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Too many Pop up Ads on the Trains website???

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Too many Pop up Ads on the Trains website???
Posted by conrailman on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 8:32 PM

They getting to many pop-up ads on trains website lately??? Why?? Get them off the site NOW??

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 9:51 PM

I loaded a hosts file on my PC.  I don't get many, if any, ads at all.  Wonderful thing, and it's free.

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 9:58 PM

I am using "uBlock" and don't get any.

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Posted by Erik_Mag on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 11:52 PM

I set https only on Firefox and that seems to do the trick.

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Posted by croteaudd on Thursday, December 7, 2023 12:51 AM

Pop-up ads are now blocking my post proof reading!  It is intolerable!

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Posted by conrailman on Thursday, December 7, 2023 7:06 PM

I want get rid of all these Ads?? How??

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, December 7, 2023 7:55 PM

conrailman

I want get rid of all these Ads?? How??

There are plenty of ad blocker ads available - do a search.

Also do a search on "hosts files."  I like hosts files because they they take up about zero space and there's very little chance that they will introduce malware in the guise of blocking ads.

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