Re: Is There A Thread On Here, Showing How To Get Rid Of Pop-Ups?
Hi Art
I've posted about this many times. It's personal choice but . . .
For security peace of mind and to prevent pop ups and advertising windows and banners appearing just DISABLE JAVASCRIPT in your browser whatever you use. It will be in the settings somewhere, Google it if need be.
Disabling Javascript will make webpages load about 10 times faster then they currently do and there will be absolutely no pop ups or annoying adverts. You won't even get the popups and banners you see on every single website asking you to give consent for using Cookies nor any GDPR crap.
The downside is that some of the functionality of the webpage may not work because it needed JavaScript to do so. The odd button and so on but by and large I find that it's no problem.
Whenever you do need such functionality you just go back into browser settings, re-enable JavaScript temporarily to do what you need to do, and then disable it again afterwards. Simple. It becomes second nature pretty quickly.
I don't use Adblocker, there is absolutely no need to when you disable JavaScript.
Just abut every webpage you visit runs program scripts the minute you visit it. All happens whilst the page is loading which is what causes delays. Those scripts do all sorts of things like run pop ups and adverts or to gather stuff from your PC to track you and so on. Really you don't want any of that BS so that's why I choose to disable JavaScript. It essentially kills the ability of the hackers and advert merchants in one fell swoop.