out Yahoo and change it.
- Ryan - 11-09-2012 11:37 AM
If you're using Mozilla Firefox (or Google Chrome, I think), an add-on called "Adblock Plus" gets rid of nearly all ads.
And if there are any left, just right click the ad and block it.
- David - 11-09-2012 11:37 AM
I'm having the same problem. I have Adblock Plus 1.3.9, but it doesn't stop the popup, just grays out the text in the popup, and the screen is still taken over by the popup. I've heard noscript will block it, but that has other costs. It would be great if ADP would catch it, or better, someone at yahoo/facebook would realize how intrusive this is.
I thought of just agreeing to the facebook ad terms, but I don't want what it offers.
I would simply stop using my.yahoo and go to another newsreader, but my email is through yahoo and I like it on one page. That will have to change soon.
So, at present it is a regular annoyance that serves no constructive purpose. It's ironic that yahoo mail blocks spam, and then yahoo.com spams you right back, in a worse way.
- Rodney M - 11-09-2012 11:37 AM
I guess I'm going to stop using Yahoo for my homepage. It's annoying to say the least and much worse the ad goes off to the right of my internet explorer window so I have to make the window larger or scroll to to close it down. Screw you Yahoo I say. You just gave us one more reason to leave your site.
You should maybe spend your time making sure your site links to valid stories as a few times a week the link to read the whole story doesn't work either.