Is this board now advert free?

[The Fence End]

Just noticed that all the adverts for the past few hours have been replaced by a proboards logo - has someone paid to remove the ads?

[eaststandboy]

Not me, i can see proboard adverts only.

[malcolmnl]

I have never seen ads on this board because I use Firefox with the add-on Ghostery. This blocks ads from all sites except the originating one. It also, and this is more important, it blocks scripts that report your activities to the sites that gather your surf style information.

A very good add-on that also speeds up surfing as you dont have to wait for ads coming from 3rd party sites. It works for Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. go to www.ghostery.com/ for more info.

ps I have never seen any adds on Yellows board. Maybe Ghostery has stopped them too. Anyway I really can recommend it (no I have no financial interest in Ghostery).

[Oxo]

Thank you Malcolm!!!!! I have just installed the Ghostery add-on to Firefox and it works great! I now see no adverts on this forum or on any other web page, which is brilliant.

Thanks again.

[foghornleghorn]

Oct 3, 2010 8:48:08 GMT Oxo said:

Thank you Malcolm!!!!! I have just installed the Ghostery add-on to Firefox and it works great! I now see no adverts on this forum or on any other web page, which is brilliant.

Thanks again.

Using adblockers on firefox you should also notice a significant speed increase on most websites. Adblockers work a different way on chrome, so no such luck for me

[North West Ox]

Malcolm, thanks for the Ghostery tip.
I've had two virus in the last couple of months which both came through by accidently clicking the ad's on this forum.
I've just got rid of the 'HDD Rescue' malware thanks to Malwarebytes and Avira Antivir.