Wowhead ads: any suggestions on how to stop these?

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agreed just switched to this my self a few weeks ago

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I use AdBlock plus and don’t have that issue. I think it depends on what browser you use, some don’t allow that extension anymore. I use Edge and it works great.

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i just use the google chrome one. get ads but it’s not that many and usually isn’t an issue. i don’t pay to remove ads either which i think they do offer for like 99cents or something

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Paying to remove ads is racketeering as far as I’m concerned. The companies are basically running a protection racket.

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Clear your browser cache & see if that helps.

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So you’re from Australia

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So that google can no longer be the default search engine on FF? You really think they wanna go that route?

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Probably not but Google isn’t a good corporation (not that there is such a thing). They will try anything to protect their ad revenue. Even try to coerce a non-profit like Mozilla. Especially if they lose search priority with Apple. That is already going through anti-trust courts.

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setup a pihole.

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As others have said, uBlock Origin all day every day!

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Clearing up your search cache would help with those particular ads. Though perhaps we’re getting a look inside the mind of Kneeshooter? :slight_smile:

Aside from that using Ublock would work. If I recall rumors began surfacing for one of the original adblockers that they could be ‘bought’ to allow ads from certain companies through regardlless of settings.

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Have NoScript installed and slowly allow one website/domain at a time.

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Kinda funny that wowhead is full of invasive n malicious ads yet Blizz still pushes the site.

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If you’re seeing malicious ads, report them to WoWhead. The banners are controled by a third party site. They are based off of our internet history/cookies. WoWhead has little control over them. But if they never get reported then no one has any hope of fixing them.

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I use Firefox addons: Ghostery Tracker and uBlock Origin
they work well
/bows in respect

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Firefox is no better than Chrome after the deal they have with Google. Plus Chrome functionality wise Chrome is the best browser. And I say that as someone who has tried almost every browser and hates Google. :person_gesturing_no:

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Get a better ad blocker. I recommend Firefox with the uBlock Origin plug-in; it even works on YouTube ads.

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Opera browser will work very well, and even stops all of the YouTube video ad’s to the point YouTube gives a message that Ad blockers are against their Terms of Service.

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been browsing those dog treats again eh?

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I only use Ublock Origin these days because of Youtube, they’ll detect and shut down videos if you’re using anything else. I noticed that looking at WoWHead, Ublock Origin has the number of blocked elements at 427(!) currently, compared to a whopping ONE on this page here, and the number keeps climbing.

I’m guessing something got borked with the ad feed on their site.

Edit: I glanced over again, it’s now at 579 about two minutes later. Definitely something is broken.