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    • fefrie
      fefrie last edited by

      I like yahoo.com. I hate the sponsored ads.

      I tried to use a css file to get rid of them, but doesn't seem to work. I tried using adblock, but I realized that adblock really slows down the browser, especially on start up.

      Any recommendations to block these annoying ads?

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      • lando242
        lando242 last edited by

        Well, if the ad blocker built into Opera 12 is slowing things down you might try blocking sites via your Hosts file. Thats a super old school way of doing it. A quick google will show you how to accomplish that.

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        • fefrie
          fefrie last edited by

          Yeah, I do the hosts file too. Maybe it's time to update it again.

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          • sgunhouse
            sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

            In 12, I usually look in the Info panel for whatever scripts are used to place the ads and then add those to the content blocker. No extensions, no CSS (though it will usually leave empty spaces where the ads would have been that way) ... but it's been years since I looked at Yahoo.

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