Way to stop "Content Adviser" Pop ups?

[(Shovel)]

I don't usually block ads. But being in a family environement, EMAPs decision to put FHM porno ads on the Q message board didn't go down to well.
So, I added the Adserver address to content advisers blocked URLs list and presto, no more ads. And the page loaded quicker too - nice bonus.
However, it insists on popping up a "Content Adviser has blocked this URL" box every time. Pressing Enter on every page is bearable, but only just.

Is there a registry setting to stop it doing this? Or can you recommend a better way of blocking offensive ads?

Cheers

PS The Registry in question is NT (XP). And it's IE 6.

 

[xane]

There are several popup blockers around, many of them free.

Also you can use CookieCop or something similar to block ad sites permanently, the popups still arrive but the image is blocked.

 

[Daffeh]

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[Nibbler]

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[Daffeh]

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[Summo]

Wow! ASCII art!

 

[Daffeh]

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*ahem*

 

[Nibbler]

Gary Colenibbler?

 

[MYstIC G]

hosts file

edit it so all ad url's point to 127.0.0.1, requires no software and you just get a "can't load" red x, or a "this page cannot be found" just as ugly but you can copy a hosts file to multiple boxes really quickly

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Use Mozilla...

Unlike IE, which is partially funded by advertising groups, it has good options for disabling specific javascript functions, and blocking cookies.

I have popups disabled, along with a few other window related things(moving, resizing, changing emphasis), and i also have status bar text disabled

 

[caLLous]

I use @guard, a good firewall with a built-in adblocker.

 

[MYstIC G]

Originally posted by ShockingAlberto
Use Mozilla...

Unlike IE, which is partially funded by advertising groups, it has good options for disabling specific javascript functions, and blocking cookies.

I have popups disabled, along with a few other window related things(moving, resizing, changing emphasis), and i also have status bar text disabled

Unfortunatly you're then left with having a crap browser cos Mozilla is to W3C standards strict

 

[old.Kez]

Its a crap browser because it adheres well to standards and doesn't fluff things up like Microsoft & Netscape's outings?

Sincerely yours,
Logic.

 

[MYstIC G]

Logic dictates that the ability to specify "height" makes sense on items where you can specify "width"

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I haven't a clue what you're on about G, but Mozilla has allways displayed pages excellently for me.

Anyway, i rest my case that Mozilla is more configurable. No html emails? Ty. No JS popups? Ta.

 

[PR.]

IE might not stick to these standards but I've never been to a site and been told that IE might not work...

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Well, one day you'll go to a netscape only site... and... then... you will have been to a site and been told your browser might not work

 

[xenon2000]

Originally posted by ShockingAlberto
Well, one day you'll go to a netscape only site...

Let me put it simply: No he won't!

 

[bigbb]

How true, Xen.

I've never had a problem with IE, I just find people using Netscape either just like the general feel of it, aesethically more than they do IE or they just want to be different. Has little to do with "How it displays the page", imo.

 

[PR.]

It there two finger salute to Microsoft, personally I'll stick with compatibility

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Mozilla is compatible. It's not as compatable with certain sites written for IE, however if everyone sued NS, it'd be the other way round.

You're not gonna like this peeps, but i put it that the only reason you're using IE now, is because it came with your computer

NS/Mozilla does render pages differantly to IE, mainly smaller, and not as wide. People get used to using IE because it coms with their computer, when they try out alternatives, they render pages differantly, so they're instantly put off. Use NS for a week or 2, and you'll find IE looks weird.

I booted to Windows in january i think, and i looked at a readme file with IE, and it looked awful... Simply because i've been using Mozilla for so long now.

 

[PR.]

Nah I use IE because

• Its a smaller foot print instead of having to web browsers installed
• It keeps with the Windows UI unlike nutscrape
• It 100% compatible with 98% of all web pages on the net
• I haven't seen a crash from it since Win2k with IE5.5
• And yes it comes with windows but if the competition was the same as it is now and IE wasn't built in I would grab a copy immediately

 

[old.Kez]

Originally posted by PR
IE might not stick to these standards but I've never been to a site and been told that IE might not work...

Thats market penetration by Microsoft's embedding of IE. The only reason sites are designed with IE in mind is because sadly, everyone* uses it. So code practice doesn't come into it.

*By everybody, I mean the majority that matter.

 

[Sar]

But Nutscrape renders HTML tables just so darned well.



I use IE (v6) cos it's the best browser out there.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Exactly.
Anyway, to answere your points on why you use IE:
Its a smaller foot print instead of having to web browsers installed
Do you mean diskspace, or mem? Yes, it means more diskspace, but then again, if IE wasn't there, then it would be normal. If you mean mem, well IE caches itself in your ram on boot. Whether it digs itself in perminently, i'm not sure, but that would mean less ram available for gaming etc.

It keeps with the Windows UI unlike nutscrape
Yes, but with NS, you have a choice of themes. You can make it look however you want. Yes, it isn't the same as the Windows UI, but it's dam similar. Can you change themes in IE?

It 100% compatible with 98% of all web pages on the net
What Kes said. If IE wasn't bundled with Windows, only a small fraction of people would use it, hence sites would stick to the W3C standards.
I haven't seen a crash from it since Win2k with IE5.5
And? Mozilla is supposedly crashy, yet i haven't experianced any more than one crash a month or so. Just because you don't get crashes, doesn't mean others don't.

And yes it comes with windows but if the competition was the same as it is now and IE wasn't built in I would grab a copy immediately
So you consider it to be a superior browser to NS/Mozilla/Opera/Lynxp)?
What i am saying is that people who try other browsers don't switch tot hem because they don't like the way pages are rendered. When i stopped using IE, i found it uncomfortable, and in the past i'd allways found NS hard. Now, after being fully-Mozillarised, IE is ghastly. I've literally seen IE about twice in the last 4 months, and on both occasions it seemed weird and clunky, the more recent time being the most uncormfortable. My point is that people like what they're used to. If new PC users ddn't have a shortcut to IE, but they had a large NS icon, they'd be using NS, and they'd find IE weird a month or so later.

Hmm...
*Mozilla/NS/Opera 1 - 0 IE

 

[PR.]

I'll reply to this later

I got work now

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Cat got your tongue?

 

[xane]

Originally posted by ShockingAlberto
Cat got your tongue?

One finds it is more customary in these modern times to simply say "0wned"

 

[PR.]

doh

IE6 0wns

Can't be arsed to say more...

/me is non-confrontational