Can anyone recommend an ad blocking program (free) that will stop those stupid pop up screens and video ads on web pages that are visited? What's the best one for killing all that stupid junk?
Thanks
It depends on how the ads are implemented. The "interstitial" type, like the ones on Forbes.com where they come up before you get to the web page cannot be blocked. The "reveal" types which suddenly open up in the middle of the column you are reading then close, are another type of ad which cannot be blocked (but the content can).
Need more information...can you post a link to one of the offending sites?
The "reveal" type ads that pop open in the middle of an article are annoying as hell. So are the pop up ads whenever my cursor comes near the BACK button.
Alas, there is no solution for those types of ads...yet. They trick you by not revealing the player and not allowing you to close the ad before it has played. The type of ad you described with going near the back button is triggered by the mouse passing over a region on the page purposely put there near the back button. The solution is to use the Backstace key instead of the back button. That shortcut is the same for "Back" in every web browser. Hope this helps:
http://www.howtogeek.com/114518/47-keyboard-shortcuts-that-work-in-all-web-browsers/
As far as I know, there is no solution for the reveal type ads within article copy.
But you're the IT king!!!