What you need to do to completely trash ads and unwanted page content is to run NoScript. It completely disables Javascript by default and only allows sites you whitelist to show images or virtually any kind of active page content.
There's always the host file patch too:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
NoScript is the best! Not sure how its a pain-- it really isn't hard to set up your whitelist and save it somewhere in the event you have to re-install.
There's a shitton of options and it gives you ultimate control over what is displayed on the page. I think disabling Javascript by default is the smartest thing anyone can do on the internet these days.
uMatrix if on chrome. Get that in your life. Not only will it stop this bullshit it will also educate the user a little as to how much stuff is loaded along with the actual thing you want. A lot of websites are more crap than content. But at least they load faster for me now.
I was starting to see some more ads on places like youtube, and then I stumbled across this thread and added some of the extensions or whatever to ublock origin and that took care of almost all of the ads that I was seeing. It seems that the arms race between ads and and blockers is still alive and well.
I have found Ghostery to be the best ad blocking extension out there. I just opt out of the option to send info back to the mother ship.
I also use Youtube Ad-block for channels that I don't support
Also for a more complete and low level solution anyone with a RasPi spare, get PiHole. A network level adblock.
It will filter out the ads before adbkock and others have to step in. It also provides stats on how much of the traffic would be made up of what content. Pictures from reddit put ads at 45+% of the traffic a lot if the time for common popular websites. Just crazyness.
Can you clarify that sentence for me I didn't understand it.
Okay I way over exaggerated, remembered it wrong. It is 17ish% of traffic being blocked average from these because they are ads.
That's a lot of crap to be filtered out
Sites are using java script now too open other pages. So I turned off java script as well.
Always had just adblock plus + strict pop-up blocker combo! Never had anything get past... some websites will still prevent you from viewing anything, but I simply avoid those websites. There are plenty of alternative sources for any given information. Some websites, like The London Review of Books, asks that I allow some curated ads without holding information ranson, and these I whitelist. But I have never had anything slip past adblock plus, as best I can remember. But I will keep my eyes out from now on.
I've been to few forums that used bots to post ads on certain threads. Kind of a scummy way to go about it.