Desperate To Disable Pop-Ups From My Screen.

[Paigntonian]

followed Chrome/Windows advice but getting nowhere. Help much appreciated.

[alavahalf]

It's very simple.. I haven't seen a pop up for about 3 years.. Install the Brave Browser or Slimjet.

Promise.. you will be smiling within 10 minutes, thinking why has nobody told me about this before?

[dannyk13]

From Site Rules.
• Any instances of members recommending other members to download an AdBlock for use on The AnswerBank will be removed.

[Paigntonian]

Thanks guys. Sorry to be so thick but I've downloaded Brave. Do I now go into Chrome in my usual way or do I use a different method to access websites?

[Jackdaw33]

Slimjet seems to be the way forward. Chico sings its praises and if it is good enough for him it's good enough for anyone. Haven't tried it myself yet, though.

[ToraToraTora]

no brave is a browser you don't need Chrome anymore, use brave.

[ToraToraTora]

...or slimjet

[THECORBYLOON]

Do the other two suggestions not block ads and are therefore contrary to Site Rules?

[Paigntonian]

How do I access Brave once installed. No icon on base tool bar..

[ToraToraTora]

windows 10? first shrink all your active windows, then press start and scroll down the list of programs and find it. Then click and hold and drag to the desktop, this will create a shortcut on your desktop. Then launch as normal.

[Paigntonian]

Tora: Thanks.

[Buenchico]

You should be able open any program on your computer from the Start menu.

To add a shortcut to a program to your taskbar, find it in the Start menu, right-click on it and select More > Pin To Taskbar.

However, despite of all the foregoing advice, pop-ups on your computer are far more likely to be associated with malware than with ads supplied by websites. If you've already got Malwarebytes Anti-Malware on your computer, run it now. I don't recommend a fresh installation of it though, as it forces you to take a free trial of the paid-for version, which has been known to slow some computers down quite a bit. Instead, download and run AdwCleaner (which is 'out of the same stable' anyway):
https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/
(There's no installation involved. You simply run the downloaded file directly, accepting the option to zap anything nasty that it finds).

[ToraToraTora]

"You should be able open any program on your computer from the Start menu." - yes I was just showing how to create a desk top icon.

[smurfchops]

What is best to stop pop ups on news websites such as metro and daily mail please? For Safari on my iPad. Thanks all.

[ToraToraTora]

smurf, see above

[jno]

dannyk, pop-up blockers aren't the same as ad blockers. Ad blockers block advertisements on the regular page you're on; pop-ups may not be ads at all, however annoying it is that they appear unasked.

[Buenchico]

^^^ The pop-ups you refer to, Smurfchops, CAN'T be blocked by any type of ad-blocking software because DMG Media (which operates both of those sites) have configured them to detect that such software is in use and to refuse access to them unless that software is disabled.

Like you, I suspect, I think that the level of advertising on those sites is utterly ridiculous. (Yes, I know that it's the ads that pay for the site but they've now reached such a level that it's hard to find the actual new content in between them, which must put many people off from visiting those sites in the first place). So you have to choose between putting up with grossly excessive adverting or not using those sites at all.

Sorry!

[jno]

Buenchico, is there a tablet version of the, erm, special programme for desktops that allows you to pause blocking... things... on an individual page while you're on it?