The 'Net is my market, I shall not want...

[thanate]

I keep opening the lj entries of people with ad-sponsored accounts and getting huge pop-up things that gray out the page you're looking at and won't allow you to close them until they've fully loaded. Has anyone else been having trouble with this? There are a few things I haven't commented on because I closed the window rather than deal with waiting ten seconds for an ad I didn't want to see to load.

(I'm particularly wondering if those of you with paid accounts get exempted from this, as every so often I contemplate upgrading... on the one hand, I like my basic account; it has everything I need, and I won't be able to get it back if I change my mind, but on the other I do use this an awful lot, and possibly it would be the thing to pay for my web hosting, so to speak.)

Comments

[scraun23.livejournal.com]

http://adblockplus.org/

I wasn't even aware the ad policy on lj had gotten worse until now.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

So basically you're saying I need to migrate to Firefox to solve the problem?

[grauwulf.livejournal.com]

I can write that same script into safari for you. Don't know why I didn't think of that. Good call scraun23

[scraun23.livejournal.com]

there are a few things already out there that do this. I don't use Safari, so I don't know if they are any good, but...

http://burgersoftware.com/en/safariadblock

[grauwulf.livejournal.com]

I was just going to load up grease monkey and start hacking :) this whole "downloading software" thing just sounds like it's too easy. I don't trust it :-P