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to get annoying ads off my email page and facebook page? - AngeliaClaire - 11-09-2012 12:38 PM
how do I get annoying ads off my yahoo mail and facebook page
- JanetM - 11-09-2012 12:46 PM
you don't. You can pay for Yahoo! Plus and not have advertising, but nothing you can do about Facebook.
- echinopsis . - 11-09-2012 12:46 PM
One of my contacts is from Bangladesh, whenever I checked up on his questions or answers, I always got ads displayed afterwards of some Indian Matrimonial sites - that got me wondering, especially since I am a female silver surfer. Then some time ago Yahoo had technical problems and accidentally placed a script in the box on the YA pages instead of the flash ads normally displayed. That's when I found out that adyield-manager and bluelithium is used to place personalized ads - both use cookies to track your browsing habits, so you may get a different ad displayed than somebody sitting right next to you. That prompted me to look for solutions since I don't like to get spied upon, and I found several good solutions...
Click tools in your top bar -> click "Internet Options" -> click "Security" tab -> click on "Restricted Sites" -> click "Sites", type in the following two sites:
http://ads.bluelithium.com/
http://ad.yieldmanager.com/
That should take care of most of those ads.
Other possibilities...
Download and install the latest Firefox browser:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
Install "adblock plus":
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Result: no more annoying ads! And pages are loading much quicker too...:-)
http://www.admuncher.com/ - this adblocker for the IE (and other browsers) gets highly recommended in several forums.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26171/safari-adblock - for Safari Mac
http://opindian.com/blog/2009/02/25/adblock-solution-for-safari-4-windows-and-mac/ - another solution for Safari 4 Win and Mac.
I for one have the Firefox installed and don't see a single ad on the Yahoo pages...:-)