For those of you who use Firefox or Chrome as a web browser, I
discovered a really cool "add on". Installs in seconds, no reboot
required and works flawlessly.

It blocks all the ads on the pages you visit that "blow up" and take
over the screen if you happen to roll over them with your mouse. More
importantly it also blocks the typical 30 second ads you often have to
watch when trying to view a video, either from a news source, HULU or
on YouTube. The ad part is automatically skipped and the video
starts at the point you are interested in with no time delay. No more
suffering through a 30 second (or more) advertisement to watch a 15
sec clip of some news or YouTube video.

Another benefit is that it blocks all the social media links (like
Facebook) from the web pages that you view, so they can't track your
interests if you happen to logged into one of them while browsing.
You *can* customize the settings if desired to allow some pages to
display ads but I can't think of a reason why anyone would want to.

It *does* allow small, static ads to appear but not the big pop up
ones that take over the screen. This was done purposely to appease
the people who pay for Internet advertising. Plus, Facebook is
entirely ad free. No ads running down the side of the page anymore.

It only works on Firefox though .... won’t work with Internet
Explorer. They also have a version for Chrome. A friend downloaded
the Chrome version this morning and reports that it also works
perfectly.

It’s also free.

http://adblockplus.org/en/firefox